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the obsolete first lateral suture. Condition (a) would appear to be that 

 nearest the typical mollis, judging from the expression " Thorax 

 noir en avant jusque vers la Ire suture laterale. " One male of condi- 

 tion (<r) has a black stripe on the upper end only of the second lateral 

 thoracic suture and the dorsal violet of abdominal segment 2 ap- 

 parently not reaching to the hind end of the segment, thus approach- 

 ing the type in these two respects. 



$ . The female of this species has not been described. Females 

 labeled by the collector with the same numbers as the preceding males 

 differ from them as follows : Black of the frons extending broadly 

 down between the antennae, but abruptly contracted to a narrow 

 median " isthmus " before again widening at the fronto-nasal suture; 

 nasus with a pair of small black marks ; pale antehumeral stripe at 

 mid-height half to two-fifths as wide as the black mid-dorsal (/. e. a 

 little wider than in the cT); black humeral stripe at mid-height half to 

 equally as wide as the pale antehumeral, forked in its upper fifth or 

 more, mesepimeral branch wider, curved toward the upper end of 

 the obsolete first lateral thoracic suture to which it may or may 

 not reach, humeral branch wider at its upper end which reaches 

 the upper end of the suture, a mere line or even obsolete when the 

 forking is deep, in the latter case of course isolated from the mes- 

 epimeral branch • a pale mid-dorsal line on the greater part of 3-5 ; 

 8 and 9 in addition to the inferior lateral black stripe have each a pair 

 of dorsal stripes reaching from the base to one-half or two-thirds of 8 

 or one-half of 9, each fused for the greater part of its length with the 

 adjacent lateral stripe, but with its fellow dorsal at the extreme base 

 only. Each feebly developed mesostigmal lamina appears to form the 

 anterior boundary of a slight obliquely transverse groove, which is 

 bounded posteriorly by a still lower carina, carina and lamina united 

 laterad, slightly divergent mesad, so that the groove is closed laterad 

 but open mesad. 



Abdomen 25-29, hind wing 21-22.5 mm - 



Habitat : — Brazil, Chapada, by H. H. Smith, 15 cf and parts of 12 

 (?) others, some number 164a, 123 or 128, some dated May; 13 9 

 and parts of 14 others, some numbered 164A Sete Lagoas, Minas 

 Geraes, May 3, 1908, by J. D. Haseman, 1 9. Carnegie Museum, 

 Pittsburgh. 



