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Male — Abdomen quite stout. Genital segment relatively rather small; claspers 

 short, slender, procurved; anal valve small, simple; auxiliary claspers small or 

 wanting. 



Described from one male collected by C. F. Raker at Para, Brazil. 



Rhinopsylla jalapensis n. sp. 

 (Figure 157, I, K; 158, D; 159, C; 160, B) 



I.iiigtli of body 2.6 mm.; length of forewing 3.7 mm.; greatest width 1.1 mm.; 

 width of vertex between eyes AO mm. ; with eyes .67 mm. General color greenish 

 brown. 



Head not deflexed, finely punctate, with eyes broader than thorax; profile sub- 

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

 a deep sulcate impression extending obliquely toward outer margin of antennae; 

 postocellar regions well forward, not elevated strongly; anterior margin deeply 

 excised and emarginate at median suture; anterior ocellus at apex of excision, 

 visible from above; antennae inserted on apex of rostrate lobes; basal segments 

 large ; flagellum very long and slender. Facial cones wanting ; antennal bases 

 swollen. Genae prominent. Labrum rather large, posterior ; rostrum very long, 

 slender, acute. Eyes large. 



Thorax arched, rather narrow, coarsely punctate. Pronotum short, depressed 

 somewhat below dorsulum ; propleurites long ; pleural suture oblique, not as long 

 visibly as episternum ; forecoxse quite large, mostly visible. Dorsulum long, quite 

 acutely angulated ceplialad, almost as long as scutum. Post-tibial spur somewhat 

 reduced, but distinctly present. Wings large, hyaline, acute at apex, about two and 

 three- fourths times as long as broad, broadest across first marginal cell; first mar- 

 ginal cell smaller than second; fourth furcal terminating at apex of wing; radius 

 moderately long; pterostignia wanting; cubital petiole wanting. 



Male — Abdomen rather slender. Genital segment large; claspers large, stout, 

 obtuse at apex; anal valve long, spatulate; pubescence moderate. 



Female — Genital segment almost as long as rest of abdomen, quite acute and 

 slender; dorsal plate very sliglitly longer than ventral; pubescence rather sparse. 



De.scribed from several males and females collected at Jalapa, Mexico, (D. L. 

 Crawford). 



Formerly Known Species of the Carsidarinae 



Carsidara dugesii Low 

 1886 — Neue Beitragc zur Kenntniss der Psylloden. V. Low, p. 160. 



Carsidara marginalis Walker 

 1876 — Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. of London, Vol. X, page 329, 

 1882 — Trans. Ent. Soe. London. XVIII, part III, page 467. 



Tyora congrua \\'alker 

 Ins. Saund Homopt. (Walker) page 111. 

 1882— Trans. Ent. Soc. of London, Vol. XVIII, jiart III, page 4.71, 



Macrohomotoma gladiatum Kuwayama 

 1907 — Trans. Sapporo Nat. Hist. Soc. Vol. 11, page 180. 



