40 Psyche [Aprit 



Paraspiniphora armipes sp. nov. 



9 . Length 4 mm. Black; head, except ocellar space, anten- 

 nae, fourth segment of abdomen, apex of fifth and ovipositor bright 

 ferruginous; palpi orange yellow; legs pale brownish yellow, the 

 hind femora lined above with black; wings with a pale brownish 

 cast, the venation dull piceous; halteres, extreme postero-lateral 

 corners of mesonotum and extreme base of wing, including veins 

 yellowish white. Front very slightly higher than broad, its bristles 

 strong; post-antennal pair approximate, strongly reclinate; lower 

 row strongly curved downward medially, the median pair con- 

 siderably further from one another than from the laterals which 

 are well removed from the eye; upper row straight, on the median 

 line twice as far from the lower row as from the ocellar one, con- 

 sisting of four equidistant bristles, the lateral ones close to the 

 eye; surface of front with scattered minute hairs. Post-ocular 

 cilia much enlarged at upper two-thirds. Cheeks each with a 

 pair of large bristles directed downward and a single small one at 

 the level of the antenna. Antennae small, oval; arista less than 

 twice as long as the front. Palpi large and stout, with strong 

 bristles; proboscis heavily chitinized, hard and shining, as large 

 as one of the palpi. Mesonotum rather elongate, its surface shin- 

 ing; one pair of dorsocentral bristles set at the posterior margin 

 with a series of six small bristles forming a row between them; scu- 

 tellum short and broad, with four large, equal bristles. Propleura 

 hairy, with a pair of bristles near the base of the coxa and another 

 pair below the spiracle; remainder of pleurae bare except for an 

 area of hairs on the mesopleura anteriorly above. Abdomen bare, 

 except at apex, with the second segment distinctly, but not greatly 

 elongated. Legs rather stout, the posterior femur about one- 

 third as broad as long; front tibia with a bristle at the basal third 

 and a series of five minute, but very distinct ones just before apex; 

 middle tibia with a series of five bristles on the hind edge, the first 

 near the base and the last almost at apex, also with two serial 

 bristles externally near base and with a patch of comb-like hairs 

 near apex; hind tibia with a series of four or five bristles along the 

 hind edge beginning at the basal fifth and extending to the apical 

 third; just outside these with a series of six, four on the basal half 

 and two on the apical haK; then with a third series of four on the 



