106 INSKCUTOR INSCITl.ii MENS'fRUUS 
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 -i mm. ; wing, 4.8 mm. ; antennae, about 
7-8 mm. 
Rostrum and palpi light yellowish brown, the latter more 
infuscated. Antennae 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. 
Tiioracic dorsum dull light yellowish brown without mark- 
ings. Pleura similar in color with a broad indistinct suffusion 
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 brovv'n, 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- 
h)'aline 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 R^ beyond it; basal deflection of i?4.f5 slightly arcuated, a 
little longer than the crossvein r-m; basal deflection of Cu-^ just 
beyond the fork of M; fork of M^ -)_ 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. 
