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Genius meromyza, n. s [Plate H J f- ^domel and 
legs reddish yellow, basal se m e uboidal, emarginate behind, 
° f th f,n\ t 1 T shhS i°Ibte wfth a few scattered gray hairs. A faint 
smooth and shining aDove, ocelli. The eyes are nearly 
median furrow leads mi | d smoo tlily excavated between 
circular, and the front is ffelow the latter the 
them, above the attachment of the t with yellowish gray 
head is finely punctured and rather closely se^ ^ the labrlm 
hairs The clypeus is simp e, t , dian ea rina. The palpi 
broadly emarginate and with * at tip> reddish, except 
are white. I “ i s niceous. The antenn® are long and slender, 
at the apex, wmc ? • , 11 „ c rs 4- 0 j; which is inflated obcom- 
composed of thirty-one 30 mtes the tost ot wmc t ted c 
cal, the second is of about^ the same iengm a about ^ 
MS’ In 
iK„“sr atsaa’jar - — 
throughout, except the two basal joints. , 
The »•— C vi f..». ptofld 
6V Tr IwTy shaped hne of punctures into three areas, .the 
nil row of coalse punctures and two or three small sunken areas, 
which are likewise punctured. . , 
rk 
everywhere with" sinuous rugosities 
and sparsely beset with long gray hairs. 
The peduncle of the abdomen is partly smooth above, bein 
marked\vith only a few longitudinal rugosities near its distaienc 
orless Tensed pubescent, the last four or five segments m tb 
female being strongly compressed. 
The le^s are all yellow, the posterior thighs and coxse being 
little darkened. The two anterior pairs of coxae ^ s mo°th a 
vellow but the posterior pair is rugose, like the peduncle oi l 
abdomen Wings yellowish, highly iridescent, veins and stign 
ydCfsh-fuscoi. The middle humeral c^l - tnangular acu 
externally the posterior humeral linear, lhe radial ceil is o 
pointed externally, the radial nerve being regdarly curved. T1 
recurrent nervure extends very obliquely baciiwaid. . _ 
The male is similar to the female, except that it is some*" 
smaller and that the abdomen is not compressed, and the pal 
and antenn®. are darker and considerably longer, containing abo 
thirty-seven joints. 
