NEW MALLUl'liAGA. 17 



general color of licud, runuinji; entirely around frontal 

 margin of head, although paler and nearly "inter- 

 rupted" at the cdypeal suture; trabeculai nearly un- 

 colored. 



Prothorax short, oblong, with one hair in posterior 

 angles; segment almost wholly colored. Metathorax 

 short, the whole thorax being little more than one-half 

 the length of the head; obtusely angulated on abdomen; 

 posterior margin with a series of long hairs; segment 

 mostly colored, darkest in median region; a broad wliite 

 posterior border. Sternal markings consisting of in- 

 conspicuous intercoxal lines, and a small, indistinct 

 median blotch on metathorax. Legs pale, though 

 tinged with brown, with distinct, dark brown marginal 

 markings. 



Abdomen ovate; posterior angles of segments 1 and 

 2 without hairs, of segment 3 with a single hair, and 

 of succeeding segments with two hairs; dorsal surface 

 with numerous longish hairs; whitish with distinct lat- 

 eral transverse blotches, each, with a clear stigmatal 

 spot and some pustulations on segments 1-7; segment 

 8 witli a curving, continuous brown transverse blotch; 

 segment 9 rounded behind, with numerous longish 

 hairs; uncolored except where the chitinized genitalia 

 show through. Ventral surface all whitish except for a 

 well defined and characteristic brown genital blotch on 

 segments 7-9 (see fig. 6, pi. ii). 



Female. Body, length 2.37 mm., width .I'T mm.; 

 head, length .(52 mm., width .02 mm.; the increased size 

 of the female is due to the larger abdomen, the head 

 and thorax being of about the same size in both sexes; 

 lateral abdominal blotches are not so long as in the male; 

 segment 9 is shorter, bears two snuill blotches, and is 

 slightly emarginated behind. 



