GHILIANELLA ASSASSIN BUGS — MALDONADO-CAPRILES 431 



of hypopygium with small concavity above where basal angle of claspcr 

 fits, apical process with a large hook, slightly separated from the 

 sternum, its apex hidden by the large claspers (fig. 4). 



Overall body length 18.5 mm. 



The huge subtriangular claspers easily separate this species from all 

 others. 



Type: Holotype, male, Tingo Marfa, Peru, 670 meters elevation, 

 September 1947, Weyrauch collector, USNM 63092. 



Ghilianella monetise Maldonado 



Figures 59, 61, 90, 139 

 Ghilianella monetise Maldonado, 1953, p. 195 (male). 



Female: Brown, paler than the male. Interantennal spine straw 

 colored. Legs somewhat paler than remaining parts of body, incon- 

 spicuously banded with yellow. Venter of abdomen irregularly 

 variegated with blackish and brown. 



Prothorax with scarce pilosity. Mesothorax caudally with slightly 

 denser pilosity. Metathorax with heavier pilosity on sides and below. 

 Second to fifth abdominal segments, above and on sides, with some- 

 what heavier pilosity on basal halves, giving the abdomen a faint 

 banded appearance; banding difficult to see except in reflected light, 

 less conspicuous than in the male. 



Head sparsely granulate; eyes small. Long interantennal spine, 

 slightly decurved. Fourth antennal segment twice as long as third. 



Thoracic segments very sparsely granulate; lengths of segments: 

 3.1, 3.1, 2.6 mm. Claws of foretarsi two, the inner very short and 

 closely appressed to outer. First spine of forefemur at three times 

 its own length from tip of trochanter; basal half of forefemur gradually 

 thickened to first spine. Armature of forefemur with inner row con- 

 sisting of bristles arising from wartlike bases. 



Abdomen almost parallel sided; posterior angles of terga not pro- 

 duced; terga each with low longitudinal median ridge. Hind margin 

 of each terga straight, with small black median wart. Fifth tergum 

 longer than sixth; sixth longer than seventh (2.9, 2.6, 1.5 mm.). 

 Seventh tergum longer than wide, hind margin not declivate, with 

 apical angles produced, with a median tubercle subequal to apical 

 angles (fig. 90). Eighth tergum twice as broad as long, hind margin 

 slightly produced medianly, corrugate, lateral margins raised, incon- 

 spicuous median ridge. Ninth tergum corrugate, apex distinctly 

 upcurved, apical margin deeply emarginate (fig. 139). Seventh 

 sternum shorter than sixth, inflated below near middle, hind margin 

 produced, projection rectangular, longer than wide at base (figs. 

 59, 61). 



