Myndus bifurcatus, new species

1. Myndus bifurcatus, new species (fig. 1, a-d).

Crown broad and rather short, conspicuously narrowed anteriorly with a transverse carina at the anterior margin of the eyes and a second transverse carina at the anterior margin of the crown. Face broad, the lateral margins strongly elevated; the median carina strongly elevated dorsad, rather faintly elevated on the ventral half.

1 Numbers in parentheses refer to Bibliography, page 147.

Male pygofer short and broad with a median elongate triangular tooth on the posterior border; genital styles elongate, bifurcate at the apex; aedeagus complex with two elongate apical spines which are strongly depressed; anal segment short, broadly reflexed ventrad; anal style elongate, conical.

General color quite variable, usually tawny olive, sometimes face and mesonotum blackish brown; legs and venter sometimes cinnamon-buff; compound eyes blackish; abdomen usually cinnamon, sometimes blackish; tegmina yellowish translucent with the apical fourth infuscated.

Length: to apex of abdomen, 2.4 mm.; to apex of tegmina, 3.6 mm.

Holotype male, Machanao, June 4, from Pandanus, Swezey; allotype female, Mt. Alifan, May 21, from Macaranga, Usinger; paratypes: Mt. Alifan, three males; Orote Peninsula, one male; Mt. Alifan, six females; Ritidian Point, one female.

This species has the tegmina infuscate on the apical fourth, and the genital styles of the male bifurcate apically.