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Abdomen more or less carinate or keeled below. Front tibia with 

 a patch of short pale golden hairs on inner side apically and a tuft 

 of longer ones at the apex inferiorly. Middle and hind legs and 

 antenna much longer than body. When the legs have pale markings, 

 they arc almost invariably as follows: middle and hind femora with 

 two postmedian bands and a subapical spot, and tibiae with a sub- 

 basal spot; in the pale species, dark markings tend to appear at these 

 same places; frontal and femoral spines mostly pale. 



Subgenus Ghilianella Spinola, 1850: claws of forctarsi two, the inner 

 short, closely applied to the base of outer. 



Subgenus Ploeodonyx McAtee and Malloch, 1925: claw of foretarsus 

 single; claw separated from tarsus by a suture; forefemur rather 

 slender as a whole, but notably thicker near base than at first strong 

 spine. 



Subgenus Lissonyx McAtee and Malloch, 1925: claw of foretarsus 

 single; claw entirely fused with tarsus; forefemur rather stout, little 

 if any thicker at base than at first strong spine. 



Table I, below, is the checklist of the known species of Ghilianella 

 in the Americas. Included are 88 species of which the males of 56 

 and the females of GO are known. The origin of the holotype is also 

 given. The keys to both sexes follow the table. 



Table 1. — Checklist of species of Ghilianella, origin of the holotype, and the sexes 



known 



Species '■ 



aliena McAtee and Malloch, 1925 



alterala McAtee and Malloch, 1925 



alveola McAtee and Malloch, 1925 



amicula (Ploeodonyx) McAtee and Malloch, 



1925 

 analis (Dohrn), 1860 

 andersoni Brindley, 1931 

 angulala (Lissonyx) (Uhler), 1893 

 annectens McAtee and Malloch, 1925 

 annulata (Dohrn), 1863 

 apicidata McAtee and Malloch, 1925 

 approximata McAtee and Malloch, 1925 

 aracataca McAtee and Malloch, 1925 

 assanutrix Bergroth, 1906 

 atabapo Maldonado, 1953 

 atriclava Bergroth, 1911 

 bethei Dohrn, 1863 



bicaudata McAtee and Malloch, 1925 

 borincana, new species 

 brasiliensis (Dohrn), 1860 

 brevicornis Brindley, 1931 



See footnote at end of table. 



