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MONOGRAPH OF THE EMBIDINA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. A. Hagen
Affiliation:
Cambridge, Mass.

Extract

6. Oligotoma Westwoodi, n. sp.

O. Westwoodi Hag., Synops. Embid., p. 222 (no description, not named.)

Length of body 4½ mill.; exp. of wings 7 mill.

Male: As the specimen is enclosed in copal (Gummi anime), the colours are not certain, but the head, with antennæ and palpi, the thorax and the legs in part, seem to have been blackish-fuscous; head more Raphidia-like than in any other species; more than half longer than broad; the rounded sides sloping down, the occiput less than half as broad as the front part with the eyes; head above slightly convex, epistom large, convex; eyes large, prominent, about orbicular, with a small excision for the insertion of the antennæ; facets large, globose; antennæ long, reaching the end of the metathorax, inserted in a longer socket, 15-jointed; 1st joint a little thicker, cylindrical, half as broad as long; 2nd as long as broad; all others obclavate, to three times longer than broad, but the 3rd to 5th a little shorter than the rest, the last one more ovoid, with tip rounded; there seems not to be wanting any joint more. Labrum large, rounded, a little darker in middle; max. palpi 5-jointed, the three basals alike, short, as broad as long; 4th a little longer,5th longer, ovoid; labial palpi 3-jointed, apical joint longer, ovoid.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1885

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