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Psyche 
[March 
10. Eye about 75% surrounded with yellowish white, the whitish 
orbit being interrupted on upper part of temple; mesoscutum 
without a median pair of whitish dashes 
D. brunnea Townes 
Eye completely surrounded with yellowish white; mesoscutum 
with a median pair of whitish dashes 
D. alabama Cushman 
16. Diapetimorpha macula (Cameron) 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 17 females, 4 males: bentsenpark (Net: 
1 female, 19 III ’76; 1 male, 9 VI ’76; 12 females, 1 male, 2-10 IX 
76; 1 female, 29 XII 76); BOTANICAL garden (Net: 1 female, 16 
III 74; 1 female, 19 XII 76; Malaise : 2 males, 10-31 X 73; 1 fe- 
male, XII 73). 
HABITAT: Dark, damp woods; herbaceous undergrowth beneath 
Pithecellobium flexicaule; Celt is lindheimeri-C. pallida associa- 
tion. 
DISTRIBUTION: Va. to Fla. west to Tex. and south to Veracruz 
state in Mexico. 
GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION: Townes (1962, p. 384-387) divides 
macula into several subspecies, among which my Valley material 
agrees most closely with D. m. macula, heretofore not recorded 
north of Mexico. 
PHAENOLOGY: Flies almost throughout the year with peak in 
September. Valley records include 2 females for March, 1 male 
for June, 12 females and 1 male for September, 2 males for Octo- 
ber, and 3 females for December. North of the Valley macula is 
active between March and November. 
17. Diapetimorpha sphenos n. sp. 
(Fig. 9) 
Holotype: female, USA (Texas: Hidalgo County, Bentsen Rio 
Grande Valley State Park, 1-15 XI 76, Malaise Trap, C. C. Por- 
ter). (Townes). Paratypes: 1 female, 2 males, USA (Texas: Hidalgo 
County, Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park, 1-15 V 76, Ma- 
laise Trap, C. C. Porter; Valley Botanical Garden at McAllen, X 
73, Malaise Trap, C. C. Porter). (Gainesville, Porter). 
FEMALE: Color: antenna black with much dull to pale brown on 
scape, and sometimes pedicel and base of first flagellomere, and 
