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segment unspecialized and the supra-anal plate not produced, with 

 lateral margins furnished with a row of minute chitinous spines. 



Symploce lita^z new species (Plate XVII, fig. 8; pi. XVIII, figs. 1, 2, 3, 4.) 

 The present species is very distinctive. In the interocular 



space and form of ocelli the males agree more closely with S. 



jamaicana than with any of the other, all widely separated, species 



of the present genus. 



Type.— d"; ^-^Key West, Florida. July 4, 1912. (M. Hebard.) 



[Hebard Collection, Type no. 423.] 



Description of Type. — Very similar in general structure to jamaicana, 

 size medium small, slightly larger than in that species; form moderately slender 

 as in jamaicana; slightly more slender than in (S*. capitata. Head with eyes 

 larger than in jamaicana or capitata. Interocular space three-fifths as wide 

 as interocellar space. Ocelli distinct, with surfaces of ocellar areas flat and 

 almost perpendicular to the plane of the interocellar area, their margins there 

 sharply rounded. Maxillary palpi with third and fifth (distal) joints subequal 

 in length, fourth joint slightly shorter. Pronotum of same form as in capi- 

 tata but proportionately deeper. Tegmina and wings fully developed, as 

 given in generic description, structure of same very deHcate. Median seg- 

 ment unspeciahzed. Sixth dorsal abdominal segment with two small, mod- 

 erately deep, meso-proximal depressions, between which it is triangularly 

 raised with apex proximad, this portion thickly clothed with hairs, caudal 

 margin of segment rather strongly concave; seventh segment concealed except 

 narrowly laterad; eighth segment with narrow distal portion exposed, distal 

 margin strongly concave. Supra-anal plate transverse, not extending to 

 distal extremity of subgenital plate, lateral margins strongly convergent and 

 rounding into the broadly transverse mesal portion, lateral margins fur- 

 nished with a well spaced row of minute chitinous spines. Cerci slender 

 with lateral margins crenate, with eleven and twelve distinct joints, dorsal 

 surface flattened, ventral, surf ace convex. Subgenital plate weakly produced, 

 asymmetrical; dextral free margin produced obUque, nearly straight but 

 strongly upcurved to just beyond mesal point, there supplied with a minute 

 stout projection (style) with apex flat and margin shghtly produced sinistrad, 

 at the dextral base of which is a sharp, chitinous, curved spine of equal 

 length, sinistrad of this point the margin is sharply and briefly concave, from 

 which springs a projection (style) which is over twice as long but more 

 slender than the dextral style, and curved dextrad with apex tapering and 

 armed meso-distad with two minute, chitinous spines; beyond this the 

 sinistral portion of the free margin is straight, transverse. Limbs and arma- 

 ment of same as given in generic description. 



'2 From XtTi7 = unadorned. 



'3 We have described this specimen as tj'pe, since those of the Lower Cali- 

 fornia series are all dried alcoholic and complete data for them is not available. 



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