424 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol. iis 



the length of biical canal and does not extend beyond tips of pre- 

 antennary carinae; bucal canal expanded laterally in median portion; 

 gular plate with pointed, lateral sclerites at base; tergites very pale 

 and sternites invisible. Male unknown; (female: body, 1.74 X. 52; 

 head, .54 X. 477). 



Furnaricola cephalosa Carriker, 1944 



Furnaricola cephalosa Carriker, 1944, Bol. Ent. Venezolana, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 94, 

 pi. 6 (figs. 2, 3). 



Host: Glyphorhynchus spirurus pectoralis = G. s. sublestes Peters. 



Female unknown. 



Head very wide at temples, wider than abdomen, semitriangular in 

 shape. Sides of head much expanded laterally at clavi; bucal canal 

 very short; anterior plate wider than long, short, and not protruding. 

 Pleurites wider ventraly, dark brown; tergites very pale; sternites 

 prominent and dark brown; (male: body, 1.18X41; head, .39X.43). 

 For genitalia, see key. 



Furnaricola heterocephala Carriker, 1944 



Furnaricola heterocephala Carriker, 1944, Bol. Ent. Venezolana, vol. 3, no. 2, 

 p. 95, pi. 4 (figs. 4-6). 



Host: Gymnocichla c. chiroleuca = G. nudiceps chiroleuca Sclater and 

 Salvin. 



Female: body, 1.45X.50; head, .45X.40. 



Shape of head much as in anabacerthia, new species, but prothorax 

 narrower; segment I of abdomen narrower; pleurites parallel sided 

 (not swollen at heads as in anbacerthia) ; two long and two short 

 setae back of spines on VHI. 



Basal plate very short, with rounded distal end wider than at base; 

 paramera bifurcated as in parvigenitalis, but paramera thicker basally 

 and with tips more slender; endomera more or less as in myrmeciza, 

 new species. 



Tergites and sternites about equal in color, light brown; sternites 

 narrower than tergites, are separated by wide hyaline bands, and are 

 darker along posterior margin. 



Furnaricola guttata Carriker, 1963 



Furnaricola guttata Carriker, 1963, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 13, vol. 5, p. 466, 

 figs. 31-33. 



Host: Xiphorhynchus guttatus polystictus (Salvin and Godman) 

 (Carriker type no. 702); types in British Museum (Natural History). 



Superficially resembles certhia Carriker, but head narrower at both 

 frons and temples; prothorax parallel sided as in chunchotambo Car- 

 riker; the peculiar clear sternal sclerites of the thorax are unusual. 

 Male genitalia same type as that of certhia but smaller, especially 



