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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MU&EUM 
  vol. 
  es 
  

  

  presutural 
  green 
  spots, 
  but 
  otherwise 
  they 
  agree 
  with 
  the 
  more 
  typical 
  

   specimens. 
  

  

  Genus 
  RUBA 
  Walker 
  

  

  Ruia 
  Walker, 
  Proc. 
  Linn, 
  Soc. 
  London, 
  vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  100, 
  1860. 
  

  

  BUBA 
  TARSALIS, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  An 
  orange-yellow 
  species 
  with 
  darkened 
  tarsi, 
  otherwise 
  orange- 
  

   yellow 
  legs, 
  and 
  infumated 
  wings. 
  This 
  color 
  combination 
  will 
  

   readily 
  separate 
  this 
  species 
  from 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  four 
  previously 
  

   described. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Eyes 
  broadly 
  contiguous, 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  scattered 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  no 
  well-defined 
  zone 
  of 
  smaller 
  facets. 
  Ocellar 
  triangle 
  black 
  ; 
  

   head 
  otherwise 
  yellow, 
  with 
  yellow 
  pile. 
  Ratio 
  of 
  antennal 
  segments 
  

   12 
  : 
  13 
  : 
  15 
  : 
  9 
  : 
  9 
  : 
  4 
  : 
  6 
  : 
  5 
  : 
  7 
  : 
  35 
  ; 
  first 
  and 
  second 
  segments 
  yellow, 
  third 
  

   to 
  seventh 
  inclusively 
  brownish, 
  eighth 
  to 
  tenth 
  black; 
  antennal 
  pile 
  

   black. 
  Proboscis 
  yellow; 
  terminal 
  palpal 
  segment 
  rounded, 
  black. 
  

   Thorax 
  yellow, 
  with 
  pile 
  mostly 
  yellow; 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  patch 
  on 
  

   middle 
  of 
  mesonotum, 
  however, 
  extending 
  from 
  suture 
  to 
  anterior 
  

   margin, 
  blackish. 
  Legs 
  mainly 
  yellow; 
  tarsi 
  brownish, 
  becoming 
  

   mainly 
  blackish 
  beyond 
  basitarsi; 
  pile 
  of 
  apical 
  half 
  of 
  tibiae 
  and 
  

   of 
  tarsi 
  black, 
  that 
  of 
  tarsi 
  quite 
  dense. 
  Wings 
  infumated, 
  with 
  

   brown 
  veins, 
  the 
  veins 
  and 
  membrane 
  both 
  becoming 
  paler 
  toward 
  

   base. 
  Abdomen 
  yellow 
  with 
  short, 
  yellow 
  pile. 
  Length, 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  ^Width 
  of 
  head, 
  in 
  micrometer 
  units, 
  75 
  ; 
  of 
  vertex, 
  30 
  ; 
  of 
  

   front 
  at 
  narrowest 
  point 
  (just 
  above 
  base 
  of 
  antennae) 
  20; 
  of 
  face 
  at 
  

   oral 
  margin, 
  27. 
  Front 
  shining. 
  Pile 
  of 
  mesonotum 
  wholly 
  pale. 
  

   Otherwise 
  as 
  in 
  male. 
  Length, 
  9 
  mm. 
  

  

  Types. 
  — 
  Holotype, 
  male, 
  Guadalcanal 
  Island, 
  February-March 
  

   1945 
  (Berg) 
  ; 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  57308. 
  

  

  Allotype. 
  — 
  ^Female, 
  same 
  data. 
  

  

  Paratypes. 
  — 
  1 
  male, 
  1 
  female, 
  same 
  data; 
  1 
  female, 
  Bougainville 
  

   Island, 
  1944 
  (Downs) 
  ; 
  1 
  female, 
  Guadalcanal 
  Island, 
  1944 
  (Rein- 
  

   schissel) 
  ; 
  7 
  females 
  and 
  5 
  males, 
  Guadalcanal, 
  from 
  larvae 
  collected 
  

   April 
  11 
  and 
  19, 
  1945 
  (Berg). 
  

  

  Genus 
  NEGRITOMYIA 
  Bigot 
  

  

  Negritomyia 
  Bigot, 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  ser. 
  5, 
  vol. 
  7, 
  p. 
  Ixxiv, 
  187T. 
  

  

  NEGRITOMYIA 
  CONSOBRINA 
  (BiRot) 
  

  

  Ephippium 
  consohrina 
  Bigot, 
  Ann 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  ser. 
  5, 
  vol. 
  9, 
  p. 
  208, 
  1879. 
  

   Negritomyia 
  consobrina 
  (Bigot) 
  Van 
  der 
  Witlp, 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Diptera 
  of 
  

   South 
  Asia, 
  p. 
  53, 
  1896. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  was 
  recorded 
  by 
  Lindner 
  from 
  Florida, 
  Guadalcanal, 
  

   and 
  Vella 
  Lavella 
  Islands. 
  

  

  