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the tip of the femora and the tibia? clay-yellow, the latter some- 

 times brownish-yellow ; tarsi brown, the posterior ones paler afc- 

 the basis. The first segment of the flattened ovipositor black. 

 The wings of the same outline as those of E. rufipes, but the 

 veins at the basis and in the vicinity of the anterior margin less 

 yellow; the small crossvein is far beyond the middle of the discal 

 cell, and hence it is less distant from the posterior crossvein ; the 

 fifth longitudinal vein is interrupted at a somewhat greater 

 distance from the posterior margin of the wing and the last 

 section of the fourth vein converges a little more towards the 

 third ; the blackish spot at the apex of the wing is perceptibly 

 larger, so that it occupies more than one-fourth of the length of 

 the wing. All the rest as in E. rufipes. 

 Nab. Cuba (Gundlach). 



Second Section: RICHARDINA. 

 Gen. I. CONICEPS nov. gen. 



Charact. Head in shape like a long, somewhat flattened cone; Front 



rather hroad, eyes rather distant from the posterior edge of the 



head ; their horizontal diameter somewhat longer than the vertical 



one. 

 The first two antennal joints short, the third elongated and of equal 



breadth , arista bare. 

 The metathoracic bristle indicated only by a hardly perceptible little 



hair ; prothoracic bristle not extant. 

 Scutellum with two bristles. 

 Abdomen slender and elongated. 

 femora not incrassated, unarmed ; the under side of the hind ones 



with some rather stiff bristles. 

 Wings : posterior angle of the anal cell abbreviated ; crossveins not 



approximated; the smaller one on the middle of the discal cell; 



the third and fourth longitudinal veins parallel. 



The present genus is very like Eumetopia on account of its 

 narrow, elongated shape and its strongly projecting front. I 

 place it here in order to bring it as near as possible to Eumetopia, 

 although I am far from considering it as a typical genus of the 

 group Eichardina. It is distinguished from Eumetopia not only 

 by the abbreviated angle of the anal cell, but also by the still 

 more projecting forehead, by the somewhat turgid, cushion- 

 shaped occiput, and by the comparatively shorter, but broader 

 wings. 



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