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descending cross vein. Upper limb of arculus scarcely one- 

 half length of lower limb. 



Stigma black, regular, one and one-fourth times as long as 

 wide, covering one cell or less (in one left front wing more 

 than one cell, but no variation in the stigma itself). 



Alale appendages : Superiors long, slightly shorter than ab- 

 dominal segment 9 and not quite twice as long as 10 ; inferiors 

 short rounded tubercles, each with a short lateral spine. 



Type, Phasmoneura olmyra, n. sp. 



Phasmoneura olmyra n. sp. 



Abdomen, 32 mm. ; hind wing, 20 mm. Proportionate lengths of 

 abdominal segments i to 10, as follows: >)4, i}4, 6, 75^, 7J/2, 7, 5/4, 

 2^, I, /^, appendages 4-5. 



Labium pale, middle lobe deeply and broadly divided for nearly one- 

 lialf its length; rear of head pale. 



Genae pale yellow; labrum pale yellow, basal half black, the lower 

 rnargin of the black stippled ; anteclypeus yellow, bilobed medianly 

 with black which is continuous with the black postclypeus ; frons nar- 

 rowly in front and medianly pale, stippled with black, remainder black 

 or dark brown, more or less stippled adjoining the eyes; antennae 

 dark brown, the second joint darker at its apex; vertex black with 

 slight bluish or greenish reflections. 



Prothorax black or dark brown, laterally with some pruinescence, 

 an indefinite trace of a narrow pale area on the anterior edge of the 

 front lobe and of a small median spot on each side of the posterior 

 lobe; propleuron pale yellow. 



Dorsum of thorax entirely dark brown or dull black with indefinite 

 narrow streaks of rust color, the dark area reaching the humeral su- 

 ture and, below, slightly posterior to it, this posterior border rust- 

 colored and obscure ; mesepimeron and mesinfraepisternum pale, ap- 

 parently dull (or pale) blue with considerable pruinescence (on one 

 side of one specimen the mesepimeron has a black blotch 

 on more than its upper half ; this black has a pattern that suggests it 

 is due entirely to postmortem discoloration but the black looks like 

 pigment) ; metepisternum darker, clearer blue, almost black in cer- 

 tain lights ; metinf raepisternum pale yellow ; metepimeron very pale 

 blue, some black strippling along its anterior suture above, and near 

 the posterior suture near its midlength ; metasternum almost white. 



Coxae and legs pale yellow ; femora with stippled narrow dorsal 

 lines, broader apically, shading out basally ; indefinite brown stippled 

 areas give an impression of rings or bands on the femora and tibiae, 

 the darkest area at the apices of the femora; all joints with slight 



