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Figure 35.- — CuUcoides evansi, new species, a-e, Female: a, wing; b, thoracic pattern; c, 

 palpus; d, tibial comb; e, spermathecae. /, g, Male:/, parameres; g, genitalia, parameres 

 removed. 



spots; no pale spots or areas straddling or lying next to vein Mi; 

 cell Ml with a small round pale spot lying far from wing margin; a 

 pale spot straddling middle of vein M2, a small pale spot lying near 

 wing margin in apex of cell M2 and another in cell M4; only one pale 

 spot in apex of anal cell and a small pale spot lying behind medial 

 fork. Macrotrichia dense and very long over entire wing; costa 

 extending to 0.57 (0.55-0.58, n=10) of distance to wing tip. Halter 

 pale. 



Abdomen. — Blackish brown. Spermathecae two, subequal, pyri- 

 form, measuring 0.071 by 0.047 mm. and 0.072 by 0.041 mm., the 

 bases of the ducts sclerotized a considerable distance. 



Male genitalia: Ninth sternum with a broad, deep, caudomedian 

 excavation; ninth tergum long and tapering with small apicolateral 

 processes. Basistyle with ventral root foot-shaped, very slender, the 



