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Material examined: One male, Barro Colorado Island, Panama 

 Canal Zone, Nov. 22, 1944, K. E. Frick collector, CAS; one male, 

 Corozal, Panama Canal Zone, June 6, 1937, author's collection. 



Ghilianella globifera Bergroth 



Figures 24, 66, 87, 122 



Ghilianella globifera Bergroth, 1906, pp. 319-320 (Venezuela, male). — McAtee 

 and Malloch, 1925, p. 110. 



Female: Head and thorax brown, interantennal spine straw colored 

 or brown. Beak and antenna darkening to blackish toward apex. 

 Middle and hind femora brownish with three broad yellowish annuli 

 on apical half. Middle and hind tibiae straw colored or brownish. 

 Tarsi dark brown. Abdomen brown, irregularly spotted with black 

 small areas. 



Body and legs with scarce and very short appressed yellowish 

 pilosity. 



Head granulate; eyes moderately small. Interantennal spine long 

 and straight. 



Thoracic segments granulate; lengths of segments: 2.9, 3.7, 2.3 mm. 

 Claws of foretarsi two, the inner shorter and closely appressed to 

 base of outer. First spine of forefemur at nearly three times its 

 length from tip of trochanter; basal half of forefemur gradually 

 thickened to base of first spine. The inner row of armature of fore- 

 femur consisting of setae arising from wartlike bases. 



Abdomen with elongate bulbous swelling. Abdomen parallel 

 sided to before apex of third segment, apex of third segment slightly 

 widening and forming minor part of bulbosity; fourth widening to 

 before apex and constituting widest part of bulbosity; from apex of 

 fourth to apex of abdomen gradually narrowing. Hind margin of 

 second to fourth tergum nearly straight; of fifth shallowly concave; 

 the others as in figure 87. Third tergum the longest, each succeeding 

 tergum shorter than the preceding. Seventh tergum slightly broader 

 than long, hind margin very shallowly concave. Eighth tergum 

 nearly horizontal, hexagonal or semicircular, with a median elevation 

 that slightly widens toward apex, shallow depressions at either side 

 of median elevation. Ninth tergum one and one-half times as long 

 as eighth, tapering to a round apex, margins slightly elevated, with 

 broad inconspicuous median elevation, irregularly transversely 

 corrugated (fig. 122). Hind margins of second and third sterna 

 straight; of fourth with a broadly shallow V-shaped indentation; of 

 fifth and sixth very deeply emarginate; of seventh with a round 

 median projection. Seventh sternum over twice as long as sixth 

 (fig. 66). 



