GHILIA^fELLA. 



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Genus GHILIANELLA. 



Ghilianella, Spin. Gen. dins. Artr. p. 142 (1852) ; Dohyn,Linn. Ent. 



xiv, p. 236 (1860): Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, p. 504 ; id. 



op. cit. 1870, p. 704 note ; id. Hem. Afr. iii, p. 162 (1865) ; Tin. 



Hem. ii,pp. 125 & 126 (1872) ; Champ. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhynch. 



ii, p. 163 (1898). 

 'Em.&sR., Burm. Handh.n,^.'2'lZ (1835); Dohrn (^&xt.), Linn. Ent. 



xiv, p. 236 (1860). 



Type, G.Jiliventris, Spin., a Xeotropical species. 



Distribution. Neotropical, Ethiopian, and Oriental Kegions. 



Anterior tarsi compressed, claw-like, the joints fused into one ; 

 completely apterous ; mesothorax anteriorly compressed and 

 narrowed ; anterior femora spinose from about the middle, the 

 first spine very long ; head and thorax graiuilate. 



According to Pascoe, the peculiarly linear form of the species of 

 this genus allows the young larvae to be carried about by the 

 mother, the slender abdomen of the larva being curled around the 

 thorax of the parent. 



1009. Ghilianella phasina, sp. u. 



Fig. 149. — Ghilianella pliasma. 



Length 17 millim. 



Hah. Burma ; Karennee {Coll. Dist.). 



Piceous -brown, opaque; 

 antennse, three longitu- 

 dinal fasciae to postocular 

 area of head, two of which 

 appear for a short distance 

 on apex of pronotum, and 

 the legs brownish-ochra- 

 ceous ; apex of first joint 

 of antennae piceous ; legs 

 much annulated with very 

 pale luteous, the annula- 

 tioas to the intermediate 

 nnd posterior tibice being 

 coafiued to the basal areas ; 

 head and thorax finely 

 granulate ; meso - and 

 metanotum and abdomen 

 above with a fine central 

 longitudinal sulcation ; 

 prothoras a little longer 

 than meso- or metathorax ; 

 first joint of antennae a 

 little shorter than abdomen. 



