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rather pear-sha23ed, shining yellow; in side view it 

 has at the apex a pair of very delicate, almost hair- 

 like small processes curved backward; just outside of 

 these are two short, very slender yellow processes 

 curving around in a semicircle ; in front of these, aris- 

 ing from the middle of the segment, are two stout 

 brown lobes covered on the front and outer sides w^ith 

 a dense brush of spines. Fifth sternite yellowish 

 brown, not very widely excised along its inner mar- 

 gin, with a brush of short stiff spines. 



Legs black; middle femur without spines; mid- 

 dle tibia on outer side with two bristles, the lower one 

 strikingly long; hind tibia without villosity; two pos- 

 terior bristles at its middle are strikingly long. 



Wings hyaline; first and third veins hairy; a 

 very short costal spine ; third costal segment consider- 

 ably shorter than fifth. Epaulet black. 



Female. Front .362 of head (average of fiA^e, — 

 .340, .351, .360, .378, .379). Parafacials with very 

 small and inconspicuous hairs. Proboscis shining 

 black, rather swollen in the middle. Genital seg- 

 ment red, the orifice oval and fringed with hairs. 



Length 6-10 mm. 



IS^umerous males and females. New Bedford, 

 Horse Neck Beach and Woods Hole, Mass.; Oak 

 Island, N. Y. ; Malaga, Clementon and Manahaw- 

 kin, N. J.; Beaufort, N. C, 4 specimens bred from 

 terrapin eggs by W. P. Hay, issued Sept. 29, 191.5; 

 College Park, Md.; Virginia Beach, Va.; Columbia, 

 S. C, "Puparium found in tunnel of D. saccharalis, 

 Luginbill"; Tifton, Ga. ; Opelousas, La.; La Fayette 

 and Vincennes, Ind. ; Lawrence, Kan. ; Brookings, S. 

 Dak., and Colorado. 



Holotvpe.— Male, No. 20530, U. S. N. M., from 

 Oak Id., N. Y. 



Allotype.— Female, No. 20530, U. S. N. M., 

 from Virginia Beach, Va. 



