no. 3625 LIBERIAN STREPSIPTERA — FOX 



Holotype male: Suakoko, Liberia, light trap, February 1952, 

 Blickenstaff, USNM type no. 69562. One paratype male, same data, 

 at CM. 



Discussion: M. liberiensis is decidedly smaller than any of the 

 species previously described from Africa except M. afurcifer Luna de 

 Carvalho, from which it differs in venation and terminalia of the 

 abdomen. The evenly tapered aedeagus of M. liberiensis, with the 

 apical tip rounded rather than strongly produced ventrally, differs 

 distinctly from M. congoensis Silvestri, M. leleupi Pasteels, M. 

 lundensisIjxmsL de Carvalho, and M. pseudolundensis Luna de Carvalho. 

 It is further distinct from M. blickenstaffi in venation and proportion 

 of antennal segments as well as the formation of metathoracicsclerites. 



Myrmecolax mano, new species 



Figures 14-19 



Male: Body brown, 1.4 mm long and 0.3 mm between wings; 

 median breadth of hindwing 1.4 mm; expanse 3.1 mm. 



Head: With fairly broad, slightly concave vertex bearing slender 

 antenna 1.0 mm long. Flabellum of segment in reaches almost to tip 

 of vi, which is slightly shorter than vn. Mouthparts with sabre-shaped 

 mandibles one-half as long as distal segment of maxillary palpus. 



Figures 14-19. — Myrmecolax mano, new species: 14, body and antenna in dorsal aspect; 

 15, right hindwing; 16, aedeagus, lateral view; 17, hindleg; 18, mandible; 19, maxillary 

 palpus. (Figs. 16-19 use 0.2 mm scale.) 



