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the second posterior cell, its base nearer the base of the wing than 

 that of the second posterior cell, its stem about half the length of 

 the cell ; stem of the second posterior nearly as long as the cell ; 

 posterior cross-vein twice its own length distant from the mid. 



Hal teres pale. 



Length. — 4 • 5 to 5 mm. 



Habitat. — Newcastle, Jamaica, W.I. (Colonel Loscombe). 



Time of capture. — July. 



Observations. — Two ? s sent by Dr. Grabham, and collected 

 by Colonel Loscombe. The species can at once be told from 

 Howardina walkeri by its golden-scaled lines and sides and the 

 hind legs having only two, not three, basal white bands. 



Howardina chrysolineata. n. sp. 



Head deep brown, pale behind and around the eyes ; proboscis 

 broadly pale banded. Thorax rich brown with a narrow median 

 golden line, a shorter lateral one on each side and two curved 

 ones at the sides behind. Scutellum dark with a median pale 

 line. Abdomen deep brown, unhanded, with basal lateral white 

 spots. Legs with basal pale bands on the mid and hind pairs. 



9 . Head black with narrow-curved pale scales at the back 

 and extending to the eyes, laterally the flat scales are black, 

 except around the eyes where they are pale creamy -yellow and 

 some white ones at the sides ; upright forked scales black ; 

 proboscis pale creamy with a narrow dark basal band and a broad 

 dark apical one ; palpi black, pale scaled at the apex ; two 

 median pale bristles projecting forwards between the eyes, other 

 bristles dark. Antennae deep brown, internodes hairy. 



Thorax deep brown with small narrow-curved rich brown 

 scales, a median thin line of golden scales, a short one on each 

 side in front and two curved ones on each side behind just in 

 front of the roots of the wings, where is also a small patch of 

 pale scales ; chaetae deep brown ; scutellum pale brown with small 

 flat dark scales, a median line of narrow-curved ones to the 

 median Lobe ; four brown chaetae to the mid lobe of the scutellum ; 

 metanotum brown ; pleurae deep brown with flat white scales. 



Abdomen deep brown unhanded with basal white lateral 

 spots, venter with basal white bands ; posterior border-bristles 

 pale golden. 



Legs brown, coxae pale ; fore legs unbanded, apex of femora 

 and tibiae pale ; in the mid legs a narrow pale band at the base 



