MORGAN HEBARD 
211 
Allotype . — 9 ; Same data as type. [Hebard Collection.] 
Similar to females of typical maija except in the reduction of the organs of 
flight. Interocnlar space scarcely wider than in male, much as in females of 
typical maya.-- Tegmina covering about half the dorsal abdominal surfact'; 
wings reduced, incapable of sustained flight, when closed reaching as far 
candad as the tegmina. 
It is of interest to note that, in the present race, the reduction in the or- 
gans of flight has had no efTect whatever on the form of tiu' pronotnm. 
In coloration no dilTerence from niaya ituiya is shown. 
Measure nKiuts (in uiitlitnelers) 
cT 
Lengtli 
of 
iKKiy 
Lengtli 
of 
])ronotum 
Width 
of 
pronof um 
Length 
of 
tegnuai 
Width 
of 
tegnien 
Type 
... ft). 5 
5. .8 
7. 1 
13.7 
f) . 3 
Paratypes (5) 
... 17.2-19 
.a-.a.t) 
0-7 . 1 
12.3-13.2 
3-0 . 7 
9 
Allotype 
... 24.8 
(5.7 
S 
14.3 
(5.3 
Paratypes (La) 
. . . 20-2(5 
(5 -(5. S 
7.4-S.7 
12.8-14.4 
O.8-0.8 
d'he following characters, not given in the original description of maya, 
are noted for both races of the .si)ecies.-’ Male. Maxillaiy palpi with sec- 
ond joint twice as long as wide, third joint four-fifths as long as the narrowly 
enlarged fifth joint, fourth joint almost as long as third, exi^anding distad. 
.Abdominal tergites with latero-caudal angles bluntly rounded. Supra-anal 
j)late bilobate ami weakly chitinous distad. Subgenital plate of the nnspecial- 
ized, asymmetrical lobiform type characteristi(; of the genus, with styles 
simple, .straight, elongate. Ventro-cephalic margin of cephalic femora arnu'd 
with a row of heavy proximal spines, succeeded by well spac(‘d, minute, 
chaetiform spines, tenninated by two heavy elongate spines, of which the 
more distal is twice as long as the more ])roximal; otlnu- ventral femoral 
margins supplied with heavy elongate spines, of which those of the caudal 
margins are distinctly the longer. Four proximal tarsal joints with large 
distal pulvilli, three proximal joints biseriately armed with spinuhu' ventrad. 
-Medium sized arolia present between tlie simj)le, symmetrical tarsal claws. 
Female. Similar, but larger and broader. Ocelli smaller and h'ss con- 
si)icnous. Donsal abdominal tergites with latero-candal angles produced 
Thus, in tyi)ical maya, there is a decidedly greatei' contrast betw(‘(Mi tin' 
sexes in width of interocnlar sjjace, than in the i)r(>sent race. d’oo great 
stress should not be given this fact, as it is very possible that, in coordin.al ion 
with reduction in the organs of flight, the maleof ia. ^ruc/z/y/^/cru, as well as l he 
female, has retained the tyi)e showing clo.s(>r agremnent with that ol the 
immature condition. In typical maya, with fully devc'lojaMl organs ol flight, 
such is also the case for the female sex, but. a change has oeeuri'C'd in the 
male. We have found generally that immature eharaeterisi ies remain un- 
clianged hunger in females than in males of the Hiatt iilae. 
Many (jf these are pi'obalrly of gcmeric, rather Ih.in specific, significanc(‘. 
TK.\NS. .\.\I. EXT. .Xl.VlI. 
