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the cephalic one as each is distant from the respective eye margin 

 and still farther apart from each otlier. Antennae 11-jointed scape, 

 pedicel (no ring Joint), 8 funicle joints and a Single club Joint, fili- 

 form, compressed from the base of the scape out to the second funicle 

 Joint, from thence cylindrical, the scape long, extending above the 

 Vertex, the pedicel minute, the first funicle Joint subquadrate, nearly 

 a half shorter than pedicel, the second funicle Joint as long as the 

 scape, distinctly longer than the following Joint, the funicle joints 

 distad shortening, not much longer than wide, the club distinctly 

 longer than the distal funicle Joint, ovate, not wider, ending in an 

 obtuse point ; antennae clothed with soft, short, brownish hair which 

 is moderately dense. 



Prothorax distinct, with a short neck; parapsidal furrows com- 

 plete, not deep, not straight but forming a somewhat broken line; 

 parapsides peltate convexed at their middles, raised and projected 

 ventrad over the axillae, truncate caudad, the space between them 

 concave longitudinally but not acute. Scutellum small, ovate, narrow 

 at its base, the small triangulär axillae nearly meeting there, barely 

 separated. Metathorax with a faint median carina, its caudal margin 

 margined, its spiracle moderate in size, quadrate-oval; no spiracular 

 sulci but just laterad of the spiracle is an obtuse carina. Abdomen 

 about as long as the head and thorax combined, stout, conic-ovate, 

 convexed beneath, flat above, the second segment the longest, occupy- 

 ing a third of the surface, the others gradually shortening, the 

 caudal margins of the segments in the dorsal aspect convex; ab- 

 domen sessile, terminating in a very long, slender, needle-like ovi- 

 positor, over twice the length of the body and whose equally long 

 valves (2) are curled over the body and twisted. Body not punctate, 

 reticulated. 



Fore wings clouded throughout with the exception of a small 

 clear triangulär area just opposite the base of marginal vein, without 

 marginal cilia along the cephalic margin distad of the venation 

 excepting an occasional isolated cilium, and elsewhere it is very 

 Short and close, denser along the caudal margin and apparently the 

 discal ciliation projecting beyond the margin; discal ciliation very 

 dense, somewhat matted, short and fine. (Through a hand lens no 

 marginal ciliation visible, the discal ciliation exceedingly fine.) 

 Venation straight, slender, marginal vein slightly shorter than the 

 submarginal, both long and slender, the postmarginal vein also long, 

 but only half as long as the marginal vein, gradually narrowing distad. 



