1943] 
New Species of Bothriocera 
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Bothriocera phantasma sp. n. 
Male. Length, 2.9 mm.; tegmen, 3.5 mm. Female. Length, 3.0 
mm.; tegmen, 3.8 mm. Frons, clypeus, genae, vertex and pronotum 
white or pale yellow. Mesonotum piceous, pleura pale; coxae smoky, 
profemora smoky, pro-tibiae and tarsi, middle and hind legs very pale. 
Abdominal sternites and membrane pale, tergites and genitalia fus- 
cous. Tegmina transparent; a spot at apex of costal cell, a dark line 
from stigma to apex of clavus sharply interrupted in middle, cross- 
veins of apical region dark; two spots on R veins near apex of costal 
margin; a dark spot at base of Cu; clavus smoky posterior to veins. 
Wings transparent, smoky towards base of anal veins. Insect in life 
powdered greyish. 
Anal segment of male truncate apically, apical angles produced 
into large rounded lobes. Periandrium tubular, a broad hook-like 
process directed dorsally and anteriorly on left side near apex. 
Penis broadest in middle, forming loop of 270 degrees, minutely ser- 
rate at apex and at base near junction with apodeme. Genital style 
with inner margin concave at base, convex in middle, slightly concave 
at apex, posterior angle only just obtuse; apex truncate; inner angle 
slightly produced. Median process on pygofer between base of styles 
forming an isosceles triangle with angles truncate. 
Described from 15 males and 12 females collected by the 
writer at 1,000 ft. in mountain forest near the Imperial Road, 
Dominica, B. W. I. (June 15-29, 1940) on epiphytic aroids. 
Bothriocera riparia sp. n. 
Male. Length, 4.6 mm.; tegmen, 5.0 mm. Female. Length, 4.7 
mm.; tegmen, 5.1 mm. Head, thorax, legs, abdomen and genitalia 
(excluding ovipositor) white; abdominal tergites occasionally fuscous, 
abdomen sometimes tinged with pink; ovipositor fuscous. Tegmina 
transparent, slightly yellow; stigma black, a dark spot contiguous 
posteriorly; a dark spot at first fork of M; subapical cross-veins pale 
smoky; a dark trace at base of second apical cell of R; clavus pale. 
Wings transparent. Insect in life powdered grey. 
Anal segment of male bluntly rounded at apex; periandrium tubu- 
lar with an elongated vertical process, rounded at apex, on left 
side; penis wide apically, a large evenly-serrated lobe attached to 
middle, inner margin serrate, membrane minutely denticulate near 
apex. Inner border of genital styles with two indentations, obtusely 
