CYDNIDAE OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE — FROESCHNER 563 



tures paralleling claval suture, discally with fine scattered punctures 

 becoming denser and coarser basally and sometimes apically; exo- 

 corium more uniformly and closely punctate; costa with two (one 

 specimen with three on one side) setigerous punctures; membranal 

 suture straight, lateral angle not produced; membrane surpassing 

 apex of abdomen. 



Propleuron: Shining, with few punctures in depression and above 

 acetabulum, 



Mesopleuron: Evaporatorium reaching lateral margm; lateral area 

 impunctate. 



Metapleuron: Lateral margin of evaporatorium straight; lateral 

 area impunctate. 



Legs: Not specially modified. 



Sternites: Shining, impunctate, more or less rugopunctatc in spirac- 

 ular area. 



Terminalia: Genital capsule shining, with few fine punctures later- 

 ally, apical margin sinuate medially; gonostylus as illustrated (fig. 

 258). 



Length of body: 5.10(4.87-5.44). 



Female: Similar to male. 



Head: Length-width ratio, 0.85(0.79-0.92) : 1.31(1.23-1.37); inter- 

 ocular width, 0.81(0.78-0.87). Antennal segments: I, 0.27(0.25-0.33); 

 II, 0.24(0.22-0.30); III, 0.28(0.26-0.31); IV, 0.33(0.31-0.36); V, 

 0.40(0.36-0.43). Labial segments: I, 0.44(0.40-0.51) II, 0.64(0.62- 

 0.66); III, 0.45(0.43-0.49); IV, 0.36(0.34-0.41). 



Pronotum: Length-width ratio, 1.40(1.31-1.52) :2.66(2. 53-2.86). 



Scutellmn: Length-width ratio, 1.76(1.62-1.88) : 1.67(1.56-1.82). 



Length of body: 4.97(4.89-5.39). 



Type data. — Holotype male (Car) and allotype female (Car), 

 "Taperina, Brazil, Ace. No. 2966." Paratypes as follows: 



Brazil: Taperina, 4 males, 4 females (Car, USNM). Santar^m, 2 males, 2 

 females (Car). Natal, Mann, 1 femal (MCZ). No exact locality ("Brasil, S. 

 Am."), 1 male, 1 female (AmM). 



Argentina: La Plata, Spegessini, 1 female (MCZ); 2 males, 1 female 

 (UnivNac); C. Bruck, 2 females (UnivNac); A. R. Bezzi, 1 male (UnivNac). 

 "Pucapampa," December 1919, Weiser, 1 female (BrM). Rfo Negro (Menafra), 

 Tremolera and Jorgensen, 3 males, 4 females (UnivNac, RCF). Buenos Aires, 

 C. Bruck, 1 female (UnivNac). Rfo Lujdn, Buenos Aires Province, Nov. 19, 

 1939; Biraben-Bezzi, 1 female (UnivNac). Palado, Buenos Aires Province, Sept. 

 20, 1942. Torres, 1 male (UnivNac). Rosario, Santa ¥6 Province, 1 female 

 (UnivNac). 



Discussion: The specific name refers to the lack of outstanding 

 features to make this form conspicuous among other species of the 

 genus. 



