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Type: San Jose, Costa Rica, Central America, March, 1915, 

 received from Dr. A. H. Sturtevant. Paratypes from same 

 locality and from Orizaba, Mexico (Mann and Skewes), the 

 last in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 

 University. 



Drapetis scissa, sp. nov. 



Drapetis medetera Melander, in part, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxviii. 208 (1902). 



Length 1.7 mm. Shining black, thorax with black hairs and discal 

 dorsocentrals ; extensor bristles, apical spines and spur of hind tibiae 

 small; antennae elongate; halteres white; third and -fourth veins 

 slightly converging toward tip. Head round, occipital orbits grayish 

 black, bottom of the shining black front two-thirds as wide as the second 

 antennal joint, face black narrowed in the middle where it is nearly one- 

 half as wide as the second antennal joint, cheeks scarcely deepened 

 behind, one-tenth the eye-height; palpi black, but overlaid with gray, 

 proboscis black; antennae ascending, second joint with a seta beneath, 

 third joint lanceolate, three-fourths longer than broad, the terminal 

 arista one and three-fourths the antennal length. Pubescence of the 

 thorax fine and rather sparse, six rows of about ten acrostichals, five or 

 six long, slender dorsocentrals, one humeral, one intraalar, two noto- 

 pleural, three supraalar, four scutellar bristles; a little pollen before the 

 scutellum, pleura shining. Abdomen shining, its hairs pale and long, 

 hypopygium of moderate size. Legs black, the pubescence pale, anterior 

 femora with one, hind femora with two preapical bristles, extensor 

 bristles of hind tibiae located beyond the middle and near the apex, 

 metatarsi not setulose. Halteres white, calypteres with eight pale cilia. 

 Wings broad, hyaline, veins pale brown, the second, third and fourth 

 sections of the costa proportioned 1.4 :2 : 1, anterior cross-vein at 

 three-fourths the length of the second basal cell, outer two sections of 

 the fourth vein proportioned 1 : 5, of the fifth vein equal, first posterior 

 cell widest before its end, marginal cilia uniformly small. 



Clayton, Washington; Oxford, Idaho; Hunter's Creek and 

 Rock River, Wyoming, the last from the collection of the 

 University of Kansas. 



Eudrapetis septentrionalis, var. mexicana, var. nov. 

 cf . A shining black species with yellowish legs, the hind femora 

 blackened apically, especially along the posterior side, hind metatarsi 

 blackish, palpi yellow. Head higher than long, the lower front, the 

 naiTow face and the lower orbits silvery pruinose. Pubescence of the 

 body yellowish, about four longer hairs in the dorsocentral rows. Veins 

 pale brown, posterior cross-vein before the end of the first vein, second 

 to the fourth sections of the costa proportioned 1 : 1.2 : 0.6, sections of 

 the fourth vein, 1 : 0.4 : 3.3, of the fifth vein, subequal, marginal cilia a 

 little longer than the anterior cross-vein. 



One specimen, in the U. S. National Museum. Collected by 

 F. C. Bishopp, at Tampico, Mexico. December 6. 



