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Two New Tingitids 
Leptopharsa zeteki sp. nov. 
Small, narrow. Head black, the frontal spines short and 
black. Antennae moderately long, slender; segments I and 
II both short, black, the former about twice as long as the 
latter ; III a little more than twice as long as IV, testaceous ; 
IV slightly enlarged, embrowned towards the tip. Rostrum 
brown, black at apex, extending beyond middle of meso- 
sternum. Rostral channel wide, wider and chordate on 
metasternum. Legs slender, testaceous, the tarsi brownish. 
Body beneath black. 
Pronotum convex, finely pitted, black, testaceous behind ; 
carinse foliaceous, uniseriate, testaceous, some of the vein- 
lets dark, the areolae small; lateral carinae slightly concave 
within in front, not so widely separated and subparallel be- 
hind. Paranota rather narrow, biseriate, testaceous, slight- 
ly wider in front, moderately reflexed. Hood small, testa- 
ceous, faintly produced forward in front. Elytra moderate- 
ly constricted beyond the middle, strongly overlapping and 
jointly rounded behind; costal area moderately wide, tes- 
taceous, biseriate, the inner row of areolae along the basal 
half of costal area smaller, the areolae hyaline; subcostal 
area broad, triseriate, the veinlets opposite discoidal area 
black ; sutural area elongate, impressed, the nervelets some- 
what embrowned, three areolae deep in widest part; sutural 
area becoming dark fuscous posteriorly, with three large, 
hyaline areolae near the apex. 
Length, 2.00 mm. ; width, .80 mm. 
Holotype (male), allotype (female) and one paratype, 
Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, Panama, Feb. 1939. 
Three paratypes, near Colon, Canal Zone. 
The short basal segment of antennse and color separate 
this insect from other small species of the genus. This 
species (also G. paula n. sp.) was collected near the Barro 
Colorado Island Biological Laboratory, Gatun Lake, Insti- 
tute for Research in Tropical America, Panama Canal, and 
is named in honor of the Director, Mr. James Zetek, who has 
taken a very active interest in the insect fauna of tropical 
America. 
