MORGAN HEBARD 367 



Specimens Examined: 11; 5 males, 5 females and 1 immature individual. 



Bahamas, II, 11, 190o, (E. Wright; flew to trap), 1 9, [Morse Cln.]. 



Nassau, New Providence Island, Bahamas, II, 3, 1904, (Hebard; Fort 

 Charlotte), 1 d", 2 9,^^ type, allotype, parahjpe, 1 juv. 9, [Hebard Cln.]. 



Mangrove Cay, Andros Island, Bahamas, 1904, (O. Bryant), 1 6^,^° [Morse 

 Chi.]. 



Eleuthera Island, Bahamas, IV, 11 to 20, 1907, (C. J. Maynard), 3 c?, 2 9, 

 [M. C. Z.]. 



Symploce flagellata new species (Plate XVIII, figs. 14, 15, 16 and 17.) 



Nearest in relationship to S. capitata, strikingly differing 

 from that species in the remarkable development of the male 

 sinistral specialized style. The present species does not show 

 the ferruginous tone of general coloration so frequent in 

 capitata, nor are the females as distinctly more robust than 

 the males. 



Type. — -cf ; Desecheo Island, Porto Rico, West Indies. Feb- 

 ruary 18, 1914. (F. E. Lutz.) [Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.] 



Description of Type. — Size medium small and form moderately slender for 

 the group, much as in S. jamaicana and S. morsei. Head with eyes of nor- 

 mal size, as in capitata. Interocular space slightly narrower than interocellar 

 space. Ocelli, tegmina, wings and limbs as in capitata. Median segment 

 decidedly specialized as in jamaicana, capitata and morsei. Sixth dorsal 

 abdominal segment with latero-caudal angles acute-angulate produced, so 

 that the distal margin is deeply concave, entire surface deeply concave, but 

 with a high medio-longitudinal carina and a bulbous swelling proximo- 

 laterad on each side, this segment as in jamaicana and morsei; seventh seg- 

 ment concealed; eighth segment with free margin mesad bearing a fringe of 

 short hairs, with free margin alone showing except at the latero-caudal angles, 

 which are produced in subtriangular very deeply concave projections, this 

 segment as in capitata. Supra-anal plate with surface ascending to a moder- 

 ately distinct, rounded, proximal, transverse ridge opposite the hairs on the 

 eighth segment, in this region supplied laterad with rather numerous short 

 hairs; this plate almost exactly intermediate in contour and form between 

 that of capitata and of morsei. Subgenital plate moderately convex, free mar- 

 gin convex but in places somewhat flattened, at mesal point the plate just 

 within the margin is produced in a very small scute curving outward with 

 apex rounded, at its dextral base is situated a minute knob (dextral style), 

 at the sinistral base a tremendously elongate, chitinous, flagellate production 

 over half as long as the width of the subgenital plate, curving gently dextrad, 

 with distal portion curved dorsad and projecting slightly beyond the distal 

 margin of the supra-anal plate (sinistral style). 



*^ Recorded by Rehn as Ischnoptera blatloides. 

 *" Recorded by Morse as Ischnoptera blatloides. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



