106 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ ME'NSTRUUS 



Wings with an interrupted brown pattern which is ocelli form at the 

 base of the sector; thorax orange, unmarked; abdomen without 

 blackish bands on the anterior margins of the segments, 



ocellifera, new species 

 Polymera geniculata, new species. 



Size medium ; flagellar segments of the male antennae bino- 

 dose ; wings with cell M^ present ; tarsi uniformly brown^ 

 similar in color to the rest of the legs ; thoracic pleura without 

 a distinct stripe. 



Male. Length, about 4 mm. ; wing, 4.8 mm. ; antennae, about 

 7-8 mm. 



Rostrum and palpi light yellowish brown, the latter more 

 infuscated. Antennze very long and slender, at least half 

 again as long as the body, the flagellar segments with the long 

 outstretched hairs as usual in the males of this genus ; flagellar 

 segments binodose ; first segment dark brown, second segment 

 conspicuously light yellow ; third segment dark brown, light 

 yellow at the extreme base only ; remainder of the flagellum 

 dark brownish black, the tips of segments 4 to 8 very indis- 

 tinctly yellowish, this color becoming obsolete on the apical 

 segments. Head dark gray. Eyes dull silvery gray, the om- 

 matidia large. 



Thoracic dorsum dull light yellowish brown without mark- 

 ings. Pleura similar in color with a broad indistinct sufifusion 

 of brownish on the mesopleura, this not being in the form of a 

 stripe. Halteres pale. Legs with the coxae and trochant- 

 ers pale, whitish ; femora pale brown, darkened toward the 

 apex, quite broadly and distinctly tipped with yellowish; tibiae 

 brown with the extreme base pale ; tarsi dark brown, the pos- 

 terior tarsi of a slightly lighter shade of brown. Wings sub- 

 hyaline with a very slight grayish suffusion ; veins dark brown, 

 the costa more yellowish. Venation : Crossvein r far out 

 toward the tip of R-^ so that it is about one-half of that portion 

 of i?i beyond it; basal deflection of i?4 4-5 slightly arcuated, a 

 little longer than the crossvein r-m; basal deflection of Cmj just 

 beyond the fork of M ; fork of Mj -f 2 shallow. 



Abdomen dark brown, the lateral margin still darker, black- 

 ish ; hypopygium dusky yellow including the pleurites which 

 are elongated and darkened on their outer half. 



