﻿akt. 
  1 
  AMERICAN 
  PLOIARIINAE 
  McATEE 
  AND 
  MALLOCH 
  121 
  

  

  moderately 
  prominent 
  medianly 
  and 
  laterally, 
  thus 
  being 
  slightly 
  

   bisinuate; 
  eighth 
  tergite 
  much 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  

   apically, 
  strongly 
  corrugated 
  and 
  keeled 
  ; 
  ninth 
  tergite 
  pale 
  basally, 
  

   with 
  broad, 
  rounded, 
  low, 
  pale 
  side 
  margins; 
  disk 
  dark, 
  corrugated, 
  

   and 
  keeled, 
  the 
  apex 
  narrowed 
  and 
  bent 
  so 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  at 
  right 
  angles 
  

   to 
  general 
  plane 
  of 
  tergite 
  (fig. 
  198) 
  ; 
  ventral 
  sutures 
  little 
  special- 
  

   ized; 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  seventh 
  sternite 
  slightly 
  angulate-produced 
  

   medianly, 
  concave 
  laterally; 
  eighth 
  sternite 
  rather 
  broadly 
  exposed 
  

   each 
  side, 
  the 
  spiracle, 
  however, 
  only 
  barely 
  visible, 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  

   deeply 
  rounded 
  emarginate 
  medianly. 
  

  

  Length, 
  25 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Female, 
  Hacienda 
  Cincinnati, 
  Sierra 
  San 
  Lorenzo, 
  

   Magdalena, 
  Colombia, 
  Trail 
  to 
  Vista 
  Nieve, 
  4,500-4,700 
  feet, 
  July 
  21, 
  

   1920, 
  J. 
  A. 
  G. 
  Rehn 
  (Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sci. 
  Phila.) 
  ; 
  female 
  paratype, 
  Vista 
  

   Nieve, 
  Colombia, 
  Dec. 
  16, 
  1922 
  (C. 
  Carriker). 
  

  

  GHILIANELLA 
  STRIGATA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  General 
  color 
  yellowish-brown, 
  legs 
  with 
  faint 
  yellowish 
  

   annuli 
  in 
  the 
  standard 
  positions; 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  are 
  only 
  ob- 
  

   soletely 
  warty, 
  almost 
  smooth; 
  the 
  mesothorax 
  and 
  the 
  metathorax 
  

   with 
  a 
  few 
  warts 
  on 
  the 
  sides; 
  abdomen 
  abruptly 
  expanded 
  at 
  pos- 
  

   terior 
  third 
  of 
  segment 
  4, 
  segment 
  5 
  widest, 
  the 
  tergite 
  with 
  rounded 
  

   elevations 
  laterally 
  ; 
  segments 
  2-5 
  each 
  with 
  a 
  wart-like 
  elevation 
  on 
  

   middle 
  of 
  hind 
  margin, 
  most 
  conspicuous 
  on 
  4; 
  segment 
  6 
  rapidly 
  

   tapering 
  to 
  about 
  half 
  width 
  of 
  5 
  ; 
  tergite 
  7 
  half 
  again 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  6, 
  

   transversely 
  corrugated 
  posteriorly, 
  moderately 
  acuminate 
  and 
  ex- 
  

   tending 
  slightly 
  beyond 
  hypopygium; 
  sternites 
  6-8 
  rounded 
  emar- 
  

   ginate 
  medianly, 
  arcuate 
  laterally, 
  the 
  eighth 
  about 
  a 
  third 
  as 
  wide 
  

   as 
  seventh, 
  the 
  spiracle 
  conspicuously 
  pedunculate; 
  ninth 
  sternite 
  

   longest 
  on 
  lower 
  half, 
  which 
  forms 
  apically 
  a 
  prominent 
  rounded 
  

   angle 
  from 
  which 
  arises 
  the 
  long 
  anteriorly 
  and 
  upw 
  T 
  ardly 
  directed 
  

   genital 
  hook, 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  bluntly 
  trilobate; 
  claspers 
  and 
  

   fourth 
  sternite 
  as 
  described 
  in 
  key 
  (fig. 
  199). 
  

  

  Length, 
  22-23 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Male, 
  San 
  Carlos, 
  Costa 
  Rica; 
  paratype 
  male, 
  Costa 
  

   Rica, 
  Schild 
  and 
  Burgdorf 
  (U.S.N.M.). 
  

  

  Type 
  and 
  paratype.— 
  Cut 
  No. 
  26752, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  GHILIANELLA 
  SUBGLOBULATA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  MaU. 
  — 
  Practically 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  globulata 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  

   particulars. 
  Pedicel 
  of 
  abdomen 
  is 
  shorter 
  and 
  thicker, 
  each 
  of 
  seg- 
  

   ments 
  2-4 
  being 
  shorter 
  than 
  width 
  of 
  bulbosity 
  which 
  the 
  corre- 
  

   sponding 
  segments 
  of 
  globulata 
  equal 
  ; 
  sixth 
  tergite 
  not 
  longer 
  than 
  

   wide 
  at 
  base, 
  while 
  it 
  is 
  distinctly 
  longer 
  in 
  globulata. 
  Ninth 
  sternite 
  

   not 
  opening 
  so 
  nearly 
  posteriorly 
  as 
  in 
  globulata, 
  the 
  hook 
  higher 
  

  

  