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the exception of B. cyanea , a species which also stands apart by 
reason of its tegminal markings. For the rest it appears that 
the various genital and chroic characters are combined at 
random. 
The holotype males and allotype females of all the species 
described have been deposited in the U. S. National Museum, 
while paratype series of both sexes have been sent to the British 
Museum (Natural History), the American Museum of Natural 
History, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 
Mass., U. S. A. 
Bothriocera Burmeister 
1835 Burmeister, Handbuch der Entomologie, p. 156. Haplotype 
B. tinealis Burm. 
Bothriocera cyanea sp. n. 
Male. Length, 3.5 mm.; tegmen, 3.9 mm. Female. Length, 3.8 
mm.; tegmen, 4.2 mm. Frons and clypeus piceous, lateral margins 
pale, almost white; genae piceous, antennal pit white; vertex piceous. 
Pronotum piceous, but almost white laterad on posterior half. Meso- 
notum dark, thorax fuscous ventrally. Fore legs piceous, middle and 
hind legs pale testaceous. Abdomen and genitalia brown. Tegmina 
pale yellow basally, smoky brown beyond a line from stigma to apex 
of clavus, clavus dark; stigma dark, often traversed by two parallel 
crimson lines. Wings smoky, pale at base. Insect in life densely 
powdered purplish blue and sulphur yellow. 
Anal segment of male truncate at apex, lateral angles pointed. 
Periandrium tubular, penis forming a complete loop round perian- 
drium, outer border minutely serrate distally. Genital styles with 
apex broadly rounded, a thin lobe lateroventrally at right angles. A 
small knob at outer angle. Inner border of style concave at base, 
convex distally. Median ventral process of pygofer semicircular with 
a minute point at apex. 
Described from 17 males and 14 females collected by the 
writer at 800 ft. in mountain forest near the Imperial Road, 
Dominica, B. W. I. (June 11-30, 1939; June 15-29, 1940) 
resting on Palicourea crocea and Inga laurina . This species is 
distinguished by the male genitalia and by the dark tegmina 
with a pale basal spot. 
