MORGAN HEBARD 89 



San Carlos, Costa Rica 

 Bugaba, Panama, /o/jo/v/je 



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San Carlos, Costa Rica. 

 Turrialba, Costa Rica. . 



The pronotal coloration, dark and immaculate except for two 

 large pyriform yellowish-buff markings at the cephalic margin on 

 each side, readily distinguishes this handsome species. The teg- 

 mina have a large patch of similar coloration proximad on the 

 marginal field. 

 Paratropes pinoganae new species (Plate V, figure 5.) 



This insect is very closely related to P. phalerata (Erichson), 

 but differs in the following features. Pronotum with dark marking 

 having the meso-cephalic invasion of the pale cephalic marginal 

 band with apex broad and truncate, showing no small median 

 triangular production; tegmina and wings shorter ;ii^ tegmina 

 with dark margin of proximal two-thirds of costal margin wider 

 and dark band at humeral trunk twice as wide as oblique band of 

 sinistral tegmen, not of nearly equal width; dark marginal band of 

 radiate field of wings much narrower; cerci pale, not black. 



It is probable that series will show \-ariation in some of the 

 above features, but that the present insect will prove a valid species 

 with even more distinctive features in the male sex, when this is 

 known, is our belief. 



Type. — 9; Pinogana, Darien, Panama. December, 1915. 

 (Munoz.) [Hebard Collection, Type no. 491.] 



Size medium, form broad as in the majority of the species of the genus."^ Head 

 with interocular space (.4 millimeter) about two-fifths that between the minute but 



1'^ Much as in females of P. bilunata Saussure and Zehnlner; a female of phalerata 

 from Trinidad has instead the tegmina and wings as elongate as in males of 



hilunata. 



"5 We have given the following full structural description of the species, realizing that 

 the majority of the features remarked are rather of generic than of specific diagnostic 

 value. In this genus, color characters have been used almost exclusively for specific 

 diagnoses, particularly in the female sex, and in certain features are undoubtedly among 

 the most important for specific differentiation. 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 4. 



