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Abdomen smoothly clothed with scnles, without crests. 



Copulatory male apparatus (fig. 19) symmetrical; uncus long, simple, 

 almost streight; valvae oval; harpes consist only of a strong clasper; penis 

 long and bent. Female genital apparatus (fig. '20): bursa copulatrix bag- 

 shaped with a small ai)pendix, from Avhich emerges the ductus semi- 

 nalis; ductus bursae long and broad, with a fold: ductus seminalis for- 

 ming a small bulla near aperture; receptaculum seminis and glandula 

 receptaculi small; glandulae sel^aceae small, the common bulla large; 

 ductus seminalis and ductus spiralis entering the oviductus communis 

 very far from vaginal aperture; apophyses on last abdominal segment 

 exceedingly long; last segment l)earing on ventral side a pivot beneath 

 each valvula^). 



The tyi)e is AiiijilrditJiild iiiirifica E r s с h. 



Group A. Frons with a conical horny prominence. 



Anydrophila mirifica R r s с h 



Euclldid Mirifica E r s с li о f f. F e d t s h e u к o's travels lu 'i'urkp- 

 stan, vol. 11. i)art V. Lei)id<i])teia, p. 7)i (1S74). Ercslioff's ilescrijjtion of 

 mirifica shows that he had at hand ouly male specimens, whereas of the follo- 

 wing species, simiola, he had only females. This induced him to consider them 

 to be of the same species and his description (in the russiau text) of the female 

 gives exactly the characters of P ü u g e 1 e r"s nimiola. 



Figg. 19 and 20. Anydrophild inirifica E r s с li. 



') The membrane between the 7-th and 8-th segments in all tlu'ee spe- 

 cies is very long and can be extended very far. It is clear that tlds long mem- 

 1)гапе, the long apophyses and long distance of the apertures of the ductus 

 seminalis, spiralis and the glands from the vaginal aperture enable these insects 

 to protrude its abdomen very far. As the biology of these species is absolutely 

 unknown it is difficult to suggest a theory for the use of this structural pecu- 

 liarity, and the said pivots are very likely to be in connection with it. 



lievue Russe d'Entom. 1909. Aï 1-2. (Juin 1909J. 



