1036 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
Cuitlana verticalis, NEW SPECIES 
Figure 841 
Length 7.2-7.9 mm. Crown with median length varying from seven-tenths 
to more than eight-tenths interocular width and usually from slightly less than 
one-half to almost six-tenths transocular width, ocelli located on a line be- 
tween anterior eye angles, surface finely punctate or not between ocelli; face 
with or without a slender lenticular sclerite bordering lateral clypeal suture on 
each side below eye; antennal ledges with or without a weak carina; transcly- 
peal suture obscure medially, clypellus with profile of its lower portion more 
nearly horizontal than contour of remainder of face. Pronotum with width 
greater than transocular width of head; forewing with veins not very distinct. 
Male pygofer with a short undifferentially sclerotized apical process; aedeagus 
with ventral margin variably produced near base of shaft, somewhat capitate 
apically; paraphyses with ramus at least slightly biundulate apically. Female 
with valvulae II of ovipositor bearing primary teeth of almost uniform size 
throughout length of toothed portion. 
Crown, pronotum, and scutellum dull yellow, with a complete median line 
and lateral line on each side at transition to face, but failing to reach apex of 
head, a pair of longitudinal pronotal lines, slightly convergent anteriorly but 
not attaining anterior pronotal margin, a pair of spots on basal scutellar 
margin opposite posterior ends of pronotal lines, narrow and black, forewing 
pink, narrowly bordered with black except along appendix and basal portion 
of humeral margin; proepimeron with a black stripe bordering dorsopleural 
carina beneath; face, remainder of pleura, venter, and legs, yellow. 
Holotype male and two females, Jiutepec, Morelos, September 6, 1939 
(DeLong and Plummer); one male, Acapulco, Guerrero, October 24, 1941 
(DeLong, Good, Plummer, and Caldwell); one female, Iguala, Guerrero, Sep- 
tember 11, 1939 (D. M. DeLong); one male, Iguala, Guerrero, October 25, 
1941 (DeLong, Good, Caldwell, and Plummer); one male, Taxco, Guerrero, 
October 26, 1941 (same collectors); one male and two females, Mexcala, 
Guerrero, October 2, 1945 (Balock, DeLong, and Hershberger); one male, 
‘“Xaltianguis”’, Guerrero, October 23, 1941 (DeLong, Good, Caldwell and 
Plummer); two males, Cuernavaca, Morelos, November 20, 1933; two 
females, Huetamo, Michoacan, August 22, 1933, all from Mexico (DeLong 
collection, OSU). Three females, Jesis Maria, Nayarit, Mexico, June 26 (2) 
and July 27, 1955 (B. Malkin); one female, El Pichén, Nayarit, Mexico, June 
25, 1963 (J. Doyen) (UCAL). One female, Tejupilco, Temescaltepec, Mexico, 
June 17, 1933 (R. L. Usinger) (CAS). One male and one female, Cuernavaca, 
Morelos, Mexico, 34 mi. S., 2800 feet, August 4, 1954 (J. G. Chillcott); one 
female, ‘‘Taxcoco”’”, Mexico, 7000 feet, August 12, 1954 (J. G. Chillcott) 
(CNC). 
C. verticalis, n. sp., differs from C. venusta (Stal) in the characters used in the 
key, above, in that the paraphysis of the male is somewhat biundulate 
apically, and in that the primary teeth of valvula II are almost uniform 
throughout length of the toothed portion. 
