BALCLUTHA — BLOCKER 



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The male holotype, La Belle, Fla., Apr. 21, 1921, is in the DeLong 

 collection and has been examined. This species is commonly found 

 in tropical and subtropical areas. Specimens have been examined 



Figure 22. — B. floridana: a, aedeagus, lateral view; b, style and connective, dorsal view; 

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

 VII, ventral view. 



from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Mexico, Puerto Rico, 

 Cuba, Haiti, Dominican RepubUc, Jamaica, British Honduras, 

 Panama, Guatemala, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. 



B. floridana (DeLong and Davidson) is related to B. fuscina, new 

 species, but can be distinguished by the absence of processes on the 

 shaft of the aedeagus and by the head width which is as wide as or 

 wdder than the pronotum m. floridana. 



Balclutlia neglecta (DeLong and Davidson) 



Figure 23 



Eugnathodus neglecta DeLong and Davidson, 1933a, Ohio Journ. Sci., vol. 33, 

 p. 55. 



Length of male 2.8 to 3.8 mm, of female 3.2 to 4.0 mm; head width 

 of male .675 to .875 mm, of female .775 to .900 mm; pronotal mdth of 

 male .675 to .875 mm, of female .725 to .925 mm. 



Head as wide as or wdder than pronotum; vertex usually as long 

 next to eye as medially (longer medially in some specimens), interocu- 

 lar width more than three times median length; ocellus variable, 

 located at a distance of from less than to greater than its diameter 



