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226 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 257
orange-yellow spot on shoulder; tcgula with an oblique similar spot on
shoulder, inner edge with a narrow pale yellow straight edge, long
apical tuft mixed with yellow; meso- and metathorax mixed with long
orange hairs. Legs bright yellow orange, posterior tibia light bronze,
irrorated with purple. Abdomen purple brown, rather dark, anterior
edge of fourth tergite with a broad orange-yellow band, fifth tergite
strongly mixed with orange except anteriorly, sixth so mixed only at
the sides and with a narrow posterior edge, seventh segment strongly
elongate, bright orange yellow at the sides, anal tuft yellow.
Forewing pale yellow hyaline; costa with a dark fuscous-brown
streak from base to apex, limited by cell and vein 9; an attenuated
bright orange-yellow streak from base along costal edge, not reaching
middle of wing; all markings below the dark costal streak formed by
purplish brown, tinged brown-crimson suffusion; a rather narrow
streak along dorsum, gradually dilated towards base; a narrow line
along lower edge of cell and vein 2
; discoidal inwards oblique, with a
thick deep purple suffused streak; all veins beyond cell streaked with
deep purple, streaks thicker than along vein 2; cell filled with purplebrown-crimson
suffusion becoming thinner or obliterate towards lower
edge anteriorly; the same but thin suffusion below lower angle of cell
and irregularly here and there above dorsum; the same suffusion but
densely and regularly spread all over wing beyond cell, between veins
2 and 9, except between basal half of veins 2-5, where the wing is
semitransparent. Cilia concolorous.
Hindwing hyaline pale yellow, a trifle paler than forewing; edge
throughout with a narrow band of purple irroration; veins narrowly
dark purple, except discoidal which is transparent yellow, not scaled,
little oblique, almost vertical.
Female genitalia: Ovipositor long, top scelerotized. Genital segment
elongate, somewhat narrowed posteriorly. Lamella antevaginalis
with basal rods fused entirely together mesially and producing
an elongate sclerite, with rounded top projecting beyond posterior
margin of segment. Bursa copulatrix simple.
Material examined: Luzon, Los Banos (Baker), 19, holotype, genit.
slide 5301 (USNM).
Female, 30 mm.
Glossosphecia micans, new species
Figures 329-330, 708-709
Head with vertex dark fuscous mixed with pale
yellow laterally, face wliite with faint prismatic reflections, a big dark
grey central spot. Antenna thickened and flattened beyond base
(top missing) brown purple, jjaler toward base. Orbits pale yellow.
Palpus rather light yellow, upper side with a slender fuscous streak,
median segment at base above with a quadrate black spot. Thorax