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small ; hind ocelli nearly three times as close to eyes as to 

 each other. Antennae dark brown, with about 30 seg- 

 ments. Prothorax wider than long, rather coarsely punc- 

 tuate ; slightly rugose ; front angles very broadly rounded, 

 hind angles narrowly rounded; slightly narrowed behind. 

 Legs brown. Wings of male short, not reaching over 

 more than two or three abdominal segments ; wings of fe- 

 male as long or little longer than abdomen ; wings uni- 

 formly subhyaline; veins heavy and dark. Sc reaches to 

 a point about half way between the origin of Rs and the 

 cord ; anal field of hind wing nearly as long as the entire 

 wing. Abdomen brown. Cerci brown, composed of 15-17 

 segments. 



Male. Eighth abdominal tergite raised into a rearward 

 pointing process which is bifid at the tip so as to form two 

 granulate tubercles ; each of these tubercles with a small- 

 er tubercle below; supra-anal process modified into a 

 double recurved process, the upper part chitinous, elbowed 

 at the middle, at the tip enlarged, and above with a me- 

 dian groove ; the lower part in the form of a hollowed out 

 sheath with a notch on the lateral margin before the tip ; 

 subanal lobes terminating in short upcurved spine-like 

 processes ; ninth sternite slightly produced into an evenly 

 rounded subgenital plate. 



Female. Eighth abdominal sternite not distinctly pro- 

 duced into a subgenital plate. 



Distribution. — Holotype, male, allotype, female, Mar. 

 14, 1908, Johnstown, N. Y. (Cornell University Collec- 

 tion) ; many males and females, Mar. 14, 1908, Johnstown, 

 N. Y. ; males and females, Fulton Co., N. Y. (C. P. Alex- 

 ander) ; one male, March 1, 1902, Washington, D. C. (H. 

 S. Barber) ; males and females, Feb. 12, 1906, near Em- 

 barras R. Coles Co., 111. ; males and females, March 3, 1903, 

 Plummer's Island, Maryland; males and females, March 

 25, 1920, Adams Center, N. Y. (P. W. Claassen). 



Capnella recta Claassen. 



(Plate 50, figs. 8, 0.) 

 1924. Capnella recta Claassen, ('an. Ent., 5fi:44. 

 Length to tip of wings, male, 3-4 mm. ; female, 5-6 mm. 

 Expanse, male, 4-6 mm. ; female, 7-8.5 mm. Length to tip 

 of abdomen, 6 , 4-5 mm. 



General color dark brown to blackish. Head dark brown, 

 smooth, wider than prothorax ; hind ocelli about twice as 

 close to eyes as to each other. 



Prothorax brown, a little wider than long, somewhat 



