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brown toward the base, four posterior tibiae broadly yellowish 

 in the middle; front tarsi entirely black, not dilated; basal joints 

 of the other four tarsi whitish, with black ends. 



Wings whitish hyaline, no yellow at base, with very numerous 

 blackish dots and streaks, w r hich are partly confluent, so that the 

 wing may be said to be blackish with whitish hyaline dots; a 

 distinct, rather broad crossband, beginning at fore border beyond 

 the end of first vein, inclosing there two or three short hyaline 

 streaks, crossing the middle of the first posterior cell and sur- 

 rounding the hind cross vein, and ending at hind border at apex 

 of the fifth longitudinal vein. Last sections of third and fourth 

 veins straight and parallel. 



LUZON, Tayabas, Malinao (Baker). 



193. Euprosopia lepidophora sp. nov. 



Similar to E. fusifacies Walker, from New Guinea and Aru 

 Islands, but distinguished from it and from the other species by 

 the elongate antennae, which are produced to the mouth border. 



Male. Length of body, 7 millimeters; of wing, 7. Head in 

 front with a rounded outline, about as broad as high, much 

 broader and higher than the mesonotum; occiput black, with 

 dense gray dust, whitish on the little-produced lower border; 

 frons a little longer than broad, a little but distinctly narrower 

 at vertex than in front, its broad middle stripe dark reddish, 

 paler on the sides, with a narrow silvery border near the eyes and 

 with scattered yellow hairs; two pairs of black vertical bristles, 

 the inner pair only a little shorter than the external one; face 

 flattened, much broadened below, in the form of an isosceles 

 triangle, white, opaque, the upper angle and the base narrowly 

 red. Antennal grooves long, diverging, yellowish white-dusted, 

 spotless; mouth border narrow, less prominent, with a narrow 

 but complete blackish crossband; cheeks very narrow, linear, 

 blackish; jowls one fifth of eye, blackish brown in front, whitish 

 behind, and there with a very strong black genal bristle. An- 

 tennae long, reaching the epistome, entirely red; third joint 

 linear, very long; eight to ten times as long as the first two 

 joints together; arista long, reddish, shortly plumose on its 

 whole length, the feathers about as broad as the third joint. 

 Prselabrum circular, convex, shining black ; palpi broad, entirely 

 black, with long, scattered black hairs ; proboscis black. 



Mesonotum short, subquadrate, black, dark gray-dusted and 

 yellow-pubescent above ; bristles long, strong, and black ; pleurae 

 with dense pale grayish dust and long whitish hairs; on meso- 

 pleura a broad perpendicular band of whitish dust, which is 



