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Type-locality: Cloudcroft, New Mexico; 27 May 1902 (A. L. 

 Melander) . 



Holotype: Female (USNM) 67484. 



138. Brevitrichia minuta, new species 



Figure 132 



Male. — Head tan; eyes red-brown, with a metallic gleam above, 

 darker below; frons triangular, with a small separate triangular area 

 in front of median ocellus; ocellar tubercle red-brown, with a gray 

 poUinose covering; ocelli red-brown; antennae with first two seg- 

 ments orange, third segment brown. See figure. 



Figure 132. — Brevitrichia minuta, new species, male, female: a, wing; b, d, lateral aspects 

 of male and female heads; c, e, enlarged details of male and female antennae; /, dorsal 

 aspect of female head, frons collapsed; g, h, ventral and lateral aspect of male terminalia; 

 i, ventral left and dorsal right aspects of female 8th and 9th segments, bursal structure 

 outlined; ;', lateral aspect of female 8th and 9th segments. 



Thorax dorsum black, densely covered with grayish white crustlike 

 pollen, a white spot above the humeral callus; humeral and supra-alar 

 calli white to yellow. Scutellum with black-brown dorsal surface, 

 lateroposterior surface white or yellow, all granulose. Pleura with 

 prothorax cream to white, mesopleuron black-brown covered with 

 gray pollen; wings smoky, veins cream; halter stem brown, knob 



