﻿art. 
  13 
  CKYPTOSTEMMATID 
  BUGS 
  McATEE 
  AND 
  MALLOCH 
  21 
  

  

  28, 
  30; 
  one 
  male 
  paratype, 
  Livingston, 
  Guatemala, 
  May 
  4, 
  E. 
  A. 
  

   Schwarz 
  and 
  H. 
  S. 
  Barber; 
  four 
  females 
  from 
  Panama 
  also 
  appear 
  

   to 
  belong 
  to 
  this 
  species; 
  two 
  from 
  Paraiso, 
  April 
  30, 
  1911, 
  one 
  from 
  

   Bohio, 
  February 
  7, 
  1911, 
  and 
  one 
  from 
  Portobello, 
  February 
  21, 
  1911, 
  

   E. 
  A. 
  Schwarz. 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  27591, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  SCHIZOPTERA 
  (SCHIZOPTERA) 
  CAUDATA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Brownish 
  black, 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  pronotum 
  narrowly 
  yel- 
  

   lowish, 
  costa, 
  commissure, 
  and 
  membrane 
  of 
  fore 
  wing 
  also 
  yellow, 
  

   the 
  latter 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  apical 
  brownish 
  spot, 
  legs 
  yellow, 
  femora 
  

   sometimes 
  darker. 
  Pilosity 
  as 
  in 
  last 
  two 
  species 
  but 
  shorter. 
  Frons 
  

   nearly 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  one 
  eye. 
  Dorsal 
  hairs 
  short 
  and 
  decum- 
  

   bent. 
  Pronotum 
  trisinuate 
  posteriorly; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  with 
  small 
  

   subapical 
  notches; 
  metapleurum 
  reticulate, 
  moderately 
  shining, 
  uni- 
  

   colorous. 
  Fifth 
  sternite 
  longer 
  than 
  usual, 
  acute 
  and 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   curled 
  apically 
  (fig. 
  70). 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Differs 
  from 
  the 
  male 
  in 
  lacking 
  yellow 
  markings 
  other 
  

   than 
  that 
  covering 
  most 
  of 
  membrane. 
  Length, 
  1.5-1.75 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Male, 
  allotype, 
  and 
  one 
  male 
  paratype, 
  Tampico, 
  Mex- 
  

   ico, 
  December 
  15, 
  18, 
  and 
  14, 
  respectively, 
  E. 
  A. 
  Schwarz. 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  

  

  27592, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  SCHIZOPTERA 
  (SCHIZOPTERA) 
  MEXICANA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Blackish 
  fuscous; 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  pronotum 
  narrowly 
  yel- 
  

   lowish 
  ; 
  membrane 
  of 
  fore 
  wing 
  whitish, 
  the 
  dark 
  color 
  of 
  corium 
  ex- 
  

   tending 
  rather 
  broadly 
  over 
  bases 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  veins, 
  the 
  apex 
  with 
  

   a 
  large 
  brownish 
  spot 
  which 
  is 
  rounded 
  anteriorly; 
  femora 
  mostly 
  

   brown, 
  tibiae 
  brown 
  except 
  apices. 
  Distance 
  between 
  eyes 
  at 
  vertex 
  

   about 
  2.5 
  as 
  great 
  as 
  one 
  eye 
  ; 
  hairs 
  on 
  frons 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  those 
  

   on 
  pronotum 
  and 
  veins 
  of 
  corium, 
  the 
  latter 
  very 
  short. 
  Hind 
  mar- 
  

   gin 
  of 
  pronotum 
  slightly 
  emarginate 
  medianly, 
  scutellum 
  with 
  

   minute 
  subapical 
  notches. 
  Corium 
  granulose; 
  anterior 
  cross- 
  vein 
  

   not 
  over 
  one-fifth 
  from 
  apex 
  of 
  discal 
  cell. 
  Metapleurum 
  uniform 
  in 
  

   color 
  and 
  sculpture, 
  rather 
  dull. 
  Fifth 
  sternite 
  as 
  in 
  figure 
  71. 
  

   Length, 
  1.5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Holotype. 
  — 
  Tampico, 
  Mexico, 
  December, 
  E. 
  A. 
  Schwarz. 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  

  

  27593, 
  U.S.N.M. 
  

  

  SCHIZOPTERA 
  (SCHIZOPTERA) 
  PARAGUAYANA, 
  new 
  species 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Ground 
  color 
  more 
  brownish 
  than 
  in 
  mexicana, 
  pronotum 
  

   without 
  yellow 
  hind 
  margin, 
  corium 
  with 
  pale 
  edgings, 
  the 
  dark 
  color 
  

   of 
  corium 
  extending 
  posteriorly 
  but 
  little 
  upon 
  membrane, 
  the 
  latter 
  

   without 
  dark 
  spot 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  legs 
  yellow 
  ; 
  pubescence 
  short 
  and 
  sparse. 
  

   Distance 
  between 
  eyes 
  at 
  vertex 
  about 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  one 
  

   eye. 
  Pronotum 
  slightly 
  trisinuate 
  posteriorly, 
  scutellum 
  with 
  sub- 
  

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