Clie Canabian Entomologist. 



VOL. XVII. LONDON, ONT., AUGUST, 1885. No. 8 



MONOGRAPH OF THE EMBIDINA. 



BY DR. H. A. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



I. Oligotoma Cabana, n. sp. 



Olyntha? spec, larva. Hag. Synops. Neur. N. Amer,, p. 7. 



Olyntha Cuba?ia, larva, imago. Hag. Psoc. Embid. Synops. Verh. 

 Wien. Z. B. Gesell. 1866, p. 221, 223 (no description). 



Olyjitha Ci/bana, McLachl. Linn. Soc. Jour. Zool, vol. xiii., p. 381. 



Male, dry. Length of body about 8 mill.; exp. of wings about 12 

 mill. Head light brown, little longer than broad, narrowed behind the 

 eyes, convex above, without any impression, rounded at the sides, cut 

 straight near prothorax ; labrum large, paler, rounded ; antennae pale 

 brown (only 13 joints present) ; ist large, cylindrical; 2nd very short, as 

 long as broad; 3rd as long as ist, thinner, somewhat thicker at tip; all 

 following similar but a little shorter ; antennae and head densely clothed 

 with very pale hairs ; maxillary palpi 5-jointed, pale brown, apical joint 

 long, conical ; labial palpi small ; tip of mandibles black. Prothorax 

 light brown, narrower than head, somewhat enlarged to the mesothorax, 

 one half longer than broad, flattened ; before the apical third with a trans- 

 versal sulcus ; legs brown, paler on articulations ; fore legs with tibia and 

 ist joint of tarsus enlarged. Wings narrow, faintly rugose, very pale 

 brown, with five longitudinal white bands ; radius yellowish ; sector bifid ; 

 five transversals between the upper branch and the radius. Abdomen 

 long, brown, hairy ; appendages long, slender, hairy. The specimen is 

 carded, and the parts not very discernible. If there is a difference, the 

 basal joint of the left appendage is larger, and the apical joint of the 

 right appendage is longer ; between both above a short bent process, and 

 on the left side of it a conical lobe, short, open at tip. 



Hab. Cuba. The only specimen I received May, 1865, from Prof. 

 Poey. It is No. 8 of his catalogue, and was named as Olyntha probably 



