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Descriptions of Species 
Pseudosinella duodecimpunctata Denis 
Figures 1-5 
Pseudosinella duodecimpunctata Dennis 1931, Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital. 
10:8 2. 
P. (Pseudosinella) duodecimoculata Bonet 1931, Mem. Soc. Esph. 
N.H. 74:3 24-6. 
Facies typical of genus Lepidocyrtus. Background color yellowish 
white, with scattered blue pigment, particularly heavy along the sides 
of the thorax and head. Head broadly oval in shape with a clear V- 
shaped dorsal area marked off by pigment ; six eyes per side on trape- 
zoidal eye patches. Antennae 1.2- 1.4 times as long as cephalic diagonal 
with third antennal segment in the form of a truncate cone clearly 
shorter than the second segment; apical organ of third segment with 
two irregular oval pegs in separate deep folds. Second thoracic 
slightly humped. Fourth abdominal segment about four times as long 
as third. Unguis with a clear external tooth and three inner teeth; 
basalmost of these usually salient and larger than remainder. Em- 
podial appendage lanceolate, with one or more minute external teeth. 
Tenent hair curved and clearly clavate. Mucro with apical tooth 
weakly upturned and longer than anteapical, basal spine attaining 
the apex of the anteapical tooth. Anterior macrochaetae as follows: 
on dorsum of head a group of four interantennal setae near the 
anterior margin and a curved row of seven setae along each antennal 
base, the anterior three being distinctly smaller; ventral surface with 
a few scattered setae near the anterior margin of the median and 
lateral areas. Second thoracic segment has a double row along the 
anterior margin. 
Type locality: Buco de Piombo, Italy. Distribution: widespread 
in southern Europe in caves and epigeic. In North America the 
species has been taken in Florida, Massachusetts, and North Carolina 
as an epigeic form. In caves of the United States it has been taken 
from New River Cave, Giles County, Virginia; Wind Cave, Jackson 
County, Kentucky; Old Spanish Cave, Stone County, Missouri; 
Panther Cave, Newton County Missouri; and Foster’s Cave, Mont- 
gomery County, Tennessee. 
D iscussion 
The most striking variations seen in this troglophile species are in 
the number of eyes and amount of pigment. Most specimens have 
the twelve eyes characteristic of the species; but forms with ten eyes 
