102 IttiNois NarurAL History SurvEY BULLETIN 
Marure Nympus 
Brown crossbar at posterior margin of terminal 
abdominal sternite joining three longitudi- 
nal, brown stripes on abdominal venter.... 
1. lineatus 
shaded with brown, this shading sometimes 
also extending over one or two sternites an- 
terior to terminal one........... 2. ludens 
1. Ameletus lineatus Traver 
Ameletus lineatus Traver (1932a:194). 
FEeMALE.—Length of body 11 mm., of 
fore wing 12 mm. Head _ yellow-brown, 
vertex with a longitudinal, median, dark 
235 
Fig. 235.—A meletus lineatus, head of adult 
female, lateral aspect. 
ae 236.—A meletus shepherdi, male geni- 
talia. 
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brown line; eyes light brown, with a yellow, 
dark brown-bordered stripe on outer surface, 
fig. 235; antennae smoky brown. Thorax 
dark yellow-brown, with yellow markings 
at sutures and on pleura around coxal bases; 
wings hyaline, veins and crossveins brown; 
legs yellow-brown, with tarsi somewhat 
darkened. Abdomen yellow-brown, without 
well-marked color pattern, although slightly 
darkened at posterior margins of each ter- 
gite; sternite 6 with a median, dark brown 
mark; lateral margins of terminal abdominal 
sternite slightly incised near apex; caudal 
filaments light, articulations dark, brown. 
236 
LT 
Fig. 238.—A meletus ludens, terminal abdom- 
inal sternites of adult female. 
Fig. 239.—Ameletus lineatus, terminal ab- 
dominal sternites of adult female. 
Fig. 237.—Ameletus lineatus, hind wing. 
