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Fig. 1. Wings of N eohermes (after Chandler 1956). 
often decurved, with an apicomesal patch of short, black setae; ninth 
sternum forming a broad scoop; aedeagus flat, tip bilobed, with a 
central ridge. Female genitalia with anal plate triangular, gona- 
pophysis lateralis may bear an apical papilla. 
Type-species: Chauliodes filicomis Banks (original designation). 
The genus N eohermes ", known only from North America, is closely 
related to Protochauliodes Weele which is known from Western 
North America, Chile, and Australia. The males of N eohermes are 
easily recognized by their long hairy antennae (similar to a bottle- 
brush). The females of the two genera sometimes are very difficult 
to separate; the presence of a crossvein in cell R 3 of the forewing is 
generally reliable, but it is sometimes lacking in N eohermes or present 
in Protochauliodes; the gonapophyses laterales in the western species 
of N eohermes lack an apical papilla (present in the eastern ones) 
which is present in the Protochauliodes species in the same region. 
There is some variation in the shapes of the anal plates and aedeagi 
in all species. The three eastern species recognized probably do not 
have significantly differently shaped anal plates but do seem to have 
quite different aedeagi. It is possible that additional material from 
more localities in the southeastern United States will show inter- 
gradation in the shape of the aedeagus. 
N eo h erm es filico rn is (Banks) 
Figures 2-4, 9 
Chauliodes filicomis Banks, 1903, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 5: 238. 
N eohermes filicomis (Banks): Banks, 1908, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 10: 29. 
Weele 1910, Coll. Zool. Selys 5 (1) : 52-54. Van Dyke, 19+4, Pan-Pacific Ent. 
20 : 110 . 
