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This species is quite closely related to Carsidara dugesii Low, described from 

 Mexico. There is a striking and constant difference, however, in the absence in 

 the Cuban species of the conspicuous stripes and bands of the Mexican form. 

 With the exception of minor differences in the cephalic characters the two species 

 are quite similar. 



Described from numerous males and females collected at Havana, Cuba, by C. 

 F. Baker. 



Carsidara gigantea n. sp. 

 (Figure 157. 1). F; l.-iS. A; 160, A) 



Length of body 2.8 mm.; length of forewing 3.8 mm.; greatest width l.l mm.; 

 width of vertex between eyes .47 mm.; with eyes .96 mm. General color light 

 yellowish green throughout; distal portions of antennal segments black. Body 

 very large. 



Head not deflexed, subglobose, finely punctate, with eyes not quite as broad as 

 thorax. Occipital margin arcuate, scarcely elevated narrowly ; discal area with a 

 deep sulcate impression between posterior and anterior ocelli, and a lesser 

 one extending outward on each side from anterior ocellus ; anterior ocellus 

 almost in center of vertex on median suture ; posterior ocelli well forward, almost 

 opposite anterior ocellus ; anterior margin very deeply emarginate at median suture, 

 strongly birostrate ; antennae inserted at apex of rostrate lobes ; basal segments 

 very large and long; flagellum very long, slender, filiform; third segment almost 

 twice as long as fourth. Facial cones wanting; antennal bases scarcely swollen. 

 Genae not prominent. Labrum very small, posterior, inconspicuous; rostrum very 

 long, slender, acute. Eyes large, prominent. 



Thorax large, long, broad, punctate, indistinctly striped. Pronotum long, flat 

 on dorsal surface ; propleurites very long and large ; pleural suture curved, visibly 

 as long as episternum ; forecoxa? large, mostly visible. Dorsulum very long and 

 broad. Scutum long. Post-tibial s])ur quite long and large. Wings large, hya- 

 line, shining, about two and three-fourths times as long as broad, broadest across 

 middle, quite acute at apex ; first marginal cell much smaller than second ; fourth 

 furcal almost as long as second cubital, curved strongly, terminating below apex 

 of wing; radius long; pterostigmal space open, large, long; cubital petiole not 

 quite as long as diseoidal subcosta ; basal subcosta shorter than cubital petiole. 



Female — Abdomen large, stout. Genital segment very stout, relatively short, 

 quite acute apically; dorsal plate large, abruptly acute at apex; ventral plate 

 more slender, equal in length to dorsal ]>late at apex but basally much shorter; 

 pubescence rather dense and long. 



Described from three females collected in Granada, Nicaragua, by C. F. Baker. 



Carsidara rostrata n. sp. 

 (Figure 157, C, E; 158, B; 160, C) 

 Length of body 2. t umi. ; length of forewing 3.3 mm.; greatest width I.I nun.; 

 width of vertex between eyes . K) nun.; witli cyts .7() nun. Gtiural color light 

 green. Body moderately large. 



Head not deflexed; profile subglobose; with eyes not quite as broad as thorax, 

 punctate. Occipital margin arcuate, scarcely elevated narrowly; discal areas of 



