Anaplecta domestica Saussure & Zehntner 1893

Anaplecta sordida new species (Plate II, figure 6.)
The present insect agrees closely with A. asema in wing venation, but differs in the very dark general coloration, head with less prominent borders of the ocellar areas, less acuminate tegmina and proportionately less ample appendicular field of the wings. The male sex of this species being unknown, we are less able to state definitely its position in the genus.
Of the other very dark species without pale tegminal margins, we find from the description that, besides differing in other features, A. otomia Saussure, is distinctive in the decidedly rcflexed lateral margins of the pronotum and tegmina, while A. dohrniana Saussure and Zehntner belongs to a different group, in which the wings have the medio-discoidal area showing no longitudinal distal vein.
" We find that for several of Saussure's species of the genus, determined with full satisfaction in other respects, our material is distinctly smaller than the measurements given by that author. This is true of our series of the Mexican azteca, the typical series of which we do not believe will be found to show as much size difference from the present insect as Saussure's original description (Miss. Sci. Mex., Rech. Zool., vi, p. 17, (1870)) would indicate. Type.^ 9 ; Porto Bello, Panama. August 18 to 21, 1916. (D. E. Harrower.) [Hebard Collection, Type no. 428.]
Size small, form somewhat broader than in asema. Head appreciably longer than broad, these proportions not as contrasting as in asema, interocellar area forming, with margins of ocellar areas, a distinct ridge above each antennal socket, this ridge not projecting as much as in asema; ocellar spots distinct. Pronotum trapezoid-oval, narrowing distinctly more cephalad than caudad; surface weakly convex, showing shallow but distinct latero-caudal transverse sulci of disk. Tegmina narrow, costal margin weakly convex to the narrowly rounded apex; costal veins numerous (twelve) and faintly enlarged distad; discoidal sectors few (four). Wings proportionately not as broad as in asema, much as in yl. azteca, venation much as in those species; costal veins (nine) heavily clubbed distad; medio-discoidal area as described for asema; appendicular field in length about half that of remaining portion of wing, length slightly greater than width. Supra-anal and subgenital plates and armament of limbs as typical for genus, described under asema.