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facials more hairy, cheeks more bristly. Paraf acials proportionately 

 wider. Possesses a very distinct facies from Huascaraya, yet, so far 

 as detailing the actual characters goes, the same description would 

 apply to both genera if not minutely drawn as to degrees of develop- 

 ment of the various characters. The genotype almost exactly simu- 

 lates Epalpodes rimacensis Townsend. Differs from Epalpodes in 

 lacking ocellar bristles. 



PAREPALPODES RIMACENSIS, new species. 



Length of body, 8.75 mm.; of wing, 7.75 mm. One female, Matu- 

 cana, Peru, about 8,000 feet, August 16, 1913 (Townsend). 



Differs from descriptions of Epalpodes equatorialis and rimacensis 

 as f oUows : Fifth thoracic vitta indistinct, obsolete in front of suture. 

 Legs rufous, tarsi black. Abdomen rufous; the pale golden polli- 

 nose vitta expanding over posterior half of anal segment, the anterior 

 half of anal segment black instead of posterior part of third segment; 

 the second and third segments with broad median blotch of black 

 forming a wide heavy black vitta, on which the broad but narrower 

 polUnose vitta is laid. Lateral edges of abdominal tergites blackish 

 along median line of venter. Tegulae watery-yellowish, tinged with 

 fuscous. 



Holotype.^C&t. No. 19449, U.S.N.M. TD 4178. 



EUEPALPODES, new genus. 



Genotype. — Euepalpodes arcuaius, new species. 



Differs from Euepalpus Townsend in the following characters : The 

 second and third antennal joints are equal; proboscis but little longer 

 than head-height, stout but not fleshy; cheeks fully two-thirds eye- 

 height; front tarsi of female a little dilated. Paraf acials at narrowest 

 hardly as wide as length of second antennal joint. Abdominal chae- 

 totaxy somewhat different, the third segment with submarginal 

 median short pair in addition to marginal row. Abdomen quite 

 broad-oval, anal segment showing rather strongly arcuate anterior 

 border. No vestige of palpi, not even bristlets. Strong oceUar 

 bristles. Basal aristal joints short. Eyes bare, and parafacials 

 pilose. The form of last two abdominal segments approaches that 

 of Signosoma and allies. Comes near Parepalpus, but has two pairs 

 of median marginal macrochaetae on second segment. 



EUEPALPODES ARCUATUS, new species. 



Length of body, 11 mm.; of wing, 9.5 mm. One female, Uruhuasi 

 Bridge, San Gaban Canyon, Peru, about 6,500 feet, February 3, 1910, 

 on flowers of Baccharis, sp. (Townsend). 



Differs from description of Euepalpus jUwicauda Townsend as 

 follows: Cheeks and parafacials with brassy-gray hairs. Frontalia 

 fulvous to rufous. First two antennal joints rufous. ScuteUum 



