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fore wing more pronounced. Hind wing fumated throughout, its petiole yellow- 

 ish; curved at abotit its center, linear, and with at least two longitudinal rows 

 of discal cilia, ver}' close together and central. Ovijjositor very slightly exserted. 

 Antennae 9-jointed; scape curved, nonnal, longer than pedicel, the latter 

 ovate, with the apical end truncate and serrated, and but two-thirds the length 

 of the first funicle joint. Funicle joints 1-3 cylindrical, linear, 1 one-third short- 

 er than 2 which is longest, subequal to the scape, and twice the length of funicle 

 joint 3, the three joints filiform; funicle joints 4-G cylindrical oval, wider, sub- 

 equal in length but 4 is somewhat longer than the others, which, however, are 

 somewhat wider than that joint; funicle 4 subecjual in length to joint 3, joints 5 

 and 6 each becoming slightly shorter; club long, undivided, cylindrical ovate, 

 longer than scape or funicle joint 2, and about equal the combined lengths of the 

 three apical fvmicle joints. Setae present, but not very numerous and minute. 

 Antennae longer than the body. (Fig. 2. Flagellum of female, the setae 

 omitted. The clul) is a little too long in the drawing.) 



Fig. 2. Flagellum of Caniptoptera piilla Girault, female greatly enlarged. 



(From two specimens, 2-3 inch objective. Bausch and Lomb.) 



Male. — Unknown . 



Described from two females mounted in balsam and collected 

 on a window in a woodshed, Urbana, Illinois, July 15 and 17, 1908 

 (J. Douglas Hood.) Several other specimens were observed July 

 17, 1908, on the same window suspended in a spider's web, but 

 because of their minuteness were lost. 



Type. — Accession No. 391 16, Illinois State Laboratory of 

 Natural History, Urbana, Illinois, i 9 in balsam. 



This species resembles closely in structure of the antenna! 

 joints, the wings, and that of the body, the type of the genus, 

 Foerster's papaveris but differs markedly in coloration, {papa- 

 veris being almost uniformly colored), in the number of discal 

 cilia of the fore wings, in the fumation of the hind wings, in the 

 longer, slenderer club, and in its habitus. 



TABLE OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Species yellowish brown, color uniform. 



Joint 2 of the funicle the longest funicle joint; scape about as long as 

 the combined lengths of the two following joints; fore wings with but a 

 single prominent row of discal cilia papaveris 



B. Species more or less black. 



a. Shining black. 



Antennae and legs "jaune-orange" clavata 



Antennae black, excepting basal three-fourths of the scape: legs 

 brown, excepting coxae; joint 4 of funicle the longest funicle joint; 

 scape about as long as the three following joints; fore wings with 4 

 longitudinal rows of discal cilia metotarsa 



b. Greyish black. 



Antennae concolorous, excepting first three joints, which together 

 with the legs, are pale clay yellow. Joint 2 of the funicle ths longest 

 funicle joint; scape not quite as long as the combined lengths of the 

 pedicel and first funicle joint puUa. 



