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NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MYRMELIONID.^. 



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

 III. 



Brachynemurus Hubbardii, new species. 



Male. — Length, 46 mm.; expanse of wings, 49.5 mm.; greatest 

 width of anterior wing, 6 mm.; length of antenna, 9 mm. Very slender; 

 yellow, marked with dark fuscous ; sparsely hairy, more thickly on 

 abdomen. 



Face scarcely convex, yellowish ; above, a broad pitchy-black band, 

 notched in middle below, extending around the antennte on outer side ; a 

 faint fuscous line extends from centre of notch almost to clypeus ; furrow 

 between face and inner orbit of the eye, fuscous. Circumocular area 

 yellowish, except along depressed portion of the vertex, where it is dark 

 fuscous, and below, near maxillary palpiger, where there is a black spot. 

 Clypeus yellowish, with a few coarse black hairs. Labrum transverse, 

 rounded laterally and narrowed anteriorly, somewhat emarginate in front, 

 yellowish, slightly tinged with rufous, several coarse dark hairs on 

 anterior border. Mandibles piceous, black at tips; on inner edge, near 

 apex, a tooth. 



Maxillary palpi yellowish, slightly tinged with rufous apically ; first 

 two joints short, subequal, about as broad as long ; third joint somewhat 

 longer than first two together, perceptibly curved, enlarged apically ; 

 fourth joint straight, a little shorter than third ; last joint somewhat 

 longer than third, subcylindrical, truncate at tip, and slightly notched. 



Labial palpi about same length as maxillary, yellowish ; first joint 

 not quite twice as long as broad, enlarged apically ; second joint more 

 than twice as long as first, slightly curved, strongly widened and thickened 

 apically ; third joint about same length as second, fusiform, faintly hairy, 

 tinged with rufous around ocelloid spot and on tip ; the latter fine, 

 truncate, slightly notched. 



Maxillary palpigers yellowish, with some dark fuscous spots. 

 Labium, labial palpigers, mentum and gula yellowish, the latter clouded 

 with fuscous ; the mentum bears a long, coarse, black bristle and a few 

 black hairs. 



Antennae clavate, longer than head and thorax ; fuscous, articulations 

 yellowish, more distinctly so on basal joints ; clothed with very short, 



