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Text-figure 9. Glaphyrophlebia ovata (Sellards). Drawing based on 
neotype. 
Glaphyrophlebia ovata (Sellards) 
Text-figure 9 
Pursa ovata Sellards, 1909, Araer. Journ. Sci., 27:156, fis. 4. 
Fore wing: length 8 mm.; width, 3.5 mm. (neotype). Sc ter- 
minating at mid-wing; Ri slightly sigmoidal; Rs with 9 branches, 
each forked distally (neotype) ; M forked only at wing margin (neo- 
type) ; costal veinlets and those between Ri and Sc much closer 
together than in speciosa; cross veins between Ri and anterior mar- 
gin numerous and close together; cross veins between Ri and Rs and 
between branches of Rs much as in speciosa ; CuA with about 13 
branches leading to hind margin, close together and parallel; area 
between CuA and CuP with a reticulation basally. 
The holotype specimen, No. 1126 in the Sellards collection was 
studied by me in 1927; since that has subsequently been lost, I desig- 
nate as the neotype specimen No. 4965ab, Museum of Comparative 
Zoology; this was collected by F. M. Carpenter, at Elmo, in 1927. 
It consists of a very well preserved fore wing, lacking the anal area. 
The species is similar to speciosa but has the veinlets in the costal 
and subcostal areas much more numerous; it also has more branches 
of Rs and of CuA. The grooves of the membrane between the 
branches of Rs and M are more complicated than in speciosa , each 
one apparently being composed of 2 or 3 fine grooves. 
Sellards figure of ovata , based on a poorly preserved wing, con- 
fused the branches of Rs with grooves between them and also incor- 
rectly represented the structure of M. This species has the relatively 
small number of cross veins and lack of reticulation characteristic of 
Glyphrophlebia but has more cross veins and veinlets from CuA to 
the hind margin than speciosa does; in these respects it suggests the 
condition in Blatiinopsis more than the latter. 
