EMBIOPTE'RA OF THE NEW WOKLD — ROSS 443 



Remarks. — In general appearance, particularly by virtue of its 

 yellow prothorax and size, this species resembles subspecies (?) of 

 the Pararhagadochir tHnitatis complex that occur in the same region. 

 The female cited above, which appears to be of this species, can be 

 separated from those of Pararhagadochir by the absence of a second 

 hind basitarsal sole-bladder and the evenly pigmented basal segments 

 of the cerci. 



SCHIZEMBIA MINUTA, new species 



Figures 70-72 



Male. — Color (in alcohol) : Head, antennae, pterothorax, and ter- 

 minalia chocolate brown ; wings and abdomen light brown ; prothorax 

 reddish yellow; femora bicolorous, basal three-fourths pale yellow, 

 terminal fourth brown; cerci with apex of basal segment and entire 

 terminal segment pale yellow. Length 6.5 mm.; forewing length 4 

 mm., breadth 1 mm. 



Head (fig. 70) shorter and broader than in grandis; with sides 

 slightly rounded, gradually convergent caudad, abruptly rounded and 

 transverse behind. Eyes as in grandis. Antennae 19-segTnented (ap- 

 parently complete). 



Wings relatively small. Kadius with bordering bands, broad ; not 

 parallel to costal margin but converging toward it and meeting it 

 well before apex of wing. Radial sector forked midway in wing. 

 Venation otherwise similar to that of grandis except only one nearly 

 obsolete cross vein is present between E.^ and Ra+s- Color uniform 

 light brown ; hyaline stripes very narrow and sharply defined. 



Terminalia (figs. 71, 72) small; similar in general structure to that 

 of grandis^ but differing in details of tergal processes as illustrated, 

 and the process of the ninth sternite (H), which is longer and nar- 

 rower, with the corners of the apex strongly turned inward so as to 

 nearly meet and form a tube; ventrally the apex of the process bears 

 a small lobe. Composite left cercus-basipodite and left paraproct 

 large, triangulate. Terminal segments of both cerci and apices of 

 basal segments very pale yellow. 



Female. — No specimens associated with male. 



Holotype. — Winged male, on slide, U.S.N.M. No. 56045. 



Type data. — With Cattleya in cargo from Medellin, Colombia, in 

 plant quarantine at Hoboken, N. J., October 15, 1941 (Inspector 

 Sanford). 



Paratype. — Collected in an express shipment of wild orchids from 

 Medellin, Colombia, in plant quarantine at Washington, D. C, August 

 •28, 1936 (Inspector Adams), deposited in writer's collection. 



