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aedeagus broad basally, shaft irregularly curved dorsally, conspicu- 

 ously expanded apically, in posteroventral view with a pair of small 

 triangular processes present on lateral margin, deeply bifid apicaUy. 



Color green; face without oblique brown lines; thoracic venter dark; 

 fore wings subhy aline. 



Holotype male, Orizaba, V. C. [Mexico], Oct. 8, 1941 (DeLong, 

 Good, Caldwell, and Plummer), and male paratjrpes, same data, in 

 the DeLong collection. This species was described from a series of 

 six male and five female specimens. An additional specimen from 

 Fortin, V. C, Mexico, Oct, 9, 1941, was also examined. 



B. diversa, new species, is very closely related to B. abdominalis 

 amplissima, new subspecies, but can be distinguished by the shape of 

 the aedeagus which is conspicuously more expanded apically and more 

 deeply bifid. 



Balclutha disttncta Linuavuori 



Figure 14 

 Balclutha distinda Linnuvuori, 1959, Ann. Zool. Soc. 'Vanamo,' vol. 20, p. 345. 



Length of male 3.8 mm; head mdth .800 mm; pronotal width .875 

 mm; female unkno\vn. 



Head narrower than pronotum; vertex slightly longer medially than 

 next to eye, interocular width approximately three times median 

 length; ocellus located at a distance of approximately IK times its 

 diameter from eye; anteclyjDeus wider apically, exceeding gena; 

 postclypeal sutiu"es parallel above antennal pits; pronotum three 

 times as long as vertex. 



Male pygofer with less than 10 setae, narrowed posteriorly, dorsal 

 and posteroventral margins heavily sclerotized; plates slender, tri- 

 angular, not extending as far posteriorly as pygofer apex; connective 

 expanded apically and truncate; stem slightly longer than arms which 

 are thickened, with angle between arms acute; style with preapical 

 lobe rounded, apical extension cm-ved laterally, rounded apically; 

 aedeagus broad basally, shaft with irregular margins, curved dorsally, 

 in posteroventral view with small lateral triangular processes, apex 

 deeply bifid, expanded. 



Color tan to green. 



The male holotype, Coronado, Costa Rica, Aug. 15, 1931 (F. 

 Nevermann), in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, 

 has been examined. An additional male specimen from Costa Rica 

 in the U.S. National Museum has also been examined. 



