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units=l inm.): anterior femur 21, anterior tibia 25, anterior tarsus 

 1:2:4; middle femur 32, middle tibia 20, middle tarsus 2:13:10; 

 hindfemur 32, hindtibia 21, hindtarsus 2:11:10. 



Styliform processes of 8th abdominal segment prominent, their 

 apices spoon shaped and covered with long hairs; genital capsule 

 hemispherical, prominent. 



Figures 2, 3. — Anterior femur: 2, Hermatohates bredini, 



tiarae, new species. 



new species; 3, Hermatohates 



Total length, holotype male, 2.5 mm.; greatest width 1.2 mm. 



Female unknown. 



Type locality: Woodbridge Bay, Dominica, British West Indies, 

 collected at light. Holotype (USNM 66875) collected by W. L. 

 Schmitt, Mar. 25, 1956. 



Diagnosis: This species resembles H. hawaiiensis China in that 

 the forefemur and tibia are unarmed, but it differs in lacking a tooth 

 on the anterior trochanter, in having the prosternum with rounded 

 margin rather than a pair of prominences, and in having distinctive 

 spoon-shaped styhform processes. //. bredini differs from all other 

 species of the genus by the unarmed forefemur and tibia. 



Hermatohates tiarae, new species 



Figure 4 



A medium-sized, dark-brown species with antennal segments I and 

 II in proportion 19:23 (III and IV missing in unique male). Anterior 

 trochanter with a single spine; femur very strongly swollen, armed 

 with spines and teeth; tibia armed. Posterior margin of metasternum 

 faintly but distinctly bilobed, armed only with minute black teeth. 



Holotype male. Head viewed from above transverse, four times 

 wider across eyes than long in middle, triangular; antenniferous 



