DZ N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 

FIGURE 2. — Neiva rufipes Melichar (from specimens from Bafios, Ecuador; 
plate not shown in c). 
without a preapical lobe. Connective short or very short, triangular, with or 
without a median keel. Aedeagus symmetrical, not very short, with apex ex- 
panded in lateral view. Paraphyses paired and symmetrical. 
Female abdominal sternum VII with posterior margin rounded laterally, with 
median posterior portion depressed and with its posterior margin variable inter- 
specifically. Genital chamber with several sclerites in dorsal membrane. Ovi- 
positor with second valvulae each broad beyond basal curvature, with broad 
quadrate primary teeth on dorsal margin, each with minute secondaries, with a 
number of anteapical minute teeth on dorsal and apicoventral margins, apex 
narrowly rounded. Pygofer broad, without setae. 
The range of Neiva Melichar is Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Netva is related to 
Paracatua Melichar, Ortega Melichar, and Aguana Melichar, in all of which the 
species are robust in form, with posterior legs having femoral setal formula 2:0:0, 
tibial setal rows 1 and 2 both widely spaced, and with multiseriate setae on the 
plantar surface of the first tarsomere. Neiva is similar to Paracatua in having an 
