BALCLUTHA — BLOCKER 



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male holotype of E. neglecta var. 'pallida DeLong and Davidson in 

 the DeLong collection have been examined. Specimens have been 

 examined from Aiizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mich- 

 igan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Okla- 

 homa, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Other specimens 

 examined were from Mexico, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Trinidad 

 Island, Panama, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and 

 Argentina. This species is reported from Japan and Oceania. 



B. incisa (Matsumura) is closely related to B. neglecta (DeLong and 

 Davidson) and to B. diluta, new species, but can be readily distin- 

 guished by the shape of the aedeagus (see key). 



Balclutha diluta, new species 



Figure 35 



Length of male 3.0 to 3.3 mm, of female 3.0 to 3.3 mm; head width 

 of male .750 to .775 mm, of female .750 to .850 mm; pronotal width 

 of male .725 to .800 mm, of female .750 to .800 mm. 



Head as wide as or wider than pronotum; vertex no longer medially 

 than next to eye, interocular width more than three times median 

 length; ocellus located at a distance of from less than to equal to its 

 diameter from eye; anteclypeus parallel sided, slightly exceecUng 

 gena; postclypeal sutures curved mesally above antennal pits; 

 pronotum more than three times as long as vertex; hind femoral 

 chaetotaxy 2-1-1 ; female with posterior margin of abdominal sternum 

 VII sinuate posteriorly, with a sHghtly produced median tooth. 



Figure 35. — B. diluta: a, b, aedeagus, lateral view; c, style and connective, dorsal view; 

 d, valve and plate, ventral view; e, male pygofer, lateral view;/, female abdominal sternum 

 VII, ventral view. 



