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MOEDELLA HAITIENSIS, new species 



Figure 16, o 



In addition to its difference in color pattern this species may be 

 separated from its closest ally, dimidiata Champion (1891, p. 234), 

 by the greater length of the fourth antennal segment, the emarginate 

 apex of the distal segment of the maxillary palpi, and the very long 

 last ventral abdominal segment. 



Length : 2.75 mm. ; including anal style, 4 mm. Moderately robust, 

 sides attenuate, narrowing posteriorly, broadest at middle of pro- 

 notum. Head piceous, antennae and mouth parts flavous; prothorax 

 flavobrunneous ; elytra piceous, with a diagonal, quadrangular, flavous 

 spot on disk near base, separated from lateral margin by less than 

 one-half its width ; ventral surface black ; anterior legs flavous, inter- 

 mediate pair fuscobrunneous. Surface densely covered with fine, re- 

 cumbent pubescence, yellowish white, except on elytra, where it forms 

 golden areas, as follows: covering subbasal flavous spot and entire 

 apical half, whence it extends in a broad line along suture to base. 



Antennae 0.37 mm. long, reaching base of pronotum, segment 4 dis- 

 tinctly longer than 3; 5-10 serf ate, each one-half longer than 4 and 

 much broader at apex, slightly decreasing in length distally; 11 dis- 

 tinctly longer 10, broadest at apical third, sides and apex broadly 

 rounded. Distal segment of maxillary palpi enlarged, form of a sca- 

 lene triangle, outer side longest, apical angle emarginate (fig. 16, a). 

 Pronotum distinctly broader than long (1 by 0.78 mm.), apex and 

 sides rounded, basal angles obtuse, base arcuate, midbasal lobe very 

 short, truncate. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra twice as long as 

 broad (2 by 1 mm.), sides visibly attenuate on their apical two-thirds, 

 broadly curved subapically, apices individually rounded. Interme- 

 diate tarsi distinctly longer than their tibiae ; penultimate segment of 

 anterior and intermediate tarsi simple. Tarsal claws with three dis- 

 tinct teeth. Outer spur of posterior tibiae twice as long as inner 

 one. Anal style one-half longer than apical ventral segment (1.2 by 

 0.82 mm.), narrow, attenuate to apex; last ventral segment seven times 

 as long as penultimate one. 



Type locality. — Mariani, Haiti. 



ry/je.— Male, U.S.N.M. No. 52929, a unique individual taken on 

 September 17, 1918, by W. A. Hoffman. 



MORDELLA VIDUA Solier 



MordcVa vidua Solier, in Gay, Historia fisica y politica de Chile, vol. 5, p. 270, 

 1851. 



Three specimens : Two from Angol, Chile, January 14, 1928 (D. S. 

 Bullock) ; one from Chile (E. C. Reed). 



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