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This insect is apparently the most abundant species of the ^u,enus 

 in Panama. Its small size and heavily pictured pronotum readily 

 distinguish it from the other species here treated. 



Epilampra maya Rehn (Plate V, figure 7.) 



1902. Epilampra maya Rehn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, xxix. \). 3. [ c^ ; Machuca, 



Nicaragua.] 

 1914. Epilampra sodalis Caudell (not of Walker, 1868), Inscc. Inscit. .Menst., ii, 



p. 79. [9, juv. ; Porto Bello Ba\-, Panama.] 



Porto Bello Bay, Panama, (Jennings; in bromeliads), 3 9. 



Rio Trinidad, Pan., V, 9, 191 1, (Busck), i cT. 



Chorrera, Pan., IV, 13, 1912, (Busck), i c?. 



This broad, medium sized, rather light brown species appears, 

 from consideration of the series at hand, to be one of the most 

 abundant forms of the genus in Central America. 



Under sodalis of Walker, Kirby has placed conspersa of Saussure 

 and Zehntncr, which action has been followed, without comment, 

 by Shelford. We believe, from careful study of the literature and 

 material at hand, that Saussure and Zehntner correctly diagnosed 

 conspersa of Burmeister, which species belongs to the group ha\ing 

 beautifully marmorate and tessellate tegmina. 



From \\'alker's insufficient description of sodalis, we would note 

 the following differences for the present species; front not solidly 

 black, dorsal surface of abdomen lacking black patches and prono- 

 tum without exen an indistinct lyre-shaped marking. Were an 

 adequate description of sodalis gi\'en, we feel satisfied that more 

 decided features of difference could be stated. 



The present species has not been recorded from South America, 

 nor is it represented in the large series of unstudied material from 

 that continent at hand. 



Epilampra colombiana Saussure 



1895. EpilaDipra colombiana Saussure, Rev. Suisse Zool., iii, p. 360, i)l. ix, fig. 13.. 

 [9, "Xova Granada" ( = Colombia).] 



1896. Epilampra mexicana (iriffini (not of Saussure, 1862), Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. 

 comp. Uni%'. Torino, xi, no. 236, p. 2. [ 9 ; Lake Pita, Darien, [Panama].] 



1898. E[pilampra] colombiana Giglio-Tos, Boll. AIus. Zool. Anat. comp. Univ. 

 Torino, xi, no. 311, p. 7. (Correcting Griftini's record and comparing this species 

 with mexicana.) 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 4. 



