GHILIANELLA ASSASSIN BUGS — MALDONADO-CAPRILES 427 



long as sixth medianly; hind margin slightly produced medianly (fig. 

 63). 



Overall body length 21.0 mm. 



0. grapta, signata, and ignorata are the only species with extensive 

 pilose spots; they can be easily separated by the characters in the keys. 



Types: Holotype, male, Merida, Venezuela, no other data, PW. 

 Allotype, female, Merida, Venezuela, 1883, USNM. Paratypes, two 

 males, Venezuela, Brunner collector, one in USNM and other in 

 author's collection. 



Ghilianella haitiana, new species 



Figures 1, 32, 79, 83, 88, 123 



Male: Head brownish, with paler median longitudinal band. First 

 antennal segment with seven yellowish annuli, remaining segments 

 uniformly brownish, last two with short silvery pilosity. First and 

 second segments of beak with brownish basal halves, apical halves 

 yellowish white; third segment brownish. Thoracic segments brown. 

 Prothorax with three longitudinal yellowish brown lines above. 

 Forelegs, middle and hind femora brownish, irregular, and conspicu- 

 ously marked with stramineous; tarsi brownish. Middle and hind 

 tibiae brownish, each with two yellowish basal bands. Abdomen 

 brown, darker ventrally; terga inconspicuously spotted with strami- 

 neous; posterolateral angles yellowish. 



Very scarce and short silvery decumbent pilosity over body. 



Head as in figures 79 and 83, heavily granulose, grains behind 

 interocular depression raised into two very short horns; interantennal 

 spine short, pointing upward. Fourth antennal segment three times 

 as long as third. 



Thoracic segments granulate; lengths of segments: 1.9, 1.0, 0.7 mm. 

 Prothorax on lateral aspect as in figure 83. Armature of forefemur 

 with inner row consisting of bristles arising from wartlike bases, a 

 strong spine at end of row. Claws of foretarsi two, the inner very 

 short and closely appresscd to base of outer. First spine of forefemur 

 at its own length from tip of trochanter. Basal half of forefemur 

 gradually thickening to first spine. 



Abdomen without bulbous swelling, parallel sided in dorsal aspect; 

 as seen from side deepest at middle. Apical angles of terga slightly 

 produced. Hind margin of terga with blackish wart. First tergum 

 slightly elevated, with median longitudinal ridge. Sixth tergum 

 three-fourths as long as seventh, hind margin with a backward 

 sloping tubercle. Seventh tergum with apical half transversely 

 corrugate and roundly tapering to a sharp point, apex not surpassing 

 hypopygium, longitudinally carinate (fig. 32). Hind margins of second 

 to sixth and eighth sterna straight; of seventh sternum concave 



