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divided on the middle line ; the surface of scutum smooth ; posterior 

 segments each with a transverse row of granules, a median one on 

 the third segment much larger than the others; legs, especially the 

 hind pair, with rows of granules, bearing fine hairs; a large spur 

 above on tip of coxa IV; tarsal joints 5, 6, 8, 6. Palpi with long 

 bristles; tibia and tarsus each with four on outer side, the first and 

 third long, the others very short. 



Length 6 mm. 



From St. Maria Dota, Costa Rica (Tristan). The silvery bands 

 on the venter are very characteristic. 

 Cynorta bip^uttata Cambridge. i 



La Emilia, near Rio Santa Clara, 980 feet, Nov. 17-19, and Juan 

 Villas, 3,300 feet, Oct. 1, 1909, in bromeliads (Calvert). 

 Cynorta flavornata n. sp. 



Dark brown; sides reticulate with yellowish, and emitting branches 

 to middle of the body; two dots on the eye-tubercle; two large 

 • yellow spots above on the anal segment almost touching each other ; 

 a large yellow spot on each hind coxa; legs pale, densely marked 

 with fine black lines. Dorsum with a pair of low, basal, acute 

 tubercles and a pair of long spines behind, not one-half their length 

 apart, and with very slender tips; surface of dorsum and posterior 

 segments without granules. Femur IV twice as long as the width 

 of body and plainly longer than length of body; tarsal joints six, 

 fourteen, nine, and ten; first three of tarsus I enlarged. 



Length 6 mm., hind femur 10 mm. 



From San Jose, Costa Rica (Tristan). 

 Cynorta longispina Cambridge. 



La Emilia, in epiphytic bromeliad, Nov. 16, 1909 (Calvert). 

 Cynorta oculata n. sp. 



Red-brown, legs pale, finely maculate with black, dorsum with 

 four white rings surrounding the four tubercles, venter with two of 

 the basal segments pale on the middle of hind margin, last segment 

 with white mark each side, white spot surrounding the spiracles, 

 and a white stripe above coxae IV. Dorsum smooth, with four 

 humps, the basal pair low and blunt, the apical pair high, but more 



1 [Mr. Banks has recently re-examined a couple of specimens from the same 

 bromeliad, quoted on page 405 of volume XXII of Entomological News as Cynorta 

 sp., and writes: "The Phalangids are young Cynorta; have long palpi; when 

 mature, palpi are very much shorter. I cannot be sure of species; looks like 

 C. albomaculata Cambr., which is common in Costa Rica." The locality whence 

 these specimens came was Juan Vinas, Oct. 3 and 4, 1909.^ — P. P, Calvert.) 

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