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bristly; second segment globose, shining, hairy but 

 not with bristles ; forceps stout, tapering on the outer 

 side, the tip prolonged in an oblique tooth inwardly, 

 anterior lateral edge with a few teeth; penis with a 

 well-developed stalk, distal segment globose with a 

 median terminal part curved forward between two 

 lateral members which curve back; anterior clasper 

 flattened toward tip, where it is distally expanded and 

 notched below a claw; fifth sternite V-shaped, the 

 arms almost concealed, bearing only delicate yellow 

 pubescence. 



Legs black; middle femur with well-developed 

 rows of bristles below, forming combs on apical half, 

 especially behind; middle tibia with two bristles on 

 outer front side, and on inner with slight, short vil- 

 losity beyond the middle ; hind femur with three well- 

 developed rows of bristles ; hind tibije with long, rather 

 dense villosity spreading both ways; pulvilli long, 

 brown. 



Wings subhyaline; no costal spine; third costal 

 segment rather longer than fifth; third vein bristly 

 almost to crossvein. 



Female. Front, .305 of head (average of five, — ■ 

 .290, .301, .306, .310, .317) ; three or four distinct 

 bristles near the eye on the lower part of parafacial, 

 from which a row of hairs extends up to the orbitals 

 (also present in the male, but more delicate) ; outer 

 vertical half as large as inner. Fourth abdominal seg- 

 ment sometimes narrowly margined with red at tip; 

 fifth and following segments yellowish-red, retracted 

 and without any striking features. 



Length, 8 to 12 mm. 



Six males and four females, Summerville, South 

 Carolina, reared from larvfe in cups of Sarracenia 

 flava and minor by F. M. Jones. One of these males 

 with spread genitalia has been compared by Dr. C. 

 H. T. Townsend with the holotype male (now spread 

 by Dr. Townsend) in the National Museum, and is so 

 labeled. 



