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Types: Holotype, male, Espirito Santo, Brazil, collection of 

 Frukstorfer, USNM 63089. Paratype, same data, PW. 



Ghilianella clavellata, new species 



Figures 50, 107, 124 



Female: Head brownish to black. Thorax dark brown to black. 

 Abdomen dorsally dark brown; connexivium to near apex of fourth 

 tergum yellowish. Fifth to seventh terga each with two broad 

 irregular longitudinal paler areas and connexivial margins yellowish. 

 Eighth tergum with transverse elevation straw colored, median line 

 and edges blackish brown. Ninth tergum with basal half pale 

 brownish, apical half and lateral edges of basal half blackish brown. 

 First three abdominal sterna brownish. Fourth to fifth sterna 

 blackish; median ventral line from base of fourth to apex of seventh 

 sternum straw colored. Fifth to seventh sterna blackish with pale 

 brownish irregular areas about midway from median line to lateral 

 edges and at lateral edges. Front legs brownish, femur with incon- 

 spicuous yellowish band near middle and at apical three-fourths; 

 middle and hind femora brownish, a yellowish band at middle and at 

 apical three-fourths. 



With short, appressed, very sparse silvery pilosity over body; 

 slightly heavier on underside of head. Third antennal segment 

 conspicuously covered with short hairs; fourth segment hairy on 

 apical half. 



Head distinctly granulose. Interantennal spine short, straight. 

 Fourth antennal segment twice as long as third. 



Thoracic segments granulate; lengths: 2.8, 5.0, 2.9 mm. Claws of 

 foretarsi two; the inner short, closely appressed to base of outer. 

 Armature of forefemur with inner row consisting of alternating slightly 

 longer fine hairs and short spines, the hairs arising from wartlike bases. 

 First spine of forefemur at two and one-half times its own length from 

 tip of trochanter. Basal half of forefemur gradually thickened to 

 first spine. 



Figures 100-123. — 100, Ghilianella signata, male, pilose spots on fourth and fifth terga. 

 101, G. grapta, female, same. 102, G. grapta, male, same. 103, G. calva, female, dorsal 

 view of apex of abdomen. 104, G. assanutrix, female, seventh tergum. 105, G. 

 productilis, female, apical margin of seventh tergum. 106, G. aracataca, female, dorsal 

 view of last abdominal segments. 107, G. clavellata, same. 108, G. borincana, male, 

 projection of apical angle of hypopygium. 109, G. subglobulata, female, hind margin of 

 seventh tergum. 110, G. succinta, female, seventh tergum. Ill, G. nanna, female, 

 apex of abdomen from behind. 112, G. amicula, same. 113, G. angulata, same. 114, 

 G. spinicaudata, same. 115, G. galapagensis, same. 116, G. alterata, same. 117, G. 

 aliena, same. 118, G. assanutrix, same. 119, G. stipitata, same. 120, G. panamana, 

 same. 121, G. calva, same. 122, G. globifera, same. 123, G. haitiana, same. 



