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also are marginal, thereby agreeing with the three "ornate" species 

 described by Womersley in 1952 : insigne, decora, and orimta. Imme- 

 diately separable from insigne and ornata in the shape, size, and dis- 



Figs. 100-107. — Gahrliepia (Gahrliepia) tessellata, new species. 



tribution of the scutal pits or scrobiculi. In the new species the 

 scrobiculi at their maxima are about six or seven times the diameter 

 of the setal bases, not 15 to 20 (cf. figs. 102, 174, and 184). Near 

 G. decora but distinguished as follows: With two distinct sizes of 

 scrobiculi — one along medial third of scutum and the second type on 

 each side of this. The group along midline consisting of trigonal. 



