GH1LIANELLA ASSASSIN BUGS — MALDONADO-CAPRILES 429 



Overall body length 1G.0 mm. 



The backward sloping tubercle on the sixth tergum, the projecting 

 posterolateral angles of the terga, and the heavily granulated body 

 will separate this species from the other short ones; additional infor- 

 mation is given in the discussion of nanna above. There is the 

 possibility that the sexes of haitiana have been erroneously associated. 



Types: Holotype, male, Kenscoff, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 

 Darlington collector, October 13, 1934, 4-6,000 ft. elevation, MCZ 

 29465. Allotype, female, Kenscoff, Haiti, April 30, 1937, Chester 

 Rays collector, MUM. 



Ghilianella longula McAtee and Malloch 



Figure 3 

 Ghilianella longula McAtee and Malloch, 1925, p. 104 (female). 



Male: Thorax and abdomen blackish brown. Head brown. 

 Interantennal spine and beak paler. Antenna brown, last two seg- 

 ments silvery where pilose. Legs light brown, unmarked; forelegs 

 slightly paler. Mesothorax and metathorax with anterolateral paler 

 areas due to the concentration of pilosity. 



Body covered with abundant short, appressed, silvery pilosity 

 easily discernible against the dark background. 



Head very sparsely granulose; eyes small. Interantennal spine 

 long and straight. 



Thoracic segments not granulose; lengths of segments: 3.7, 3.7, 

 3.1 mm. Claws of foretarsi two, the inner one short and appressed to 

 the base of the outer. Armature of forefemur with inner row consist- 

 ing of long setae arising from wartlike bases. 



Abdomen on dorsal aspect parallel sided. Apical angles of terga 

 not produced, hind margins of terga with small inconspicuous black- 

 ish warts. Hind margin of sixth tergum straight. Seventh tergum 

 shorter than sixth, not surpassing claspers, without constriction on 

 lateral margin, tapering from about middle to a sharp caudal point, 

 transversely corrugate, with inconspicuous median ridge. Hind 

 margins of second to fifth sterna straight, hind margin of sixth con- 

 cave on median line and convex laterally; hind margins of seventh 

 and eighth very shallowly concave medianly. Eighth sternum visi- 

 ble its entire width. Hypopygium opening upwards; claspers on 

 lateral aspect elongate, broader basally, apex sharp and pointing 

 cephalad (fig. 3). Upper lateral margin of hypopygium shallowly 

 concave; apical process of hypopygium receding from apical margin, 

 its base hidden by apices of claspers, sides slightly concave, apex 

 somewhat expanded laterally. 



Overall body length 29.0 mm. 



