REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 159 



SEMIOSCOPIS BRAUNAE, new species 



Plate 23, Figukes 139, 139a ; Plate 40, Figure 224 



Semioscopis megamicrcUa Forbes (not Dyar), in part, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. 

 Stat. Memoir 68, p. 244, 1923. 



Labial palpus white, second segment suffused with blackish fuscous 

 except for a narrow line inwardly and at tip ; third segment with sub- 

 basal spot anteriorly and a subterminal annulus black. Antenna 

 fuscous, spotted with white above on basal fourth. Head, thorax, 

 and ground color of fore wing white ; the head sordid, thorax strongly 

 infused with grayish brown and with posterodorsal crests blackish 

 fuscous, and the fore wing irrorated with blackish fuscous and black ; 

 at the end of cell an outwardly curved crescentic discal bar and at 

 basal third two spots, one above the other, black ; along costa and around 

 termen a series of blackish-fuscous spots ; before apex, subcostally, one 

 or two conspicuous black spots; cilia pale grayish white, with light 

 brown subbasal and subterminal bands. Hind wing shining grayish 

 fuscous, with a narrow fuscous terminal line; cilia pale grayish white, 

 with light fuscous basal band and pale brownish terminal suffusion. 

 Legs light creamy white strongly suffused and overlaid with blackish 

 fuscous except at joints and on hind tibiae. Abdomen pale shining 

 ochreous- fuscous, suffused with fuscous beneath. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe broad, short; cucullus long, narrowly 

 rounded; sacculus narrow basally and with a broad, strongly sclero- 

 tized expansion distally; outer dorsal margin angulate; clasper mi- 

 nute, pointed. Anellus a moderately small oval plate, somewhat nar- 

 rowed posteriorly ; posterior edge convex ; lateral lobes absent or indi- 

 cated by a few hairs. Aedeagus long, slender, narrowed at middle, 

 curved and terminating in a slender, curved point ; vesica armed with a 

 single slender, pointed cornutus. Vinculum narrowly rounded. 

 Transtilla membranous; lateral lobes mainly indicated by a few 

 hairs. Tegumen rounded. Socii small fleshy lobes. 



Female genitalia, — Genital plate narrow, slightly broader posterior 

 to ostium. Ostium as narrow as or narrower than portion of genital 

 plate posterior to it, bordered anteriorly by a strongly sclerotized 

 and dilated portion of the ductus bursae. Ductus bursae membra- 

 nous except for less than half the length of a posterior loop, and the 

 dilated part before the ostium; inception of ductus seminalis at 

 anterior edge of dilated section. Bursa copulatrix large oval; sig- 

 num a moderately large, narrow, transverse, toothed plate about 

 middle of bursa. 



Alar expanse, 22-26 mm. 



Type.—[]. S. N. M. No. 53118. 



