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

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

 wanting. 



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



Rhinopsylla jalapensis n. sp. 

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



Length of body 2.6 mm.; lengtli of forewing 3.7 mm.; greatest width l.i mm.; 

 width of vertex between e3'es .40 mm. ; with eyes .67 mm. General color greenish 

 brown. 



Head not deflexed, finel_y punctate, with eyes broader tli.in tliorax ; profile sub- 

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

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

 postocellar regions well forward, not elevated strongl}' ; anterior margin deeply 

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

 visible from above; anteniiEe 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 ; forecoxae quite large, mostly visible. Dorsulum long, quite 

 acutely angulated cephalad, 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 tlian second ; fourth f ureal terminating at apex of wing ; radius 

 moderately long; pterostigma 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 slightly longer than ventral; pubescence rather sparse. 



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

 Crawford). 



Formerly Known Species of the Carsidarinae 



Carsidara dugesii Low 

 1886 — Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Psylloden. F. Low, p. 160. 



Carsidara marginalis Walker 

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

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



Tyora congrua Walker 

 Ins. Saund Homopt. (Walker) page 111. 

 1882— Trans. Ent. Soc. of London, Vol. XVIII, part III, page 471. 



Macrohomotoma gladiatum Kuwayama 

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



