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Male. Length 2 mm. Antennae nearly as long as the body, 

 sparsely haired, light brown; 14 segments, the third with a length 

 five times its diameter. Palpi; the first segment narrowly oval, the 

 second one-fourth longer, more slender, 

 the third one-half longer than the second, 

 broader, the fourth one-half longer than 

 the third, slender. Face reddish yellow. 

 Mesonotum dark brown, the submedian 

 lines sparsely yellow haired. Scutellum 

 pale yellowish, sparsely setose apically, 

 postscutellum dark brown. Abdomen 

 thickly clothed with fine hairs, reddish 

 brown. Genitalia fuscous yellowish. 

 Wings hyaline, costa light brown. 

 Halteres yellowish, reddish brown sub- 

 apically. Legs reddish brown, the tarsi 

 slightly darker; claws long, slender, 

 evenly curved, the pulvilli shorter than 

 the claws. Genitalia; dorsal plate short, 

 stout, deeply and narrowly incised, the 

 lobes obliquely truncate, the lateral 

 angles greatly produced; ventral plate 

 short, stout, broadly and roundly 

 emarginate. 



Female. Length 2 mm. Antennae 

 shorter than the body, sparsely haired. Fig. 5 Schjizomyia 

 dark brown; 14 segm.ents, the third with m a c r o f i ra.^Sixth an- 

 a length five times its diameter. Palpi; tennal segment ,of male, 

 the first segment broadly oval, the second enlarged (original) 

 longer, nearly as stout, the third one-half 



longer than the second, more slender, the fourth nearly twice the 

 length of the third, more slender. Other characters nearly as in the 

 male. Type Cecid. 855. 



Schizomyia ipomoeae Felt 

 ^'1910 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 21:160-61 



This interesting species, described elsewhere, was reared in large 

 numbers by William H. Patterson of St Vincent, B. W. L, from 

 flower buds of Ipom.oea. It is m.ost easily distinguished from. Amer- 

 ican forms by its small size, the reddish brown abdomen and in 

 particular by the varicolored antennae, the segments basally being 

 a more or less distinct yellowish. 



Larva. Length 3 mm, rather stout, yellowish or yellowish orange. 

 Head small ; antennae rather long, stout ; breastbone well chitinized, 

 bidentate, tapering and somewhat obsolescent. Skin coarsely sha- 

 greened. Posterior extremity broadly rounded. 



