NO. 1977. MONOGRAPH OF THE SIGNIPHORIN^—GIRAULT. 221 



Belongs between tiie nigra and unifasciata groups and may be 

 distinguished by the perfectly clear wings. In the nigra group it 

 resembles more closely pulchra, noacki, and maxima; from the former 

 it differs in having shorter marginal fringes, in lacking the oblique 

 crease in the fore wing, in bearing a longer antennal club and somewhat 

 broader wings; from noacki in having the discal bristle of the fore 

 wing, shorter marginal cilia of the same wings and much longer antennal 

 club; and from maxima in the smaller wings, posterior ones especially, 

 and in the presence of the discal bristle of the fore wing. Of the species 

 of the unifasciata group it is more li^e, fasciata, being easily distin- 

 guished from melancholica, unifasciata, and rhizococci by the differ- 

 ent stigmal vein and marginal ciliation of the fore wings. From 

 fasciata it differs in having the curve made by the inner margin of 

 the stigmal with that of the marginal at apex shallower and longer, 

 in the absence of the oblique hair line or crease in the fore wing and 

 in having a decidedly longer antennal club. Placed with the unifasci- 

 ata group. 



From 1 specimen, the same magnification. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described from a single female specimen found tag-mounted in 

 the collections of the United States National Museum, since re- 

 mounted in balsam. The specimen bore the label ''Par. on Capulinia 

 jaboticahx, San Paulo, Brazil. A. Hempel, Coll., May 11, '98. H. 

 No. 214x". 



Habitat. — South America — Brazil (Sao Paulo). 



Host. — Capulinia jahoticahse von Ihering. 



Type.— Type No. 14202, U.S.N.M. One female in balsam. 



22. SIGNIPHORA MACULATA, new species. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length, 0.70 mm., mean. Moderate in size for the genus. 



General color brown, the abdomen darker, sometimes wholly 

 blackish but usually with only the sides blackish; fore wings fumated 

 much as in pulchra, but the portion of the fumated area distad of 

 the end of the venation is maculate or broken up into small, rounded 

 spots; also the area does not extend quite so far distad as m pulchra, 

 half way to the wing apex from the stigmal vein; nevertheless, this 

 clearer apical portion is not hyaline as in the other species, but dis- 

 tinctly though more or less faintly suffused with brownish. The 

 proximal half of the posterior wing is similarly fumated. The 

 clouded area of fhe fore wing is distinctly clearer under the proximal 

 half of the submarginal vein (sometimes under the whole of that 

 vein), while a longitudinal dark streak divides the proximal half of 

 the wing nearly into longitudinal halves; under (caudad of) the 



