17. Pentilia nadine Gordon and González, new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.7 mm, width 2.6 mm; dorsal surface shiny except head slightly alutaceous. Color dark brown; head yellow with brown clypeal apex; pronotum with lateral 1/3, anterior 1/3 yellow (Fig. 89); venter yellow except pro-, meso-, metasternun yellowish brown. Head punctures small, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures smaller than on head, separated by a less than to twice a diameter; elytral punctures small, extremely sparse, nearly absent; prosternum with small punctures separated by less than a diameter; pro-, meso-, metasternum nearly impunctate, with small, widely scattered punctures; abdominal ventrites 1, 2 with small punctures separated by about 1–5 times a diameter; ventrites 3–4 finely, densely punctured medially; ventrite 5 finely, densely punctured. Head with frons parallel sided, 1.2 times as wide as eye, clypeal apex widely emarginate, lateral angle abruptly curved (Fig. 90); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina not visible. Epipleuron strongly descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite curved, extended 3/4 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia with penis guide long, basal lobe as long as paramere, sides parallel in basal 3/4, curved to rounded apex in apical 1/4; paramere slender, curved, apex rounded (Fig. 91, 92); penis slender, apex attenuate, dorsal, ventral margins separated before apex, lower margin curved; basal capsule slender, inner arm curved, apically rounded, outer arm tapered from base to abruptly rounded apex (Fig. 93).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male; Trinidad: Port of Spain. viii.1905. F. Birch. B.M.1927-540. (BMNH) . Paratypes; 3, same data as for holotype. (BMNH) .

Remarks. Male genitalia must be examined to identify Pentilia nadine, but the nearly impunctate elytron and venter also will aid recognition.