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Notes on American Trypetidse 
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the ocellar triangle black; the bristles are all dark brown. 
The thorax above is brown, shiny, covered with fine hairs, 
which appear yellowish or dark, depending on the light. 
The thoracic bristles are dark brown. The sides of the 
thorax and the legs are lighter, yellowish, the legs covered 
with yellow spines and hairs. The scutellum is yellow. The 
abdomen is marked above by two broad black subdorsal lon- 
gitudinal bands, in sharp contrast to the yellow medio-dorsal 
area and under-surface. The ovipositor sheath is broad, 
flat, trapezoidal in outline, black; it is covered with fine 
hairs. 
Fig. 1 . Blepharoneura hirsuta, sp. nov., profile of head. 
The wing is dark brown, lighter in the costal cell and 
toward the posterior margin, with the following hyaline in- 
dentations : a triangular area in the marginal cell at the tip 
of the first longitudinal vein, which reaches the third vein 
below; an elongate band which opens on the lower half of 
the first posterior cell, and extends above to the second 
vein ; two similar bands opening in the second posterior cell, 
the first of which reaches the third vein above, while the 
second stops at the fourth; two other bands in the third 
posterior cell, the outer of which extends across the discal 
cell above to the fourth vein, the inner reaching beyond to 
the third vein. There is a small hyaline spot in the second 
basal cell, and another in the anal cell. 
Total length, 6.1 mm.; length of wing, 6.3 mm.; length 
of ovipositor sheath, 0.8 mm. 
