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Larvae from water in tree-holes and bamboo- joints. Mr. 

 Jennings has six records from tree-holes (Nos. 249, 261, 331, 

 335, 374, 295) and four from bamboo traps (392, 398, 399, 

 461) ; Mr. Busck has four records from tree-holes (127, 128, 

 173, 1,74), two from bamboo (166, 200), one from a wooden 

 box near a house (201), one from a tree stump (149), and 

 one from a hole in a banana stem (155). 



Haemagogus (Haemagogus) gladiator, new species. 



Head and mesonotum green, abdomen blue or violet, pleurae, 

 sides of head and lateral abdominal spots silvery ; dorsally on 

 the abdomen with distinct silvery bands at the bases of the 

 segments ; legs dark violet to black, the femora silvery be- 

 neath. Second marginal cell longer than the second posterior 

 cell. Claws of the female simple. Palpi of male about one- 

 fifth as long as the proboscis. 



Hypopygium. Side piece three times as long as wide, the 

 basal granular area small, with one seta in it; a slight setose 

 prominence at extreme base; scales on the outer half of inner 

 margin both long and narrow and short and broad ; all sym- 

 metrical and not mixed with spines ; a group of short setae at 

 tip. Clasper moderate, swollen apically, the spine still ter- 

 minal, although the enlargement is eccentric. Claspette with 

 slender sinuate stem, enlarged into a disk at tip, minutely 

 pilose and with one seta on the margin ; filament reflexed, 

 cleft, the two points similar and about equal in length, both 

 short. Tenth sternites narrow, large, the tip thickened and 

 hooked, minutely dentate. Ninth tergites undeveloped. 



Type, male, paratype, female, No. 24340, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Corozal, Canal Zone, Panama, November 30, 1909 (A. H. 

 Jennings, breeding number 39). 



Larvae from "tree hole near Kraft's house." Head hairs, 

 upper single, lower in twos ; body glabrous ; short abdominal 

 hairs distinctly stellate (tufts of 5 to 7) ; comb of eighth seg- 

 ment of many scales in a triangular patch, single scale long, 

 thick and rounded, smooth on the sides with minutely feath- 

 ered tip ; air tube short with conical tip, the pecten not reaching 



