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BLADINA FUSCOVENOSA Stal 
PLATE 14, Figures 397-399 
Bladina fuscovenosa STAL, Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., vol. 3, p. 824, 1859. 
Male: Length, 5.0 mm.; tegmen, 7.2 mm. 
Frons with lateral margins scarcely diverging to below level of 
antennae, median carina distinct, a row of pustules near lateral margin 
on each side. 
Yellowish brown; posttibiae lined fuscous; tegmina very pale, trans- 
parent, veins brown, transverse veinlets on corium pale, wings hyaline, 
shghtly clouded brown, veins brown; eyes sometimes barred with 
crescentic dark purplish bands. 
Anal segment narrow, strongly deflexed ventrally distad of anus, 
telson long. Aedeagus complex, periandrium with a vertical, thin, 
tapering process inedially on dorsal margin, with a short strutlike 
ridge transversely on each side at its base, a pair of long narrow 
flattened processes, directed vertically, arising ventrally at apex, each 
abruptly narrowed subapically into a slender point which is bent 
mesad ; penis with a pair of long simple slender spines at apex, directed 
vertically. Genital styles broad, dorsal margin straight, with a slight 
elevation before apex, ventral margin distinctly convex, apical margin 
obliquely truncate. 
Described from one male collected by Dr. J. G. Myers at San Fer- 
nando de Apure, Venezuela (Dec. 31, 1930). Specimen. deposited in 
B.M.N.H. ; 
BLADINA FUSCANA Stal 
PLATE 14, Figures 400-405 
Bladina fuscana STAL, Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 3, No. 6, p. 18, 1862. 
Male: Length, 5.4 mm.; tegmen, 7.8 mm. Female: Length, 5.4 
mm.; tegmen, 7.9 mm. 
Dark fuscous; tegmina somewhat darker along costal membrane, 
transverse veinlets dark, conspicuous, wings hyaline, bordered fuscous 
at hind margin, veins brown. 
Anal segment strongly deflexed posteriorly distad of anus, telson 
long. Aedeagus complex, periandrium broad, ventral border strongly 
convex, curved upward distally, a laterally compressed tapering 
process in middle of dorsal margin directed vertically, distad of this 
a smaller and narrower vertical process, also medial, on each side at 
apex of dorsal margin a thin vertical lobe, rounded at tip, shghtly 
curved anteriorly, a median spine ventrally at apex; penis tubular 
basally, bifid near apex, each lobe terminating in a long curved spine 
directed upward, lobes at base of these spines beset with numerous 
small teeth directed upward, the teeth of the upper inner margin of 
