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Penultimate joint of hind tarsi obcordate, as broad as long. 

 Wings naked, whitish hyaline, veins pale yellowish, small cross- 

 vein clouded with brown, first vein forked before its apex, the 

 fifth (cubitus) forking slightly beyond the crossvein. Length 3 

 mm. Female. Tick Island, Florida. 



7. Procladius humeralis Loew 

 1866 T a n y p u s Lw. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 3 



Male and female. Eeddish, the humeri and the upper half of 

 the pleura white, the pectus and metanotum fuscous, the legs 

 white and black variegated, the wings bare, with a central black 

 spot which covers the cross veins, the penultimate tarsal joint 

 short, obcordate. 



Male. The abdomen white and black ringed, the fore tibiae 

 white except the tip. 



Female. The abdomen wholly black, the fore tibiae wholly 

 black. Length 2.7 mm. to 3.3 mm. Wing 2.5 to 2.7 mm. 



Head white, the disk of the occiput fuscous. The antennae 

 fuscous, of which the flagellum of the male is paler. The thorax 

 red, in the male opaque, in the female somewhat shining and 

 often more deeply colored; the collar, humeri and upper half of 

 the pleura in both sexes white, though the color is less pure in 

 the female. The pectus and onetanotum fuscous black. The ab- 

 domen of the male is black, ibut the first two segments, the tip 

 of the third and fifth, and the fourth and sixth except the base, 

 are white. All the femora in both sexes excepting the white bases 

 are black or pitchy; the fore tibiae of the female are of the same 

 color, those of the male are white with black tips; the middle 

 tibiae of the female are usually black, rarely with a fuscous ring ; 

 those of the male are white with black tip and base; the hind 

 tibiae except base and tip are white in both sexes ; the fore tarsi 

 are black, the first joint is white except the tip, in both sexes ; in 

 the male the base of the second is often lutescent ; the first two 

 joints of the middle and hind tarsi of both sexes are white, with 

 black tips, the remaining joints being wholly black ; all the fourth 

 tarsal joints short, obcordate. The wings are bare, subhyaline, 

 with a small black spot covering the crossveins and anastomosing 

 with a minute spot on the cubitus. Cuba. (Loew.) Fork of 

 cubitus sessile. (S. Henshaw, in litt.) May possibly belong to 

 Anatopynia.' 



8. Procladius tricolor Loew 

 1861 T a n y p u s Lw. Berl. Ent Zeit 309 



Female. Yellowish, the thorax with reddish ferruginous stripes, 

 fuscous marginate, the abdominal segments with black bases and 

 yellow posterior margins; the legs 'black-ringed the wings hya- 



