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femora. The females of Latindia are quite similar to the males, in 

 the present genus that sex is very different and entirely apterous. 



Genotype : Compsodes delicatiiliis [Latindia delicatiila) (Saus- 

 sure and Zehntner)/''''-^ 



The genus includes five species; argentiyuis (Rehn), delicatiilus 

 (Saussure and Zehntner), ciicidlatiis (Saussure and Zehntner)^ 

 schwarzi (Caudell) and mexicanus (Saussure), '^"^ males of all of 

 which are at present before us, the female sex of delicatiilus alone 

 being represented or known. 



Generic Description. — Size very small, form slender. Head of 

 male rounded, hairy between eyes which are very ample, with 

 interspace slightly less, to slightly greater, than that between the 

 antennal sockets, ocelli obsolete. Head of female slightly more 

 flattened, pilose between eyes which are greatly reduced, lateral, 

 with interspace very much greater than that between the antennal 

 sockets, ocelli obsolete. Pronotum of male very weakly convex, 

 transverse elliptical, surface thickly covered with short hairs; 

 disk with a distinct to subobsolete linear medio-longitudinal sulcus 

 and broad, distinct, but not deep, oblique, latero-caudal sulci. 

 Pronotum of female evenly and weakly convex, cephalic margin 



335 \Ye have selected this species as the genotype, as it is the sole representative of 

 the genus in which the female is known. 



Compsodes delicatulus (Saussure and Zehntner) 



1894. Latindia delicatiila Saussure and Zehntner, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Orth., i, p. 112, 



pi. V, fig. 7. [c?; Zapote, Guatemala.] 



Cacao, Trece Aguas, .'Xlta Vera Paz, Guatemala, III, 24 to l\\26, 1906, (Barber and 

 Schwarz), 140", 3 9 , 3 juv. cf , 2 juv. 9 , [U. S. N. M. and Hebard Cln.]. 



The following features are found to be diagnostic for this species. 



cf . Interocular space three-fifths that between the antennal sockets. Pronotum 

 almost perfectly elliptical. Tegmina with surface corrugated and heavily supplied with 

 moderately elongate hairs, particularly distad; less ample, less smooth and supplied with 

 much more numerous and longer hairs than in schwarzi. Dextral margin of subgenital 

 plate, from style to base of cercus, fringed with moderately elongate hairs; genitalia 

 otherwise similar to schwarzi. .Arolia microscopic, vestigial, occasionally absent on one 

 or all of the limbs. 



In the female the eyes are separated by a distance twice that between the antennal 

 sockets. In this sex arolia are absent. 



336 Yhe remaining species, which have been described as members of Latindia, are 

 variously distinctive in imp(jrtant features, which will probably necessitate the erection 

 of one or several additional new genera. 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



