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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol.98 
  

  

  Honduras: 
  Zamorano, 
  December 
  14 
  (Vidales). 
  

   TVpe— 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  58536. 
  

  

  Easily 
  known 
  by 
  the 
  rough 
  mesonotum 
  and 
  markings 
  of 
  first 
  ter- 
  

   gite, 
  which 
  are 
  entirely 
  different 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  E. 
  albopictus. 
  

  

  Genus 
  TRIEPEOLUS 
  Robertson 
  

  

  TRIEPEOLUS 
  ANTIGUENSIS. 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length 
  about 
  9.5 
  mm.; 
  markings 
  white, 
  silvery 
  white 
  on 
  

   face, 
  somewhat 
  flavescent 
  on 
  abdomen; 
  legs 
  and 
  antennae 
  black, 
  

   small 
  joints 
  of 
  tarsi 
  brownish; 
  upper 
  border 
  of 
  prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  

   band 
  of 
  tomentum, 
  which 
  extends 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  around 
  tubercles; 
  

   mesonotum 
  dull, 
  with 
  two 
  parallel 
  light 
  bands 
  on 
  anterior 
  half, 
  and 
  

   a 
  rather 
  weak 
  band 
  along 
  sides 
  and 
  posterior 
  margin; 
  scutellum 
  dull, 
  

   somewhat 
  bigibbous, 
  the 
  axillary 
  spurs 
  short; 
  tegulae 
  shining, 
  brown- 
  

   ish; 
  wings 
  dusky 
  hyaline; 
  first 
  recurrent 
  nervure 
  joining 
  middle 
  of 
  

   second 
  submarginal 
  cell; 
  legs 
  with 
  white 
  hair, 
  conspicuous 
  on 
  hind 
  

   knees, 
  and 
  base 
  and 
  apex 
  of 
  middle 
  tibiae; 
  first 
  tergite 
  with 
  broad 
  

   bands 
  of 
  pale 
  tomentum 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  apex, 
  the 
  basal 
  one 
  narrowly 
  

   interrupted, 
  the 
  apical 
  one 
  broadly, 
  these 
  bands 
  narrowly 
  meeting 
  

   at 
  sides; 
  band 
  on 
  second 
  tergite 
  narrowly 
  interrupted, 
  those 
  on 
  third 
  

   to 
  sixth 
  entire; 
  apical 
  plate 
  long, 
  parallel-sided, 
  black. 
  

  

  Guatemala: 
  Antigua, 
  December 
  26 
  (A. 
  Pelen). 
  

  

  Type.— 
  U.S.N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  58537. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  white 
  markings 
  this 
  resembles 
  T. 
  intrepidus 
  Smith, 
  but 
  the 
  

   absence 
  of 
  ferruginous 
  color 
  distinguishes 
  it. 
  

  

  TEIEPEOLUS 
  BILINEATUS. 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Female 
  (type). 
  — 
  About 
  10 
  mm. 
  long; 
  markings 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  

   rather 
  dull 
  white, 
  of 
  abdomen 
  pale 
  yellow; 
  tegument 
  of 
  head 
  all 
  

   black, 
  but 
  base 
  of 
  flagellum 
  red; 
  tubercles 
  and 
  tegulae 
  also 
  red; 
  white 
  

   pubescence 
  on 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  clypeus 
  and 
  between 
  antennae 
  and 
  orbits; 
  

   the 
  light 
  markings 
  of 
  thorax 
  consist 
  of 
  a 
  narrow 
  band 
  on 
  upper 
  margin 
  

   of 
  pronotum, 
  two 
  parallel 
  discal 
  stripes 
  on 
  mesonotum, 
  reaching 
  about 
  

   halfway 
  from 
  the 
  front, 
  narrow 
  marginal 
  bands 
  on 
  mesonotum, 
  band 
  

   on 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  scutellum, 
  narrower 
  one 
  on 
  postscutellum, 
  rather 
  

   broad 
  vertical 
  stripes 
  at 
  sides 
  of 
  metathorax 
  and 
  a 
  transverse 
  band 
  

   on 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  mesopleura; 
  wings 
  reddish, 
  slightly 
  dusky 
  at 
  apex; 
  

   femora 
  black, 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  dusky 
  red, 
  spurs 
  black; 
  mesonotum 
  

   dull; 
  light 
  markings 
  of 
  abdomen 
  consisting 
  of 
  large 
  curved 
  patches, 
  

   widely 
  separated, 
  on 
  base 
  of 
  first 
  tergite, 
  apical 
  bands 
  on 
  tergites 
  

   2 
  to 
  4, 
  the 
  first 
  two 
  broad; 
  apex 
  of 
  abdomen 
  slightly 
  reddish; 
  sternites 
  

   2 
  to 
  4 
  with 
  fine 
  pubescence, 
  appearing 
  grayish. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Resembles 
  the 
  female; 
  abdomen 
  with 
  five 
  bands, 
  four 
  

   yellowish, 
  the 
  last 
  whitish; 
  fourth 
  and 
  fifth 
  sternites 
  with 
  fringes 
  of 
  

   curved 
  hairs 
  ; 
  apex 
  of 
  wings 
  darker. 
  

  

  