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Wings subhyaline, cells C and Sc brownish, stigmal region brown, 

 a brown cloud at the origin of Rs, a square patch in the middle of 

 cell M over the vein Cu; base of cell M dark. 



Abdominal tergites 1-5 dull yellowish, 6-8 dark brown, 9 yellowish, 

 pale; segments 3-6 pale on the lateral margin; apical sternites dark 

 brown; pth and caudal part of the 8th light yellow. Hypopygium: 

 glh tergite from above, rather quadrate, the caudal margin with a 

 median notch, the whole posterior face provided with numerous black 

 bristles as in this group of species (flaz-icornis, et al). Eighth ster- 

 nite short, dark basally, pale reddish yellow apically; 9th sternite very 

 elongate giving the caudal margin of the hypopygium an oblique ap- 

 pearance when viewed from the side, pleural suture incomplete ; outer 

 pleural appendage long, flat and tapering to a point, fleshy, pale, 

 clothed with long hairs. (See Plate XV, fig. 8). Inner appendage 

 short, fleshy, concave on the outer face. 



Holotype. — ^Male, Asuncion, Paragn^ay, May 5, 1904 (Ve- 

 zenyi), in the Hungarian National Museum. 



Holorusia orophila sp. n. (PI. XV, fig. 14). 



Flagellum of antennae without bristles ; antennae short, the flagel- 

 lum bicolored ; mesonotum light brown with about five narrow darker 

 lines; wings with a square spot in cell M near the middle of its length. 



Male. — Length, 13.5 mm.; wing, 16.8 mm. Fore leg, femur, 9.6 

 mm. ; tibia, 10.8 mm. 



Palpi rather short, dark brown ; frontal prolongation of the head 

 short, nasus very long and prominent, brown ; antennse short, if bent 

 backward, not attaining the wing root; the first segment elongate as 

 long as the succeeding three segments combined ; flagellar segments 

 short-cylindrical, without bristles ; first three antennal segments dull 

 yellow; segments 4-10 dark brown basally, yellow apically, terminal 

 antennal segments dark brown ; head dark brown, narrowly paler be- 

 hind adjoining the eyes. (See Plate XV, figure 14). 



Thoracic notum, praescutum light brown with about five narrow 

 darker lines, one median and with two indistinct lateral stripes on 

 cither side ; scutum and scutellum light brown, the latter paler, yel- 

 lowish ; postnotum dull yellow, darker on the sides. Pleurae pale dull 

 yellow, unmarked. Halteres rather long, brown, a little paler basally. 



Legs, coxae dull light yellow; trochanters and femora yellowish 

 brown, the latter a little darker at the tip, tibiae and tarsi brown. 



Wings subhyaline ; cells C and Sc brown ; stigma brown ; a brown 

 spot in cell M near the middle of the length of Cu; cells R and M 

 brown at the base. 



Abdomen with the basal tergites dull yellow; 5-6 with a broad 

 brown median stripe ; 7 with the caudal margin dark brown ; 8 en- 



