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with a distinctly rounded fuscous spot on the apical half, usually connected at 

 ■base by a fuscous streak extending down from between the areoles. 



$. Length 6.8 mm. Head: width 1.11 mm., vertex .52 mm., length .65 

 mm. ; eyes ovate when \-iewed from the side, sloping, the lower margin some- 

 what removed from base of head ; front broad, moderately convex, smooth and 

 shining, lower part of face pubescent ; carina fiat, delimited behind by a groove 

 which separates the black and broadly exposed collum from the vertex ; median 

 line of front pale, dark brownish to black at each side, frequently broken into 

 transverse bars ; base of tylus and a geminate mark on the basal half, above base 

 of antenna, dorsal margins of lorae and bucculae, spot beneath eye, and narrow 

 tip of tylus, blackish. Rostrum . length 2.28 mm., reaching to near posterior mar- 

 gins of the middle coxae, brownish, the apex becoming piceous. 



Antciiiiac '■ segment I, length .57 mm., scarcely reaching beyond tip of tylus 

 by half its length, black, sometimes brownish black; II, 1.71 mm., nearly cylin- 

 drical, more slender at base, not equaling the thickness of segment I, rather 

 thickly and longly pale pubescent, length of many hairs equal to twice the 

 thickness of the segment, black, frequently brownish black at base; III, .74 

 mm. ; IV, .56 mm. ; last two segments slender, brownish to black, pale pubes- 

 cent, many of the fine hairs equal to more than twice the thickness of the 

 segment. 



Proiifltuni : length 1.48 mm.; width at base 2.42 mm., anterior angles 1 

 mm. ; collar .8 mm., opaque or dull brownish ; disk moderately convex, black 

 punctate, more coarsely just behind the calli, lateral margins distinct, slenderly 

 carinate. nearly straight, narrowed until the anterior angles are little wider 

 than the collar ; calli moderately convex, smooth and shining, delimited poste- 

 riorly by an impression and coarse punctures, partially confluent but separated 

 by a pair of deep punctures; calli deep black, also an arc projecting forward at 

 the anterior angles, a broad piceous ray behind each callus extending to near 

 the basal margin of disk, the median line broadly, lateral and basal margins 

 of disk and just before the calli, pale to testaceous; propleura punctate, brown- 

 ish, surrounding the dorsal half of the coxal cleft black and opaque ; xyphus 

 slightly convex anteriorly, pale yellowish brown, margins prominently carinate 

 bordering the coxal cavity. ScutcUuui impunctate, convex, shining, pale to tes- 

 taceous, a piceous vitta each side of median line at base, the piceous color fre- 

 oucntly replaced by dark brown. Stcnniiii black or brownii-li black, opaque. 

 a small spot dorsally on the meso- and meta-episterna shining, basalar plate 

 yellowish brown ; ostiolar peritreme largely pale but becoming infuscated 

 dorsally. 



Hoihclytra : width 2.85 mm. ; moderately convex, margin of the embolium 

 sinuate arcuate, cuneus and membrane moderately deflcxed ; glabrous, shining, 

 black punctate ; pale brownish translucent to dark brownish and piceous, em- 

 bolium and narrowly at liase of corium pale translucent, clavus dark brownish, 

 more piceous on the basal half and at commissure, corium more or less piceous 

 either side of the cubitus on the apical half. Cuiiciis pale translucent, punctures 

 not evident except at base, apex blackish on the margin bordering the mem- 

 brane. Membrane with a distinctly rounded fuscous spot on the apical half, 

 usually connected at base by a fuscous streak extending down from between 

 the areoles, tbus leaving a large pale spot each side of middle and next to apex 

 of cuneus ; brachium infuscated, the infuscation invading the membrane each 

 side, larger areole rather elongate and not Isroadly rounded apically. 



