LKI'IDOI'IKKA TINKID.K. C,( \:', 



I'-l.r.M'IA MORTKKLLA. 

 IM. 15, I-Mtfs. 



A single specimen has been found with its reverse. The insect is pre- 

 served lying upon its side, ami though the neiiration can not be seen from 

 the wing having l)een heavily scaled, the whole of the antemue and ni"M 

 (if the palpi, tongue, and legs are well preserved. The palpi are closelv 

 recurved over the head, the middle joint apparently of about the same 

 li nutli as the apical joint, compact but heavily clothed, appressed to the 

 front, reaching the summit of the eye, the apical joint, very slender and 

 pointed, directed at last backward, reaching the back of the head Antenn:e 

 t'ullv two-thirds as long as the wings, slender, naked, gentlv tapering. the 

 basal joint stout, rounded apically, not over twice as long as broad, the 

 succeeding joints uniformly cylindrical, about twice as long as broad. trans- 

 versely snlcate in the middle, as if made of two subjoints, relative! v a little 

 longer near the middle of the antenna- than at the two extremities, tin- - 

 oml joint three-fourths tin; diameter of the first and onlv as long as broad. 

 Tongue at least as loiii: as the middle femora, with no sign of summation 

 at the base anteriorly. \Vings fullv three times as long as broad, the apex 

 roundly but acutely angulate, all heavily squamate. It is dillicult to make 

 out what the markings may have been, but it would appear that the win^s 

 were LM'i/./.ly with an interrupted series of small darker spots along the 

 proximal half of the costa, and another series down the middle of the \\ing 

 on its distal half. The legs are not very long, the fore le--, >.nne\\hat 

 shorter than the middle pair and much slenderer, the tarsi considerably 

 shorter than the femora, and fnllv as much longer than the short tibia. 

 The middle legs are very much shorter than the hind pair, the tibia and 

 tarsi ot eipial length and each about three-fourths as long as the broad 

 femur; the tibia armed apically with a pair of excessively long spurs. The 

 hind legs can not be fully determined, but the tarsi are about twice as Lui^ 

 as the middle tar>i, and the double series of tibial spurs as Inn-- as tho-e \ 

 the intermediate tibia'. 



Length of body, 1 _'.."' ..... : wings, lll.-J 1 "" 1 : probable spread of \\i: 

 J.Y" 1 "; length of antenna', s""" : tore femora, I""" 1 : tibi.-e, 1 tarsi, 1 1 



middle fe ..... ra, _'.:;"""; tibia-. 1.7") ..... ; tarsi. I.7."> ...... : hind tarM. ;!..'>""". 



Florissant. < >ne specimen. No- > IM> and :' 



