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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Balclutha curvata Caldwell 



Figure 31 



Balclutha curvata Caldwell, 1952 in Caldwell and Martorell, Journ. Dept. Agric. 

 Porto Rico, vol. 34, p. 81. 



Length of male 2.7 to 2.9 mm; head -^vidth .750 to .850 mm; pronotal 

 width .700 to .775 mm; female measurements not included. 



Head wider than pronotum; vertex as long next to eye as medially 

 or slightly longer medially, interocular width approximately three 

 times median length; ocellus located at a distance approximately 

 equal to its diameter from eye; anteclypeus slightly Avider apically, 

 not exceeding gena; postclypeal sutures parallel above antennal pits; 



Figure 31. — B. curvata: a, aedeagus, lateral view; b, style and connective, dorsal view; 

 c, valve and plate, ventral view; d, male pygofer, lateral view, 



pronotum usually less than three times as long as vertex; hind femoral 

 chaetotaxy 2-1-1 or 2-2-1. 



Male pygofer and plates as B. flavescens; connective expanded 

 apically, truncate, apex rectangular, slightly longer than style, stem 

 slightly longer than arms; style with preapical lobe forming approxi- 

 mately a 45° angle, apical extension tapered, acute apically; aedeagus 

 mth dorsal apodeme prominent, approximately one-third as long as 

 shaft which is regularly but strongly curved anteriorly. 



Color light green to stramineous; face without obhque brown lines 

 on each side of midline or faint if present; thoracic venter not dark; 

 fo^e^\^ngs hyaline to subhyaline. 



