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base of clypeus, vertex yellow; palpi brown; antennae brow^nish 

 yellow, darker beyond middle. Pronotum brownish yellow, mth 

 fuscous-brown longitudinal stripe in middle and on sides; meso- and 

 metanotum broadly yellowish medially, browTiish on sides. Legs 

 yellowish. Abdomen yellowish basally, brownish beyond middle. 



Figure 4. — Kimminsia alexanderi, new species: a, terminal abdominal segments, lateral 

 view; b, the same, dorsal views; c, apical comb of anal plate, internal view; d, tenth 

 sternite, lateral view; e, parameres, lateral view. 



Forewing: Length 7 mm., width 3 mm.; apex rounded; membrane 

 very slightly smoky, practically immaculate in discal area; outer 

 marginal area down to the end of cubitus with alternate brownish 

 and hyaline small patches; the patches larger in hindmarginal area 

 from Cui to hindmargin. A rather conspicuous dark-brown spot 

 over the last crossvein of the inner gradate series. Longitudinal 

 veins fuscous, interrupted with short pale streaks; crossveins of the 

 same shade of fuscous. Hindwing sUghtly smoky with fuscous vena- 

 tion, which is paler toward base. 



Male genitalia: Anal plate very long and narrow, distally curved 

 roundly downward and then forward; apical part provided with a 

 closely set series of short teeth on ventrolateral margin. Tenth 

 sternite produced posteriorly into a large subtriangular lobe (in 

 dorsal view), ending in a short pointed dorsoapical process; lateral 

 "wings" broad, with a large lateroposterior process, which ends in 

 inwardly curved obtuse apex. Parameres slender, strongly curved, 



