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Middle and hind femora each with irregular longitudinal rows of 

 brownish spots. Middle and hind tibiae each with narrow subbasal 

 blackish band. Abdominal segments yellowish brown, irregularly 

 variegated with blackish brown, third to sixth sterna each with an 

 elongate dot at each side of median line. 



Body and legs with very scarce appressed silvery pilosity. 



Head sparsely granulose; eyes small. Interantennal spine well 

 developed, straight. 



Thoracic segments sparsely granulate; lengths of segments: 2.5, 

 2.0, 1.7 mm. Armature of forefemur with inner row consisting of 

 short setae arising from warts, a single preapical stout spine. Claws 

 of foretarsi two, the inner very short and closely appressed to base of 

 outer. First spine of forefemur at twice its length from tip of tro- 

 chanter. Basal half of forefemur gradually thickened to first spine. 



Abdomen on dorsal aspect parallel sided; apical angles of second 

 to sixth terga not produced; hind margins of terga with small median 

 blackish warts, straight. Seventh tergum slightly longer than sixth, 

 surpassing claspers by a clasper length, medianly carinate to middle 

 of segment, constriction inconspicuous or obsolete, very slightly 

 longer than distance from end of constriction to apex of tergum. 

 Hind margins of second to fourth sterna straight or very shallowly 

 concave medianly; of fifth and sixth concave medianly and convex 

 laterally; of seventh and eighth straight. Sixth sternum twice as 

 long as seventh. Eighth sternum visible on its entire width, hind 

 margin laterally concave. Hypopj^gium opening upwards, claspers 

 relatively broad, twice as long as broad (fig. 9). 



Overall body length 18.0 mm. 



In the key this species is close to productilis and monense, but 

 it can be easily separated from these by its small size. Figures 53 

 and 143 show the genital segments of the female. 



Types: Hypotype, male, Soledad, Cuba, February 11, 1925, J. G. 

 Myers collector, MCZ 29467. Parahypotypes, two males, one with 

 same data as hypotype, the other intercepted at New Orleans in 

 pineapples from Cuba by Hadden and Pritchett (this specimen 

 labeled G. bicaudata by H. G. Barber), in USNM. Females identified: 

 two from Soledad, Cuba, one collected on August 1920 by Banks 

 and the other on February 1925, by Myers, both in MCZ. 



Ghilianella borincuna, new species 



Figures 23, 3G, 72, 108 



Ghilianella longida, Barber, not McAtee and Malloch, 1939, p. 388. 



Male: Body and head blackish brown. Interantennal spine 

 stramineous. Beak brown, first segment paler, second with paler 



