﻿NO. 
  1966. 
  8YX0PSIS 
  OF 
  IvEOTROPICAL 
  LIMNOBIN,E— 
  ALEXANDER. 
  511 
  

  

  Wings 
  blackish-gray; 
  veins 
  with 
  long 
  black 
  hairs; 
  venation 
  (see 
  

   fig. 
  12) 
  ; 
  wings 
  metallic 
  in 
  lights. 
  

  

  Abdomen 
  : 
  tergum 
  black 
  except 
  the 
  genital 
  segment, 
  which 
  is 
  dark 
  

   brown; 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  yellow; 
  sternum 
  dark 
  brown. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Holotype. 
  — 
  Female, 
  Para, 
  Brazil 
  (No. 
  6316 
  on 
  slip) 
  (C. 
  

   F. 
  Baker, 
  coll.). 
  

  

  Paratype. 
  — 
  Female, 
  Igarape 
  Assu, 
  Para, 
  Brazil, 
  Jan. 
  21, 
  1912. 
  

   (H. 
  S. 
  Parish, 
  coll.). 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  In 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum 
  collection. 
  (No. 
  14927). 
  

  

  Paratype. 
  — 
  In 
  Cornell 
  University 
  collection. 
  

  

  MOLOPHILUS 
  GUATEMALENSIS, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  General 
  color 
  light 
  grayish 
  brown; 
  antennae 
  rather 
  short, 
  dark 
  

   brown; 
  legs 
  normal. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length, 
  4.8 
  mm.; 
  wing, 
  5 
  mm. 
  Head: 
  palpi 
  and 
  rostrum 
  

   dark 
  brownish 
  black; 
  antennae 
  dark 
  bro^vn, 
  rather 
  short; 
  front, 
  ver- 
  

   tex, 
  gense, 
  and 
  occiput 
  uniformly 
  dull 
  gray 
  ; 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  

   broadly 
  rounded. 
  

  

  Thorax: 
  light 
  grayish-brown; 
  mesonotum: 
  prsescutum 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  

   of 
  brown 
  hairs 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  median 
  line 
  ; 
  pseudo-suture 
  elongate- 
  

   triangular, 
  dark 
  brown, 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  lateral 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  

   sclerite 
  by 
  a 
  narrow 
  depressed 
  line; 
  tuberculate 
  pits 
  jet 
  black, 
  rather 
  

   far 
  forward, 
  about 
  midway 
  between 
  the 
  pseudo-suture 
  and 
  the 
  

   cephaUc 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  prsescutum, 
  closely 
  approximated, 
  the 
  distance 
  

   between 
  them 
  less 
  than 
  the 
  diameter 
  of 
  either 
  one. 
  Scutum 
  grayish; 
  

   scuteUum 
  Ught 
  yellowish-brown; 
  post-notum 
  grayish. 
  Pleurae 
  gray- 
  

   ish-blue, 
  darkest 
  on 
  the 
  mesoepipleurae. 
  Halteres 
  light 
  yellowish- 
  

   brown. 
  

  

  Feet: 
  coxae 
  and 
  trochanters 
  light 
  yeUowish-brown 
  ; 
  femora 
  light 
  

   'bro\vn, 
  darkest 
  apically; 
  tibiae 
  yellowish-brown, 
  tip 
  dark 
  brownish- 
  

   black; 
  tarsi 
  black. 
  

  

  Wings: 
  tinged 
  \vith 
  brown. 
  

  

  Abdomen: 
  tergum 
  dark 
  brown 
  clothed 
  with 
  long 
  yellowish 
  hairs; 
  

   genitalia 
  paler, 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Holotype. 
  — 
  Male, 
  Guatemala 
  (probably 
  Guatemala 
  City), 
  

   Cent. 
  Am.; 
  Sept. 
  10, 
  1902 
  (G. 
  Eisen, 
  coll.). 
  

  

  Type.— 
  In 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  ^Museum 
  collection 
  (No. 
  14928). 
  

  

  Genus 
  HELOBIA 
  Le 
  Peletier. 
  

  

  Helobia 
  Le 
  Peletier, 
  Encycl. 
  M^th., 
  Ins., 
  vol. 
  10, 
  1825, 
  p. 
  585. 
  

   Symplecta 
  Ueige^, 
  Syst. 
  Beschr., 
  vol. 
  6, 
  1830, 
  p. 
  282. 
  

   Idioneura 
  Philippi, 
  Verh. 
  Zool.-bot. 
  Ges. 
  Wien, 
  vol. 
  15, 
  1865, 
  p. 
  615. 
  

   Sym-plectomorpha 
  Mik, 
  Wien. 
  Ent. 
  Zeitung, 
  vol. 
  5, 
  1886, 
  p. 
  318. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  material 
  from 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum 
  there 
  

   were 
  six 
  specimens 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  determined 
  as 
  the 
  almost 
  cosmopoUtan 
  

   species, 
  H. 
  Jiybrida 
  Meigen. 
  It 
  is 
  very 
  probable 
  that 
  H. 
  macroptera 
  

  

  