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Description of Allotype. — Much the same size as the male. Prono- 

 tum proportionately wider than in C. trigonipalpum, narrower than 

 in C. antillarum. Tegmina absent. Subgenital plate arcuato- 

 convergent laterad, semi-ovate, carinate meso-caudad, very narrowly 

 acute-angulate emarginate at the apex. Ovipositor much shorter 

 than in the other species of the genus. 



Measurements (in millimeters.) 



<? Type. 9 Allotype. 



Hayti. Hayti. 



Length of body 7.2 7.1 



Length of pronotum 4.7 2.1 



Caudal width of pronotum 3. 2. 



Length of caudal femur 4.5 4 9 



Greatest width of caudal femur 1.9 2. 



Length of ovipositor 3.6 



Color Notes. — Head, antennae, pronotum and limbs cinnamon. 

 The pronotum of the female and first abdominal segments with 

 dorsal surface somewhat darker, approaching mars-brown. Abdo- 

 men of male black, all but the dorsal surface of the proximal segments 

 the same color in the female. Ovipositor russet. Scales on dorsal 

 surface translucent wood-brown, appearing silvery to the naked 

 eye; on the ventral surfaces of head and edges of the abdominal 

 segments the scales are hoary -white ; the heavy covering of scales on 

 the limbs is of the same color. On all but the edges of the abdominal 

 segments on the ventral surface of the abdomen, the scales are 

 translucent wood-brown. 



Distribution. — The species is known from but two specimens from 

 the island of Hayti, and we have no information concerning the 

 habits of the insect. 



Specimens Examined. — 1 cf 1 , 1 9 . 



Hayti; (P. R. Uhler); 1 d\ 1 9. (c? Type.) [Scudder Col- 

 lection.] 



Cryptoptilum trigonipalpum n. sp. 



1905. Cycloptilus americanus Morse (not of Saussure, 1874), Psyche, XII, 



p. 21. [Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas.] 

 1907. Liphoplus krugii Rehn and Hebard (not of Saussure, 1897), Proc. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, p. 316 (in part). [Pablo Beach and San 



Pablo, Florida.! 

 1911. Cycloptilus squamosus Sherman and Brimley (not of Scudder, 1868), 



Ent, News, XXII, p. 391 (in part). [Raleigh, North Carolina.] 



This species differs from C. antillarum in the average smaller size 

 over the major portion of its range, the more graceful build, the more 



