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slightly fuscous internally and with a conspicouus patch of white 

 scales ; other segments dark brown except the basal ones and with 

 sparse basal whorls of dark brown hairs and a rather thick cloth- 

 ing of somewhat long, whitish hairs. Occiput thickly clothed with 

 golden yellow scales and numerous upright white and black fork 

 scales posteriorly, a median tuft of yellowish white scales at the 

 juncture of the eyes, another a little behind the same, and a well 

 defined larger lateral stripe of white scales inclosing a black patch. 

 Under surface of the head rather thickly clothed with yellowish white 

 scales. Mesonotum thickly clothed with golden brown scales, 

 there being a well defined submedian stripe narrowly bordered by 

 a line of scattering silver}^ scales, which latter are also sparingly 

 present in the sublateral stripes. Submedian brown stripes obso- 

 lete posteriorly, where there is a sparse clothing of silvery white 

 or yellowish scales. Pleura sparsely clothed with small patches 

 of silvery white scales. Scutellum sparsely clothed with golden 

 yellow scales, with a conspicuous median and a pair of submedian 

 groups of long, golden yellow bristles; postscutellum smooth, dark 

 brown. Halteres slightly fuscous apically, whitish transparent 

 basally. Abdomen dark brown with distinct basal bands of yel- 

 lowish white scales much prolonged laterally and somewhat so 

 mesially, the latter being more pronounced on the fourth, fifth 

 and sixth segments. Sixth segment slightly and seventh almost 

 suffused with yellowish white scales; eighth sparsely clothed. 

 Apex of terminal lobes dark brown. Ventral surface suffused 

 with yellowish white scales. Coxae yellowish brown, clothed with 

 irregular patches of whitish scales. Legs dark brown flecked with 

 yellowish white scales and distinctly banded. Ventral surface of 

 femora and tibiae yellowish white, the latter with a distinct yellowish 

 apical band. Basal band of first tarsal segment rather indistinct, that 

 of the second, third and fourth usually broad and well defined on 

 all the legs. Posterior legs with a well defined basal band on the 

 last tarsal segment, indistinct or wanting on the mid and fore legs. 

 One specimen has the fourth tarsal segment of the second and third 

 pair of legs entirely white, the third being brown. Tarsal claws 

 apparently unidentate. Wings clothed with dark brown scales 

 with many yellowish white ones interspersed; fringe pearly gray. 

 Petiole of first submarginal cell about two thirds the length of the 

 cell, that of the second about as long as the cell. Posterior cross 

 vein more than its own length from the mid cross vein. 



Described from freshly bred specimens from Nassau, Ap. 8, 1905. 



Male. Proboscis about two thirds the length of the body, biown 

 with numerous whitish scales near the middle, dark brown at the 

 apex. Palpi extending beyond the proboscis, a rather bioad, 

 yellowish band near the apex of the third segment, much of the 

 fourth and considerable of the fifth being yellowish white or whitish, 

 the other scales dark brown. Extreme base of the third and tip 

 of the second segment yellowish; plumes moderate in length, 

 yellowish with gray apexes; third segment capitate with several 

 short, stout, subapical setae and about one fourth longer than the 

 combined fourth and fifth segments, the latter two about equal. 



