BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 
1725 
long hairs forming a verticil at the base, clothed with short hairs ; 
in the ^ the second joint of the scapus stouter and rather longer 
than the following joints, sparsely verticillate-pilose; flagellar joints 
gradually increasing in length, slender, cylindrical, rather densely 
covered with a short pubescence, sparsely verticillate-pilose at the 
base. Thorax longish-ovate, arched; scutellum small; metathorax 
steep. Hal teres small. Abdomen slender, almost cylindrical, 
Avith eight segments in both sexes ; in the male terminating with 
holding-forceps ; the ovipositor of the ^ with short terminal 
lamellee. Legs long and slender, especially the hind pair ; coxie 
short ; tibiae spiuulose ; tarsi long, metatarsal joint very long, 
terminal joint shortest in the hind-legs ; ungues small, acute. 
Wings longer than the abdomen, narrow, elongate, lanceolate, 
densely ciliated, the veins covered with chiefly linear scales ; 
incumbent in repose. Humeral cross- vein and siib-costal cross- 
vein present, the latter situated before the middle of the 
auxiliary vein. Marginal cross-vein wanting. Second longitudinal 
vein stalling from the first longitudinal vein a short distance 
beyond the sub-costal cross-vein, and at a point before half 
the length of the wing, terminating in a long narrow fork, 
the branches running parallel. Third longitudinal vein origi- 
nating from the second longitudinal at a point much nearer 
to the base of the fork than to the origin of the latter. Middle 
cross-vein situated close to the base of the third longitudinal vein. 
Fourth longitudinal vein terminating in a broader and rather 
shorter fork than that of the second longitudinal ; their bases 
more or less oj)posite. Posterior cross-vein situated more or less 
before, or almost in a line with, the middle cross-vein. Fork of 
the fifth longitudinal nearly as broad as that of the second and 
fourth longitudinal veins taken together, as long or a little longer 
than that of the former, its ba.se generally situated at a point 
about mid-way between the base of the second longitudinal and 
the tip of the sixth longitudinal, sometimes beyond. Sixth longi- 
tudinal vein slightly arcuated, joining the wing margin before the 
posterior cross-vein (Pi. xl., fig. 2). 
A. Tarsal .joint.s with rale rin(;s. 
