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Vol. XXX. LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1898. No. 11. 



NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELIONID^. 



BY ROLLA P. CURRIE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



IV. 



Brachyiiemurus brunneus^ new species. 



Male. — Length, 40 mm.; expanse of wings, 55.4 mm.; greatest 

 width of anterior wing, 6.4 mm.; length of antenna, 7 mm. Slender, 

 prevailing colour fuscous, markings luteous ; sparsely clothed with black 

 and white hairs, more thickly so on abdomen. 



Face scarcely convex ; lower part luteous ; covered above by a 

 broad piceous band which encircles the antennae ; furrow between face 

 and inner orbit of the eye fuscous. Circumocular area luteous, except 

 along vertex, where it is mostly dark fuscous, and near the maxillary 

 palpiger, where there is a fuscous spot. Clypeus* luteous, rather short. 

 Labrum transverse, luteous ; rounded laterally and narrowed anteriorly, 

 emarginate in front. Mandibles piceous, black at tips. 



Maxillary palpi of moderate length, luteous, tinged with piceous 

 apically, the fifth joint especially so; first two joints short, subequal in 

 length, the first one about as broad as long, the second less broad ; 

 third joint somewhat longer than first two together, perceptibly curved, 

 enlarged apically ; fourth joint straight, considerably shorter than third ; 

 fifth joint somewhat longer than third, subcylindrical, notched at tip. 



Labial palpi about same length as maxillary or slightly longer, 

 luteous, more or less tinged with piceous apically ; first joint about twice 

 as long as broad ; second joint somewhat more than twice as long as 

 first, slightly curved, enlarged apically ; third joint about same length as 

 second, fusiform ; tip narrowed and notched. 



Maxillary palpigers luteous, clouded with piceous. Labium and 

 labial palpigers luteous ; mentum luteous, clouded with piceous pos- 

 teriorly, with a long black bristle ; in front a longitudinal median black 



*One male specimen, labelled " Dunsmuir, Cal., Wickham," has a faint transverse 

 fuscous line or series of dots separating the face from the clypeus. The female sped, 

 mens have a fuscous clouding on each side of clypeus. 



