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equal, broadly rounded apically, the cross veins rather distant ; wings 

 moderately broad, hyaline in the species seen, the cells large, in no 

 part exceptional. 



40. Phlibostroma pictum. Livid brown, with an oliva- 

 ceous tinge above ; upper interior edge of eyes margined with black, 

 and the summit of the head with a more or less distinct dark median 

 stripe; antennfe yellow, a little rufous toward the tip. A triangular 

 brown stripe behind the eye, the apex a little above the middle of the 

 eye, connected with a broad blackish brown stripe on the sides of the 

 pronotum, extending to, and sometimes a little beyond, the principal 

 transverse sulcus, faint in front and enlivened by a short longitudinal 

 white line, extending, a little below the middle of tlie stripe, from the 

 anterior transverse sulcus forward; posterior lobe of pronotum dusky 

 externally on the disc; tegmina pale cinereous, the middle area with 

 four or five large, oblique, quadrate or triangular, fuscous blotches, 

 darkest at the edges, extending from the base three quarters of the 

 distance to the tip, the outer ones more transverse than the others 

 and directed from below upward and outward; wings hyaline, some 

 of the veins blackish; hind femora cinereous, black at tip, witii two or 

 three very oblique, fuscous stripes, all but the basal one covering also 

 the superior sulcation, sometimes confluent on the sides; hind tibis 

 pale red, paler toward the base, the extreme tip of which is black. 



Length of body, d", 16 mm.; ?, 22.25; of antenna, 9, 9.25 mm.; of 

 tegmina, c?, 16 mm.; ?, IS mm.;r, of hind femora, d, 11.5 mm.; 9. 

 1 .35. 1 d", 1 ?, Glencoe, Dodge Co., Nebraska, G. M. Dodge. 



