﻿art. 
  1 
  AMERICAN 
  PLOIARIINAE 
  McATEE 
  AND 
  MALLOCH 
  125 
  

  

  tion; 
  eighth 
  sternite 
  barely 
  visible; 
  ninth 
  short, 
  strongly 
  curved, 
  

   opening 
  upward; 
  claspers 
  oblong, 
  narrowed 
  apically. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Similar 
  in 
  general 
  to 
  male, 
  but 
  showing 
  traces 
  of 
  pale 
  

   leg 
  markings, 
  and 
  abdominal 
  marblings. 
  Abdomen 
  from 
  base 
  to 
  

   and 
  including 
  fifth 
  segment 
  like 
  that 
  of 
  male, 
  the 
  horns 
  of 
  fifth 
  

   tergite 
  shorter 
  however 
  (fig. 
  208) 
  ; 
  bulbosity 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  in 
  

   male, 
  due 
  to 
  greater 
  length 
  of 
  sixth 
  and 
  seventh 
  segments 
  which 
  

   may 
  be 
  said 
  to 
  form 
  part 
  of 
  it. 
  Hind 
  margin 
  of 
  seventh 
  tergite 
  

   with 
  the 
  median 
  point 
  and 
  lateral 
  angles 
  slightly 
  more 
  prominent 
  

   than 
  intervening 
  portions; 
  eighth 
  semicircular; 
  ninth 
  much 
  longer, 
  

   cuneate, 
  faintly 
  corrugated 
  basally 
  and 
  striate 
  apically, 
  the 
  apex 
  

   rounded, 
  margin 
  slightly 
  thickened 
  (fig. 
  209). 
  Sternites 
  up 
  to 
  6 
  

   inclusive 
  of 
  about 
  same 
  shape 
  as 
  in 
  male, 
  seventh 
  much 
  longer 
  on 
  

   median 
  line 
  than 
  fifth 
  and 
  sixth 
  together, 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  some- 
  

   what 
  convex 
  medianly 
  and 
  slightly 
  concave 
  laterally 
  ; 
  eighth 
  broadly 
  

   exposed 
  on 
  each 
  side. 
  

  

  Length, 
  27-29 
  mm. 
  

  

  Male 
  holotype, 
  female 
  allotype, 
  and 
  a 
  teneral 
  male, 
  Rio 
  Autuz, 
  

   Amazon, 
  Roman 
  (Stockholm 
  Mus.). 
  

  

  GHIILIANELLA 
  PERUVIANA, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Dark 
  castaneous, 
  pubescence 
  short 
  and 
  inconspicuous; 
  

   head 
  and 
  thorax 
  rather 
  strongly 
  granulate 
  ; 
  central 
  region 
  of 
  tergites 
  

   with 
  a 
  percurrent 
  ridge 
  ; 
  a 
  strong 
  blunt 
  tubercle 
  at 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  

   6 
  ; 
  seventh 
  with 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  bevelled 
  off 
  medianly 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  fairly 
  prominent 
  apex 
  of 
  longitudinal 
  ridge; 
  

   eighth 
  tergite 
  semicircular, 
  considerably 
  depressed 
  medianly, 
  with 
  a 
  

   low 
  carina 
  in 
  the 
  depression; 
  ninth 
  tergite 
  tapering 
  rather 
  rapidly, 
  

   rounded 
  and 
  slightly 
  emarginate 
  apically; 
  with 
  indistinct 
  corruga- 
  

   tions 
  and 
  no 
  prominent 
  longitudinal 
  or 
  marginal 
  ridges. 
  

  

  Length, 
  22 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Female, 
  El 
  Campamiento, 
  Col. 
  Perene, 
  Peru, 
  June 
  

   21, 
  1920, 
  Cornell 
  University 
  Expedition, 
  Lot 
  569 
  (Cornell 
  Univ.). 
  

  

  GHILIANELLA 
  ANNECTENS. 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  Emesa 
  angulata 
  Uhleb, 
  P. 
  R. 
  Heteroptera 
  of 
  St. 
  Vincent, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  

   Lond., 
  pp. 
  717-8, 
  Nov. 
  21, 
  1893 
  [Panama 
  specimens 
  in 
  part]. 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Testaceous, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  variegated 
  with 
  fuscous 
  and 
  

   washed 
  with 
  rufous; 
  thorax 
  and 
  head 
  decidedly 
  granular; 
  pu- 
  

   bescence 
  sparse; 
  abdomen 
  widening 
  gradually 
  to 
  apex 
  of 
  sixth 
  seg- 
  

   ment, 
  seventh 
  somewhat 
  narrower 
  but 
  nearly 
  parallel-sided 
  ; 
  tergites 
  

   with 
  a 
  percurrent 
  nodulose 
  median 
  ridge, 
  becoming 
  more 
  prominent 
  

   posteriorly 
  and 
  culminating 
  in 
  a 
  large 
  backward 
  sloping 
  tubercle 
  

   on 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  tergite 
  6; 
  posterior 
  angles 
  of 
  tergites 
  3-6 
  pro- 
  

   gressively 
  elevated 
  and 
  expanded, 
  thus 
  interrupting 
  the 
  lateral 
  out- 
  

  

  