436 



PRiOCE'E,DtmGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Holotype.— Winged male, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva. 

 Type data.— Biigahn, Central America (Panama), 250-400 meters. 



(See Krauss, 1911.) 



0/Jier records. — Mojica, Guanacaste, Kio Bianco; Farm La Caja, 

 near San Jose, Costa Rica (H. Schmidt) (Hamburg Museum)*; 

 Costa Rica, 1921 (P. Serre).** 



SAUSSUREMBIA SYMMETRICA, new species 



Figures 61-63 



MaJe holotype (on slide).— Head and basal antennal segment choco- 

 late brown ; first five succeeding antennal segments tan, terminal seg- 

 ments increasingly darker, becoming brown ; mandibles medium brown. 



Figures 61-63. — Saussurembia symmetrica, new species, holotype male (Colombia): 61, 

 Head; 62, terminalia (dorsal);63, terminalia (ventral). Explanation of symbols on p. 403. 



tips golden brown; prothorax tan, pterotliorax and hindlegs (other 

 legs missing) medium brown ; abdomen tan, terminalia only slightly 

 darker, cerci pale tan. Length 5.5 mm.; forewing length 3.7 mm., 

 breadth 0.9 mm. 



Head (fig. Gl, partially reconstructed — head capsule broken on 

 right side) : Elongate oval; eyes rather large, separated by interspace 

 two eye widths wide, facets prominent, their interspaces unpigmented ; 

 sides behind eyes gradually, evenly arcuate behind, continuous with 

 rounded caudal margin. Mandibles nearly equal in form, very acutely 

 pointed apically, nondentate at tips or medially, outer basal angle 

 abruptly rounded. Mentum unsclerotized, quadrate, slightly wider 

 than long, sides weakly convergent behind. Antennae defective 

 terminally. 



Wings with typical anisembiid venation. Radius (Ri) gradually 

 merging with costa, meeting it well before apex of wing. R2+3 and 

 its petiole are the only remaining nonobsolete veins (except Cuia), the 

 other veins being represented only by rows of macrotrichiae and 



