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except a small area on each side of segment 2 basally, the broad apices 
of segments 3 and 4 ventrally, and the inner margins, next to the stern- 
ites, of tergites 2 to 4 ventrally, are black. Bases of segments 2 to 4, 
dorsally and ventrally, with dense, whitish pollen, the areas broader 
and more conspicuous in the female; abdomen otherwise shining. No 
median marginals on segment 1. 
Types.—Male, Itaquaquecetuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 20, on 
flowers of Cordia curassavica; female, same locality, September 15, on 
foliage. The male is here designated the lectotype, U.S.N.M. No. 
57291. 
The description is based on the types. 
DEJEANIOPALPUS TEXENSIS. Townsend 
Dejeaniopalpus texensis TOWNSEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, p. 312, 1916; 
Manual of myiology, pt. 4, p. 65, 1936; pt. 9, p. 214, 1939. 
Leskiomima tenera (Wiedemann) CoQguiLLeTtT, U. 8S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Tech. 
Bull. 7, p. 67, 1897 (partim) (not Wiedemann). 
Genea texensis (Townsend) ALpricH, Ent. News, vol. 35, pp. 212-213, 1924.— 
JOHNSON, Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Oce. Papers, vol. 7, p. 190, 1925; Biological 
survey Mount Desert region, I, Insect fauna, p. 199, 1927.—WEsT, in Leonard, 
Cornell Uniy. Agr. Exp. Stat. Mem. 101, p. 810, 1928.—Procror, Biological 
survey Mount Desert region, IV, Insect fauna, p. 377, 1938. 
Length, 4.5 to 7 mm. Parafacial narrow below, minimum width 
one-third that at base of antenna. Lateral occipital plates blackish 
on upper two-fifths. Pollen of head yellow on parafrontals, whitish 
with a yellowish tinge elsewhere; pile of occiput concolorous with 
background. Antenna yellow; third segment with an orange cast 
basally, otherwise infuscated, more extensively outwardly than in- 
wardly, the infuscated area outwardly reaching almost to arista 
dorsally and about halfway to the base ventrally; length of third seg- 
ment about 0.45 head height, 0.67 length of palpus, and 2.5 to 3 times 
length of second; arista yellow, becoming somewhat infuscated on 
approximately apical half, its hairs concolorous and about as long as 
its maximum diameter. Proboscis yellow, labella reddish yellow; 
a few long blackish and yellowish hairs at apex of haustellum and on 
labella; haustellum about 0.8 head height, straight, cylindrical, some- 
what attenuated on penultimate fourth. Palpus yellow; three or four 
outstanding setulae at apex and one or two on ventral surface of apical 
half; length of palpus 0.65 to 0.70 head height; in the female enlarged 
on apical three-fifths, with maximum diameter greater than that of 
haustellum; in the male slightly enlarged, its maximum diameter 
subequal to that of haustellum. One reclinate frontoorbital. 
Thorax yellow in background, the mesonotum except broad lateral 
margins and the base of the scutellum, however, blackish; lower pleural 
sclerites sometimes darkened in the middle; inner mesonotal vitta about 
