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and on the other hand, one of the male antennae is noticeably more 

 slender than the others though not as slender and as long as any of 

 the female antennee. Caution should therefore be taken in considering 

 this secondary sexual character as the differences may be due to dif- 

 ferent antennal aspects or to the mount. I hardly believe this to be 

 true, however, for everything here leads to the belief that the differ- 

 ences are real and true ones and they certainly agree with Arnold 

 Foerster's description of the male of the genus. The segmentation of 

 the antennas is now indeterminable in two of the specimens of the type, 

 a male and a female, but in the remaining male and female it is quite 

 as described. The pubescence of the antennae is the same in both 

 sexes ; the ring-joint is perceptible though exceptionally minute and 

 narrow ; the scape in the male is somewhat shorter than in the female 

 and slightly dilated distad and ventrad. Fore wings moderately broad, 

 built somewhat as in Ufens Girault but not pronouncedly broadened 

 distad, its apex regularly convexly rounded, broadest at the point 

 about midway between the distal end of the stigmal knob and the wing 

 apex, its marginal cilia short and close but not exceedingly dense and 

 becoming distinctly longer at the extreme disto-caudal apex of the 

 wing, there about thrice the size of the other marginal cilia but not 

 long, short as compared to the apical marginal cilia of the genus 

 Abbella Girault for instance ; in the male, however, these longer cilia 

 extend around the whole wing apex, and hence the marginal cilia of 

 the fore wing of the male cannot be described as short but moderately 

 short, shorter for instance than those of Trichogranimatoidea Girault. 



The marginal cilia of the posterior wings are short, minute, uniform 

 on the cephalic wing margin but moderately long on the caudal wing 

 margin, there centrally being longest, distinctly longer than any of the 

 marginal cilia of the fore wing, their greatest length slightly shorter 

 than the greatest width of the posterior wings at the distal end of the 

 marginal vein ; the end of the marginal vein bears three pale spine- 

 like booklets. The posterior wing is broad, subobtuse at apex but the 

 blade acuminate. Discal ciliation of the fore wing moderately dense, 

 short, arranged in regular lines but not very distinctly so some of the 

 lines being confused ; there are from 16 to 20 lines of them counting 

 around the apex from the end of the venation. A subtriangular por- 

 tion of the discal ciliation extends proximad past the stigmal knob, 

 entering the usual naked wing portion caudad of the marginal vein. 

 Discal ciliation of the posterior wing consisting of two well defined 

 parallel longitudinal lines near to the cephalic wing margin in the 

 blade and a third fainter line nearer the caudal wing margin and ex- 

 tending farther proximad ; the cephalic and caudal lines are not espe- 

 cially near the edges of the wing between the insertions of the mar- 

 ginal cilia but from their general appearance and position are evi- 

 dently homologous with the lines of cilia usually present there. Sub- 

 marginal vein of fore wing distinctly longer than the marginal, straight, 



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