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Holotype not located; however, the holotypes of E. hisinuatus 

 DeLong, E. bifiircata DeLong and Davidson, and E. pallidiis Osborn 

 have been exammed. This is one of the most common species found 

 in tropical and subtropical areas. Numerous specimens have been 

 examined from Florida, Georgia, Mississippi (one specimen). North 

 Carolina (one specimen), and Texas. Specimens from Mexico, Puerto 

 Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Domhiican Republic, British Honduras, Panama, 

 Guatemala, Costa Rica, Surmam, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, 

 Bolivia, and Paraguay have also been exammed. Host data taken 

 from labels include Flaveria linearis Jjaq., Panicum pnrpurascensJinddi, 

 P. barbinode Trhi., and Johnson grass. F. linearis is a member of the 

 family Compositae. Since grasses and sedge are considered to be 

 the food hosts of Balclutha species, there is some question about the 

 authenticity of this plant as a food host. 



B. hebe (Ku-kaldy) appears to be related to B. gvajanae (DeLong) 

 but can be easily distuiguished by the three pau's of processes arising 

 from the base of the aedcagus in hebe. 



Balclutlia floridana (DeLong and Davidson) 



Figure 22 



Eugnathodus floridana DeLons; and Davidson, 1933a, Oliio Journ. Scl., vol. 33, 



p. 56. 

 Nesosteles marquesana Osborn, 1934, Bull. Bernice P. Bishop ]\Ius., vol. 114, p. 265. 



Length of male 2.5 to 3.4 mm, of female 2.5 to 3.5 mm; head ^ndth 

 of male .625 to .775 mm, of female .625 to .825 mm; pronotal width of 

 male .625 to .750 mm, of female .600 to .800 mm. 



Head as wide as or wider than pronotum; vertex as long next to eye 

 as medially or occasionally slightly longer medially, interocular width 

 more than three times median length ; ocellus located at a distance of 

 from less than to equal to its diameter from eye; antech^peus ^ndest 

 apicall}', exceeding gena; postclypeal sutures usually parallel above 

 antennal pits; pronotum three times as long as vertex; hind femoral 

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

 VII rounded posteriorly, shghtly sinuate. 



Male pygofer with less than 15 setae; plates triangular, apical half 

 constricted, extending posteriorly as far as pygofer apex; connective 

 wide, expanded apically and bifid, distinctive, approximately equal 

 in length to style; style mth preapical lobe rounded, apical extension 

 slightly curved and acute apically, anterior margin oblique; aedeagus 

 with shaft long and slender, curved sharpl}^ dorsally then anteriorly, 

 commonly extending into abdominal segment VIII. 



Color from Ught green to stramineous; face without oblique bro\\Ti 

 lines; thoracic venter not dark; forewings h^'ahne to subhyahne 

 commonly tinted as body color. 



