Pacific Species of Pulvilligerar — MlLLlRON 
Male: Antenna slender with distinct three- 
segmented club bearing short, thick, almost 
recumbent pubescence; funicle with segments 
of nearly equal length, each swollen basally, 
less so distally, and with long, stiff, inclined 
or suberect pubescence, sparser than that on 
the club and arranged in somewhat irregular 
whorls (Fig. 1). 
Fig. 1. Sections of typical male antenna of the 
genus Pulvilligera. 
Female: Antenna with an indistinct three- 
segmented club, and all the funicular seg- 
ments of about the same width. 
Pulvilligera maxima Strand 
Male: Length 13.0 mm.; abdomen .5.3 
mm. Outline of head from above, oval, less 
than twice as thick as long, depressed on 
vertex and along an oblique line from each 
lateral ocellus to each compound eye, the 
vertex and most of the ocellar area with fine 
transverse rugulae which extend down over 
temples, the sculpture on the front sharper 
and more-or-less vertical, the occipital carinae 
sharp and evenly arcuate above; the ocelloc- 
cipital line about twice as long as either the 
ocellocular or posterior ocellar line; scape 
compressed, evenly curved, and slightly 
longer than combined lengths of pedicel, ring 
segment, and FI; pedicel wider than FI; all 
funicular segments several times longer than 
thick, slightly decreasing in length progres- 
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sively from FI to and including FVII; club 
only a little shorter than combined lengths 
of FVI and FVII; antennal scrobe deep but 
not bounded by a distinct carina above. Pro- 
notum a little longer than wide, sides nearly 
smooth, above with distinct transverse rugae, 
the emargination on anterior margin shal- 
low; mesonotum to transverse line with 
prominent transverse rugae, those on the 
mesopraescutum more arcuate and sharpest, 
behind transverse line at most only weakly 
sculptured to smooth; basal segment of hind 
tarsus slightly longer than segments 2-5 
combined. Propodeum with slight median 
longitudinal depression and crossed by nu- 
merous irregular rugae becoming more cir- 
cular on either side of depression posteriorly; 
abdomen subdepressed. 
Color mostly brownish to greenish-yellow 
with black (and brown) markings. Head 
brownish-yellow with front below antennal 
bases extending onto clypeus, along fronto- 
genal suture, gena below, the occiput border- 
ing foramen magnum, three circular spots on 
vertex (one above each compound eye, an- 
other near the occipital carina ) , the area sur- 
rounding the ocelli and extending to com- 
pound eye and most of the antennal scrobe 
dark brown to black; most of scape and pedi- 
cel brownish-yellow, remainder of antenna 
black. Pronotum brownish-yellow (with 
shade of greenish-yellow) except below at 
sides and three separate longitudinal stripes 
above (two lateral, one median) which are 
black, the median weaker anteriorly; meso- 
praescutum and each mesoscutum with lon- 
gitudinal median area dark brown, the re- 
mainder greenish-yellow; outer margin of 
axilla suffused with brown, the inner margin 
greenish-yellow; parapsidal furrow black; 
mesoscutellum greenish-yellow with a me- 
dian longitudinal somewhat diamond-shaped 
black spot that extends to beyond the trans- 
verse line; prepectus and mesepisternum 
brown, remainder of pleura mostly brownish- 
yellow; median piece of metanotum greenish- 
