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claspers broad (fig. 16). Upper lateral margin of hypopygiuin stepped, 

 claspers fitting in the concavity. 



Overall body length 24.0 mm. 



0. (jrapta and ignorata are the only two other species with sueh 

 extensive yellowish pilose spots, but ean be separated from signata by 

 the characters in the key. 



Types: Hypotypc, male, Santa Marta Mountains, Mount San 

 Lorenzo, Colombia, 3,500 ft, elevation, June 8, 1920, F. M. Gaiger 

 collector, MUM. Parahypotypes, three males, Vista Bella, Colombia, 

 F. VY. Walker collector, one each in USNM, author's collection, and 

 MUM. 



Gliilianella signoreti (Dohrn) 

 Figures 6, 73, 140 



Emesa signoreti Dohrn, 1860, p. 227, fig. 1 (Jamaica, female). 

 (rhilianella signoreti (Dohrn), McAtee and Malloch, 1925, p. 97. — W}'godzinsky, 

 1951, p. 225. 



Male: Uniformly blackish brown or yellowish brown. 



Body well covered with short, appressed silvery pilosity that give 

 the insect a grayish aspect. Pilosity slightly more abundant at base 

 of interantennal spine and at metathorax. Pilosity on first two 

 antcnnal segments and on legs scarce. 



Head distinctly granulose; eyes small; fourth antenna! segment 

 slightly less than twice as long as third. Well-developed interantennal 

 spine; slightly decurved. 



Prothorax slightly granulose, mesothorax and metathorax incon- 

 spicuously granulose; lengths of segments: 3.0, 3.0, 2.5 mm. Arma- 

 ture of forefemur with inner row consisting of fine setae arising from 

 wartlike bases. Claws of foretarsi two, the inner shorter than the 

 outer. First spine of forefemur at three times its length from tip of 

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



Abdomen in dorsal aspect parallel sided. Tcrga with apical angles 

 not produced; hind margin with small wart, straight. Seventh 

 tergum very slightly shorter than sixth, constriction very shallow 

 and somewhat long, apical half irregularly wrinkled. Hind margins 

 of second to fifth sterna nearly straight; of sixth concave medianly 

 and convex on sides; of seventh and eighth shallowly concave on 

 sides and slightly convex medianly. Eighth sternum visible its 

 entire width. Hypopygium opening upward; clasper wider near 

 base, much narrower apically; apex curved mesad and pointing 

 cephalad (fig. 6). Upper lateral margin of hypopygium angularly 

 bent near middle, sides ledged; apical process of hypopygium devel- 

 oped, small, its apex reaching to slightly above apical upper margin 

 of clasper, parallel sided to apex, apex very shallowly concave. 



Overall body length 24 mm. 



