SPONGILLA-FLIES — PARFIN AND GURNEY 511 



eluded on available maps. It might appear that more than six days 

 (June 26-July 1) might be required to traverse the distance between 

 those localities named Sao Felip(p)e found on the maps and the 

 Coary River. 



This South American species is easily distinguished from other 

 species of Climacia by the absence of a basal radiomedial streak 

 coupled with the heavy anal streaking. These features separate it 

 from nota, which it closely resembles not only in the wing venation 

 but also in the elongate lateroventral halves of the ninth tergite of 

 the female. From chilena, which also has no radiomedial streak, it 

 is recognizable by the lack of setal spotting on the longitudinal veins 

 and the longer plates of the ninth tergite, as well as the heavy anal 

 streakmg. The location of 2d m under 1st r-m appears to be fairly 

 constant. 



This species is named in honor of Dr. Henry K. Townes of North 

 Carolina State College, who in 1946 invited attention to the presence 

 of Sisyra apicalis Banks in Florida. This suggestion led ultimately 

 to this revision of the family from the Western Hemisphere. 



Climacia carpenteri, new species 



Figure 24, b; Plate 2, figure 7 



Female (holotype) : Head with vertex brownish yellow, darker 

 spot with a little reddish immediately behind antennae; face yellowish 

 with a little reddish; palpi brownish yellow; antennae with basal two 

 segments dark brown, rest blackish brown (31 segments in left antenna, 

 26 in right) ; legs brownish yellow, prothoracic femora with longitudinal 

 reddish brown dorsal streak, metathoracic legs with distal ends of 

 femora and basal ends of tibiae blackish to reddish brown; pronotum 

 brown, lateral margins of mesonotum and metanotum darker brown, 

 mesothoracic and metathoracic pleura with broad, anterior, longi- 

 tudinal, blackish brown streaks; abdomen brownish with yellowish 

 brown tergites and sternites. 



FoREwiNG (pi. 2, fig. 7): Length 4.3 mm., width 1.6 mm.; mem- 

 brane slightly yellowish with one larger and two smaller blackish 

 brown spots, the first, the radiomedial streak, transversely elongate, 

 more or less oblique, beginning at 1st r curving slightly basad along 

 Rs and then du-ected distad along MA and 1st m between MA and 

 MPl-1-2 for greater part of length, where there is an abrupt break, 

 with spotting continuing along point of forking of MPl + 2 and 

 MPS +4, and Cu; the second, the small antepterostigmal spot, slightly 

 broader at costa and covering at least partially one costal and two 

 pterostigmal cross-veins, with faint shadmg at end of subcostal space 

 between Sc and Rl; the third, the smaller postpterostigmal spot, at 

 end of pterostigma; longitudinal intervenational streaking from outer 



