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A NEW SPECIES OF PHIGALIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. H. French
Affiliation:
Carbondale, Ill.

Extract

Phigalia cinctaria, n. sp.

Wingless female.—Length .75 of an inch; exserted oviduct, .25 more. Color light gray with a very slight olive tint, and irregularly mottled all over with black; the spots large above, but smaller on the sides and beneath; the thorax nearly uniform black; the divisions between the segmentspea green while alive, but turning darker in drying. Head grayish b1ack, the clypeus black; antennae black, annulated with gray, reaching to about the middle of the body, when turned back. Hind wings reaching to the back part of the first abdominal segment, the forewings reaching to the middle of the same segment. Feet and legs grayish black, annulated with gray. The oviduct with two joints exserted, the last third of the outer joint hairy, the hairs perpendicular to the joint. Head short, scarcely to be seen from above, rather wide between the eyes; palpi short. From a single ♀.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1878

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