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Allotype, female, with the type. Paratypes, male and female, 

 with the type. Types in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. (No. 15136); one 

 male paratype in author's collection. 

 Rhipidia domestica amazonensis subsp. n. 



Like domestica Osten-Sacken but much larger and darker in 

 color, the thorax much browner, the lateral pra^scutal stripes 

 cur^'e distad at their ends, suffusing the lateral edge of the scutum 

 with dark brown; postnotum not conspicuously gray-pollinose ; 

 fore femora very dark brown; wings distinctly tinged with brown, 

 markings darker, better defined. Wing, fig. b. 



Male: Length, about 5.7-5.8 mm.; wing, 5.7-6.5 mm. 

 Female: Length, about 6.1-7.1 mni.; wing, 6-7.8 mm. 



Holotype, male, Igarape-Assu, Para, Brazil, Febiaiary 3, 1912 

 (H. S. Parish). Allotype, female, with the type, February 1, 1912. 

 Paratypes, 9 &, \ 9. with the type, January 23rd to February 4, 

 1912. Types in coll. Cornell University; paratypes in coll. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. and in author's collection. 



Explanation of Plate I. 



(N. B. The wings are all drawn to scale by means of the Cornell pro- 

 jection lantern and show the relative size of the species.) 

 a — Wing of Rhipidia multigiittata, sp. n. cf. 

 b — " " domestica amazonensis, subsp. n. .$ 



c — " " cramptoni, sp. n. cf. 



d — " " caLverti, sp. n. cf. 



e — " " schwarzi, sp. n. &. 



f — " " domestica angiistifrons, subsp. n. cf. 



g — " " domestica domestica O. S. 



h — Antenna of " calverti, sp. n. cf . 



i — " " " cramptoni. sp. n. cf. 



