. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 50 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. POLYSPHINCTA MORTUARIA, Sp. nOV. (Fig. 36.) Female. Length mm. Small, slender, principally black, but varied somewhat with brown, especially on the abdomen. Head not preserved; the central part of the antennae visible, the joints slightly longer than wide. Thorax smooth or faintly punctulate, the metanotum with indications of a transverse and a lateral longitudinal carina. Abdomen sessile, elongate, grad- ually enlarged to the tip. Ovipositor preserved only at the base.
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 50 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. POLYSPHINCTA MORTUARIA, Sp. nOV. (Fig. 36.) Female. Length mm. Small, slender, principally black, but varied somewhat with brown, especially on the abdomen. Head not preserved; the central part of the antennae visible, the joints slightly longer than wide. Thorax smooth or faintly punctulate, the metanotum with indications of a transverse and a lateral longitudinal carina. Abdomen sessile, elongate, grad- ually enlarged to the tip. Ovipositor preserved only at the base. Legs only in part preserved. They appear to be dark in color and apparently have some of the tarsi variegated or banded. Wings hyaline, Fig. 36.— Polysphincta mortuaria, sp. nov. Type. stigma fuscous; nervures slightly lighter. Stigma broadly lanceolate; marginal cell long and narrowly acuminate at the tip. Areolet wanting, the transverse cubitus long; recurrent nervure received considerably beyond the transverse cubitus. Cubitodiscoidal cell rather long, the cubitodiscoidal nervure slightly and evenly curved. Submedian cell much longer than the median, the transverse median nervure strongly oblique. Tijpe.— No. 2134, M. C. Z., Florissant, Col. (No. 13,397, S. H. Scudder Coll.). Polysphincta inundata, sp. nov. Female. Length 12-13 mm. Large and stout; the body black, with a considerable amount of brown on the abdomen and legs. Antennae two-thirds the length of the body, slender, fusco piceous; basal joints of the flagellum about twice as long as wide; apical joints narrower, but smaller, being still twice as long as wide. Thorax quite distinctly and rather coarsely punctate, the pleurae more or less rugulose. Metanotum partially areolated. Abdo- men stout, about one and one-half times as long as the head and thorax to- gether; first segment black, more or less longitudinally rugulose and with a longitudinal lateral carina; following segments fuscous, indistinctly sculptured
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