BALCLUTHA — BLOCKER 



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Balclutlia incompta, new species 



Figure 8 



Length of male 3.2 mm; head Avidth .700 mm; pronotal width .800 

 mm; female unknown. 



Head narrower than pronotum ; vertex as long next to eye as medially, 

 interocular width more than three times median length; ocellus 

 located at a distance more than its diameter from eye; anteclypeus 

 widest apicallj^, shghtly exceeding gena; postclypeal sutures parallel 

 above antennal pits; pronotum more than three times as long as 

 vertex; hind femoral chaetotaxy 2-2-1. 



Male pygofer with less than 10 setae, postero ventral margin slightly 

 produced; plates slender, triangular, extending posteriorly as far 

 as pygofer apex; connective expanded apically, slightly bifid, equal 



Figure 8. — B. incompta: a, aedeagus, lateral view; b, style and connective, dorsal view; 

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



in length to style; stem and arms equal in length with angle between 

 arms rounded; style with preapical lobe rounded, apical extension 

 slightly curved and rounded apically; aedeagus simple, shaft gradually 

 tapered and ciu-ved dorsally, apex acute. 



Color green; face without oblique brown Unes; thoracic venter not 

 dark; fore wings subhyaline with green tint. 



Holotype male from Rio Huagra-Yacu, Oriente, Ecuador, April 

 1941, 900 meters (Clarke-Macintyre), on indefinite loan to the U.S. 

 National Museum from N.C. State University. 



B. incompta, new species, appears to be closely related to B. apicula, 

 new species, but can be distinguished by the shape of the aedeagus 

 (see key) . 



22G-9G4— 67— 2 



