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with some orange. Eyes dark. Wings hyaline. Ovipositor orange. Venation 

 dusky. Body practically hairless. 



Fore wings long and comparatively broad, their discal ciliation dense and 

 moderately fine, about from 20 to 26 longitudinal lines of them across the 

 widest part of the blade, but they are too close together for accurate counting 

 of separate lines. The marginal cilia are moderate for the genus, not short 

 nor long but somewhat over a fourth as long as the greatest width of the 

 wing, the longest about twice the length of the distal tarsal joint for instance. 

 The marginal vein is narrow, straight, about six times longer than wide but 

 not much longer than is usual for Polynema, not long in the generic sense. 

 The posterior wings are shorter, straight, narrow, along each edge with a 

 double row of discal cilia and also distad with a short midlongitudinal row 

 of about six cilia, the short line somewhat confused with the paired lines 

 along each edge ; this short row extends from the apex proximad a short dis- 

 tance. The marginal fringes of this wing normal, those of the posterior margin 

 somewhat over twice longer than the blade of the wing is wide and somewhat 

 shorter than the longest marginal cilia of the fore wing. 



Legs about as described for the type species of the genus ; tibial spurs 

 single, short, straight, those of the cephalic legs longer, curved, and forked at 

 extreme tip, forming a strigil with the row of rather sparse bristles beneath 

 on the proximal tarsal joint at base. Posterior coxae cylindrical ovate, longer 

 than the others which are stouter. Abdominal petiole curved, cylindrical, 

 slightly longer than the posterior coxae. Thorax and abdomen normal, the 

 ovipositor not at all exserted, the tip of it barely projecting beyond the end of 

 the abdomen. Body apparently without sculpture. 



Antennae normal, 9-jointed; scape subhemispherical, straight above, convex 

 beneath and from lateral aspect armed beneath with what appears to be a 

 row of about nine small teeth (in some aspects, notably ventral, there appear 

 to be about three of these rows of tubercles or teeth, side by side but not 

 visible in outline) ; the whole lateral aspect of one side of the scape has a 

 distinct scaly sculpture (apparently overlapping scales, which when seen in 

 outline beneath appear as teeth ?) ; scape longer than the pedicel but short and 

 moderately stout ; pedicel subglobular but longer than wide, less than half the 

 length of the first funicle joint ; first three funicle joints slender, rod-like, much 

 longer than wide, the first slightly longer than the second, about eight times 

 longer than wide, the third joint a fourth shorter, subequal in length to the 

 scape; funicle joints 4, 5 and 6 subequal, a fourth shorter than joint 3, 

 broader, 6 shortest, ovate, 4 and 5 cylindrical ovate, not rod-like. Club nor- 

 mal, ovate, abruptly larger, somewhat longer than the united lengths of 

 funicle joints s and 6. Pubescence of antennas sparse. (From 2 specimens, 

 5^-inch objective, i-inch optic, Bausch and Lomb.) 



Male. — Unknown. 



Habitat. — United States — Butler and Urbana, Illinois. 

 Types. — Accession No. 44,209, Illinois State Laboratory of Natural 

 History, Urbana, 2 females in xylol-balsam, i slide. 



