234 ALBARDIA. 



NOTE XXXIV. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES 

 OF HOLOPHTHALMOUS ASCALAPHIDAE 



H. W. VAN DER WEELE. 



Albardia, u. g. 



Wings long and tolerably broad, nearly equal in length, 

 hyaline, not appendieulate. The anterior pair with a mode- 

 rately long and deep excision, in the shape of a right 

 angle, at the inner margin. Network open. Pfcerostigma 

 short, nearly round. 



Antennae very short, equalling about one fifth of the 

 length of the anterior wings ; club oval. 



Thorax robust, densely clothed with long slender hairs. 

 Prothorax without valve. 



Abdomen stout, short, with dense hairtufts at the sides. 

 In the male two stout lateral appendices and a very large 

 spoonshaped genital valve at the 9^^ segment, curved up- 

 wards and furcated at the end. 



Legs with the spurs of the posterior tibiae as long as 

 the first three tarsal joints taken together. 



This South American genus is quite distinct from Ha- 

 ploglenius Burm. and Episperches Gerst, by the very large 

 appendices of the male, by the shortness of the antennae 



Notes from the Leyden Miuseum, Vol. XXHI. 



