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margins of the fore wings distad rimmed with yellowish. Eyes dark 

 reddish. 



With all of the characters of Alaptus Haliday, male, but the anten- 

 nae i2-jointed; resembling an Alaptus. However, the fore wing is 

 slenderer at that portion just distad of the venation and the caudal 

 wings are as narrow as it is possible for them to be and still have a 

 blade, narrower by a half than those of Alaptus. Fore wings shaped 

 as in Alaptus, their marginal cilia long and slender, the longest at and 

 around the apex where they are four or more times longer than the 

 wing is wide just before apex (its widest portion), the cilia sym- 

 metrical along each margin, those around the dilated apical portion of 

 the blade colorless a short distance out from their insertions, making 

 the usual colorless path which follows the outlines of the margins of 

 the apex. Blade of the fore wing characterized by bearing in the 

 dilated portion (distal half or less) a single midlongitudinal paired 

 line of short discal cilia and a single line of the same along each mar- 

 gin, all three lines about equal in length. Venation as in Alaptus and the 

 wing has the usual dilated portion proximad, along the caudal margin. 

 Caudal wings very narrow and nearly straight but slightly widening 

 distad, their marginal cilia long, the longest (at apex) about half the 

 length of the longest of the fore wing, present farther proximad along 

 the caudal margin of the blade; the blade of the posterior wing bearing 

 along the distal half or less, at each margin, a single line of discal 

 cilia, distinct but short ; no discal cilia in the midlongitudinal line of 

 the posterior wing. All tarsal joints short, the proximal one longest, 

 the tibial spurs single, minute, straight. Legs simple, slender, but of 

 the usual length. 



Antennae 12-jointed, filiform as in male Alaptus; characterized by 

 iiaving the second funicle joint abruptly narrower and slightly shorter 

 than the first, somewhat as the case with Alaptus iceryae Riley but the 

 joint is slenderer and longer than wide; scape and pedicel short, the 

 latter widest of all segments; funicle i shorter and much narrower 

 than the pedicel ; 2 abruptly narrower and slightly shorter than i, a 

 half shorter than 3 which is also distinctly broader : 4 and 5 subequal, 

 each a fourth shorter than 3, each longer than i ; 6, 7, 8 and 9 subequal, 

 each slightly longer than the one preceding. 6 subequal to 3, 9 longest 

 of the flagellum. Joint 10 or the club conical, subequal to 4. All 

 flagellar segments distinctly longer than wide. Pubescence sparse and 

 minute. (From i specimen, 2-3 inch objective, i-inch optic, Bausch 

 and Lomb.) 



Female, — Unknown. 



Described from a single male specimen on a slide in balsam 

 received for identification from Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt. Do- 

 minion Entomologist. Ottawa. Canada, the slide being labelled 



