1914.] NATIHAL SflEXCES OF IMllI.ADKLl'llI A. oM 



March (Van Duzoe). Clear Creek, Clear Creek Co.. Col., .Imie 11), 



1912 (Osier). Kirhyville, .Jasper Co.. Tex., Mareli 21, lUOS i E. S. 



Tucker). 



Bhipidia (Arbipidia) schwarzi .\lcsauUcr. 



1912. Rliipidia schwarzi Alexander; Bulletin of tlie Biooklyii Kiitoniulosiiul 

 Society, vol. 8, pp. 13, 14, pi. 1, fig. e. 



One female from Biseayne Bay, Dade Co., Fla., taken 1)\- Mrs. 

 Slosson. Three females from Braideutown, Manatee Co.. Fla., 

 taken in March, 1913, In- Mr. M. C. Van Duzee. 

 Bhipidia (Arhipidia) shannoni sp n. 



.\ntcnnffi .sub]iectinate, black; thoracic dorsum without a broad 

 pale margin in front; postnotum velvety l)lack; wings with a few 

 dark brown spots and with abundant gray dots in all the cells. 



Male, length, 4.9-5.1 nmi. ; wing, 6.7-6.8 mm. 



Female, length, 5.4-5.6 mm.; wing, 5.8-7.2 mm. 



Rostrum, palpi and antennae black. Head gray. 



Mcsonotal pra-scutum yellowish brown without tlistinct marking.s 

 except behind near the suture where there are two brown spots on 

 -either side of the median line, narrowly separated from one another, 

 a more linear mark on either side; scutum very light yellow medially, 

 darker on the lobes with a dark brown ring on each lol)e; scutellum 

 light yellow with a dusky mark on either side of the middle line; 

 postnotum with a deep velvety black triangle with its point behind, 

 the sclerite pale on the sides. Pleura; brown with a gray bloom with 

 two narrow brown stripes, the more dorsal less clean-cut, the ventral 

 one narrow, well-defined, beginning on the fore coxa^ traversing the 

 bases of the other coxa>. Halteres brownish yellow. Legs, co.xse 

 yellow, brown at the base on the outer face, trochanters dull yellow, 

 femora yellowish brown, tibiae and tarsi yellowish brown, the two 

 apical segments of the latter black. Wings light yellow with a few 

 large brown spots as follows: a large one beyond the middle of vein 

 Sc. smaller ones above the arciilus, origin of Rs, tip of .Sci antl a large 

 rounded spot at the stigma; paler seams along the cord and outer 

 end of cell 1st .l/., abundant pale gray dots in all the cells; venation 

 (PI. XXVII, fig. 23). 



Abdomen grayish brown, the pleural line narrowly dark. 



Holotype, cf. Plummers Island, Md.. .hme 14, 1<I13 i K. C. 

 Shannon). 



Allotype, 9. topotypic, August 18, 1912 (,]. H. Mallochi. 



Paratypc, cf, Cabin John, Md., August 30 (Fred'k Knab); 9, 

 Gatun. Canal Zone. Panama, December 12, 1912, at light (J. Zetek). 



