- ( Body elongate, abdomen narrower than thorax. 

 ( Body short, abdomen as broad as thorax. 



ANALYTICAL TABLE OF THE SMALLER GENERA, 



ADOPTED FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN TRYPET^E. 



r A picture on the wings is extant, but it is never reticulate. 2 



1 < The picture is entirely or partly reticulate, sometimes altogether 

 ' wanting. 1 15 



„ ( Scutellum with six bristles. 2 I. Hexachjeta. 



I Scutellum not with six bristles. 3 



/ The third vein conspicuously curved forwards at the tip. 



3< II. Acrotoxa. 



'The third vein not curved forwards at the tip. 4 



. I The picture of the wings is on the rivulet-pattern. 5 



I The picture of the wings is not on the rivulet-pattern. 8 



VI. Stradssia. 

 6 



( Horizontal diameter of the eyes remarkably short. III. Stenopa. 



( Horizontal diameter of the eyes not shorter than usual. 7 



_ ( The antepenultimate section of the fourth vein straight. IV. Acidia. 

 ( The antepenultimate section of the fourth vein curved. V. Epochra. 

 ( Coloring of the body generally light, never black. 9 



( Coloring of the body black. 13 



f Upon the middle of the wing there are two crossbands converging 

 I towards the posterior margin. 10 



j No crossbands converging posteriorly upon the middle of the wing. 



I U 



C The third longitudinal vein is gently curved backwards towards the 

 end ; head not tumid. VII. Spilogkapha. 



^ The third longitudinal vein is straight, up to its tip; head perceptibly 

 swollen. VIII. Oedicarena. 



C Wings with four very oblique crossbands and with very oblique 



approximate crossveins. 12 



11 -! 



j Wings with crossbands which are rather perpendicular or dissolved 



in spots and with very steep crossveins. XI. Trypeta. 



1 Among these species is T. Lichtensteinii, the picture of which cannot 

 well be called reticulate, but rather spotted. 



2 Compare also Epochra. 



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