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especially centrally or in the midlongitudinal line; the second 

 funicle joint is the longest joint of the funicle, the third joint also 

 long, twice the length of the moderately slender first joint, which 

 is slightly longer than the pedicel. The distal three joints are 

 all distinctly longer than the proximal joint and all subequal; the 

 scape is not sculptured nor asperate; the club is rather short, 

 stout, ellipsoidal. Marginal vein broad and short. Posterior 

 wings without noticeable midlongitudinal discal ciliation, their 

 cephalic marginal cilia somewhat longer than usual, bearing two 

 lines of discal ciliation along each margin. The species is distinct 

 from any which I have seen, though its fore wings are somewhat 

 like those of the North American sibylla and perhaps somewhat 

 like the English flavipes, but not much. I have seen no Australian 

 species like it, but I have only two species of the genus which are 

 new species and which appear to be indigenous. The male has 

 never been described. 



3. Polynema terrestre Perkins. 



Described also fom Oahu, Sandwich Islands. This is an enor- 

 mous species of the genus, being noticeably more robust than the 

 preceding species, rubriventris. Mr. Swezey sent me a pair mounted 

 on cards, together with another male of the species mentioned 

 below (poeta n. sp.) which was mixed in. The specimens were 

 labeled "Polynema terrestris Perkins. Oahu, Kaumuchona, 9, 

 12.5.07; Olympus, d% 11.21.09. O. H. S." Both specimens were 

 from the island of Oahu. 



The original description agrees with the specimens, excepting 

 with the latter the tibiae of all of the legs and the scape were 

 more or less brown or dusky, the distal funicle joint (and the two 

 preceding ones also) in the female distinctly more than thrice its 

 width, at least five times longer than wide, the club distinctly 

 less than the combined length of the two preceding joints; also, 

 the longest marginal cilia of the fore-wings are distinctly less than 

 half the greatest width of the large fore wings, not more than 

 between a third and fourth as long as the wing is wide. The 

 scape is without sculpture; funicle joints all moderately long, the 

 second very long. The fore wings have a smoky line across them 

 at the marginal vein; the latter is rather long. The fore wings 

 are broad and large, larger than in rubriventre, their discal cilia- 

 tion fine and dense, somewhat as is reduvioli,.e&ch cilium, however, 

 rather long. The tarsi are noticeably clothed with stiff, short 

 bristles. The cephalic marginal cilia of the posterior wings is 

 distinctly longer than the blade is wide and at tip the blade bears 

 several confused lines of discal ciliation in the midlongitudinal 

 line. The original description of this species is certainly not very 

 explicit and is nearly the same as for the species gigas. For all 



