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immediately before the tip of the wing there is a blackish spot, 

 which reaches from the anterior margin to the third longitudinal 

 vein and covers the extreme end of the marginal cell; the extreme 

 end of the submarginal cell is not covered by it. It may be that, 

 in more fully colored individuals, this spot is darker. 

 Bab. Cuba (Riehl). 



2. E. piisio Loew; $>. — (Tab. IX, f. 8.) Viridis vel ex chalybeo 

 viridis, thoracis dorso albido-polliuoso, pedibus piceo-nigris, genibus, 

 tibiarum apice tarsisque totis luteis, alarum stigmate et macula suba- 

 picali nigris. 



Green or bluish-green ; dorsum of the thorax covered with a white pollen ; 

 feet piceous-black ; knees, tips of the tibiae and the whole of the tarsi 

 of a dirty -yellow ; wings with a black stigma and a black spot imme- 

 diately before the apex. Long. corp. 0.12; long. al. 0.13. 



Syn. Euxesta pusio Loew, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. XI, p. 299, Tab. II, f. 8. 



Metallic bluish-green; thorax and scutellum rather opaque, in 

 consequence of a comparatively dense white pollen; abdomen 

 shining ; its first segment of a dirty-yellow towards its sides. The 

 very broad first segment of the flattened ovipositor is almost as 

 long as two-thirds of the abdomen. Head of a reddish-brick 

 color ; the sides of the front, the frontal lunule, the face, including 

 the clypeus and the cheeks, are covered with a rather dense, 

 white pollen. The black hairs on the front are not conspicuous. 

 Antennae brownish-ferruginous, or rusty-brown ; third joint round. 

 Face rather short, considerably excavated ; clypeus but little 

 projecting beyond the opening of the mouth. Occiput appa- 

 rently altogether metallic-black, but the ground color is very 

 much concealed by a thick whitish pollen. Feet piceous black; 

 the second joint of the coxae, the knees, almost the whole latter 

 half of the tibiae and the whole tarsi dirty-yellow or brick-red. 

 Halteres whitish-yellow. Wings somewhat whitish hyaline, the 

 veins pale ; stigma of a blackish color, which, on its first half, 

 extends as far as the middle of the marginal cell ; immediately 

 before the apex of the wing there is a black spot, extending from 

 the anterior border as far as a little beyond the third longitudinal 

 vein, the tip of the marginal cell is also covered by it, that of the 

 submarginal cell, however, is not ; the last section of the fourth 

 longitudinal vein in its whole course, converges towards the third 

 and comes very near it at its tip ; it is not perceptibly arcuate. 



Bab. Cuba (Gundlach). 



