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transversal s not well visible: ouly indications ofthe white bands; abdomen pale brown; appendages broken. 

 From what is to be seen ofthe tip oi abdomen, the specimen is male. 



Habitat : Entreprise, Florida, May 24th, by H. G. Hubbard, to whom the Museum is greatly 

 iudebted for interesting speeimens and other beautiful biological discoveries. 



rhis is, as for as I know, the only specimen of an Embia coli er teil in U. S. It is in bad condition, and 

 the description will have to be completed from other speeimens. Though the species is obviously related to 

 O.cubana, I believe the differences noted in the shape ofthe head and the antennae, and the remarkably 

 smallen -ize, justify the consideration of 0. Hubbardi as a different species, tili the contrary is proved. 

 Difference in size has been noted, but never so such an extent. I possess only of one species ei^ht speei- 

 mens, svhich show differences in size, but only small ones ». 



lOligotoma texana (Mel. 1902) (Fig. 62)]. 



Embia texana Melander, Biol. Hüll, ofthe Marine Biol. Lab. Woods Holl. Mass., III, [902, 

 p. [9. (ig. 2 und 3, Larve und 9. -- Id., ibid., IV, 1903, pp. 99-118, fig. I «nd 2, a, b <$. 

 - Melander, Friederichs, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, Bd 3, ujob, p. 238. 



Oligotoma texana (Mel.), in. 



Habitat : Texas. 

 Log. cit., 1903, p. 102 : 



« Male. Length 0""; length ol antennae 3 mm ; length ofwing 4,5""". 



Clear-cut, slender species. Body black, with violaceous or bronzed reflection; head, prothorax and 

 front femora castaneous brown, middle and bind Iegs sometimes also brown, but darker; black-villose, the 

 hairs variable in length and number. Antennae black, the individual joints pale on their onter lifth, seventeen 



FlG. 62. — Oligotoma texana (Melander 1902) rj 1 



Abdominalspitze von unten (vergr.) 



(Nach Melander loc. cit., 1903, p. 100, lig. 1). 



joints present, and these equalling a little more than one half the body-length, i. e., neailing to the end of the 

 metathorax, basal Joint stout, cylindrical, a little longer than wide, second Joint of less-width, quadrate in 

 profile, the remaimng joints elongate-pyriform becommg elliptical terminally, the individual joints about as 

 the basal twn; all the joints areprovided with stiff radiating black hairs. Palpi of same strueture as in 

 the larva, the maxillary palpi black, the labial reddish at the base. The lighter Spaces <>(' 



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