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erous but represented some interesting species. A few species 

 have been recorded in another paper but the more interesting 

 forms taken on the lower and middle Amazon are herein des- 

 cribed. A number of species hitherto known only from Guiana 

 have been secured b\" IMr. Parish on this trip. 



The t^'pes of the new species are preserved in the collection 

 of the writer. 



Teucholabis decora sp. n. 



Rostrum longer than the head; head black; mesonotal praescutum 

 reddish orange with three black spots; pleura orange with a large black 

 area on the mesepisternum ; fore and middle femora yellow basally, hind 

 legs entirely black; wings subhyaline with cell Sc, a spot at the wing-base, 

 narrow seams along the cord and outer end of cell ist Mi, and the wing- 

 apex dark brown. 



jf . — Wing about 6.8 mm. Rostrum long and slender, a little longer 

 than the head, black; mouthparts black. Antennae with the scapal seg- 

 ments dark brown; flagellum broken. Head shiny brownish black, the 

 occiput a little paler. 



Mesonotal praescutum shiny reddish orange with three black spots re- 

 presenting the anterior ends of the usual dark stripes; median spot cunei- 

 form, the smaller lateral spots more oval; remainder of the dorsum reddish 

 orange. Pleura orange with a large, shiny black area occupying about all 

 of the mesepisternum and the sides of the mesosternum; metepisternum 

 black. Median area of the sternum orange. 



Halteres brownish black. Legs with the fore and middle coxae and 

 trochanters yellow, the hind coxae and trochanters black; femora black; 

 the basal third (fore legs) to half (middle legs) obscure yellow; hind legs 

 entirely black; tibiae and tarsi black. 



Wings subhyaline, cell Sc dark brown; base of the wing, surrounding 

 the humeral crossvein and arculus, dark brown; a narrow dark brown 

 seam along the cord and outer end of cell ist M-:; wing-apex with a mod- 

 erately broad brown band, this including about the outer quarter of ce'l 

 2nd Ru the outer third of R3 and R^; the outer half of 27id M2 and M3; 

 veins dark brownish black. Venation: Sci ending before r; r in direct 

 alignment with the inner ends of cells Rs and R^; cell ist M2 irregular, 

 the distal end stronglj' widened, m arcuated, a little longer than the deflec- 

 tion of Ms; basal deflection of Cih about one-half its own length beyond 

 the fork of M. 



Abdomen destroyed by ants, only the black hypopygium remaining. 

 Male hypopygium with the pleurites short, stout, with three pleural appen- 

 dages, two of which are setigerous and with the apices acutely pointed, the 

 larger of these two with a powerful lateral spine and a fringe of 'ong reddish 

 hairs between this spine and the apical point; the third and largest appen- 



