﻿NEW 
  LANTERNFLIES 
  FROM 
  SOUTH 
  AMERICA 
  — 
  FENNAH 
  101 
  

  

  Aedea^^is 
  tubular, 
  a 
  stout 
  spine 
  in 
  middle 
  line 
  ventrally 
  curved 
  pos- 
  

   teriorly, 
  a 
  deep 
  median 
  keellike 
  lobe 
  ventrally 
  in 
  distal 
  half, 
  a 
  long 
  

   bladelike 
  process 
  arising 
  at 
  base 
  of 
  flagellum 
  on 
  right 
  directed 
  ventrally 
  

   and 
  forwanl, 
  two 
  unequal 
  spines 
  at 
  base 
  of 
  flagellum 
  on 
  distal 
  side 
  

   directed 
  dorsally, 
  flagellum 
  with 
  two 
  scroll-like 
  folds. 
  Genital 
  styles 
  

   weakly 
  angulate 
  at 
  middle, 
  much 
  dilated 
  distally, 
  outer 
  margins 
  

   strongly 
  convex, 
  inner 
  margin 
  straight 
  or 
  nearly 
  so. 
  

  

  Typc—V.S.l^M. 
  No. 
  57098. 
  

  

  Described 
  from 
  one 
  male 
  taken 
  at 
  Banos, 
  Ecuador, 
  by 
  S. 
  W. 
  Frost 
  

   (February 
  20, 
  1937). 
  This 
  species 
  is 
  distinguished 
  by 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  

   anal 
  segment 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  genitalia 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  pattern 
  on 
  the 
  tegmina. 
  

  

  Family 
  DERBIDAE 
  

  

  Tribe 
  OTIOCERINI 
  

   IQUITOSA, 
  new 
  genus 
  

  

  Vertex 
  longer 
  than 
  wide 
  across 
  base 
  (3 
  :1) 
  , 
  disk 
  deeply 
  sunken, 
  lateral 
  

   margins 
  thickened 
  and 
  pustulate 
  distally, 
  approximated 
  at 
  apex, 
  pos- 
  

   terior 
  margin 
  concave; 
  frons 
  linear, 
  clypeus 
  medially 
  carinate; 
  head 
  

   compressed, 
  in 
  profile 
  produced 
  obliquely 
  upward 
  and 
  anteriorly 
  in 
  an 
  

   acute 
  angle, 
  almost 
  pointed 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  antennae 
  subequal 
  to 
  length 
  of 
  head, 
  

   first 
  joint 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  second 
  joint 
  flattened, 
  with 
  sides 
  

   straight, 
  expanding 
  distally, 
  apical 
  margin 
  asj'mmetrically 
  excavate, 
  a 
  

   single 
  short 
  vermiform 
  appendage 
  attached 
  at 
  base. 
  Pronotum 
  very 
  

   short, 
  anterior 
  margin 
  angularly 
  convex, 
  posterior 
  margin 
  still 
  more 
  

   acutely 
  concave, 
  lateral 
  fields 
  broad, 
  quadrate, 
  median 
  carina 
  present, 
  

   and 
  a 
  carina 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  between 
  eye 
  and 
  tegula 
  ; 
  me«onotum 
  convex, 
  

   depressed 
  in 
  posterior 
  third, 
  median 
  carina 
  feeble, 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  obso- 
  

   lete 
  except 
  for 
  two 
  flangelike 
  vertical 
  eminences 
  in 
  middle; 
  tegulae 
  rel- 
  

   atively 
  large. 
  Tegmina 
  with 
  sides 
  expanding 
  distally, 
  apical 
  margin 
  

   oblique, 
  costal 
  margin 
  sinuat<^, 
  with 
  a 
  prominent 
  recurved 
  rounded 
  

   eminence 
  near 
  base, 
  vein 
  M 
  leaving 
  Sc 
  + 
  R 
  one-seventh 
  from 
  base, 
  

   Sc 
  + 
  R 
  forking 
  two-sevenths 
  from 
  base, 
  M 
  with 
  five 
  branches 
  reach- 
  

   ing 
  apical 
  line 
  of 
  transverse 
  veins, 
  clavus 
  narrowly 
  open, 
  but 
  common 
  

   claval 
  vein 
  not 
  passing 
  beyond 
  its 
  apex. 
  Wings 
  four-fifths 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   tegmina. 
  

  

  Genotype, 
  Iquttoaa 
  shannoiu^ 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  IQL'ITGSA 
  SHANNONI. 
  new 
  Hprrin 
  

  

  PI.ATC 
  2. 
  FI0URE8 
  23-26; 
  Platk 
  :{. 
  Fkjukes 
  31M1 
  

  

  MaJe. 
  — 
  Length, 
  3.2 
  nnn. 
  ; 
  togmen, 
  5.0 
  mm. 
  

  

  Head, 
  pronotum 
  except 
  margins, 
  mesonotum 
  except 
  carina, 
  a 
  patch 
  

   on 
  each 
  lateral 
  field, 
  and 
  posterior 
  margin 
  brown; 
  median 
  carina 
  of 
  

   mesonotum 
  and 
  margins 
  of 
  pron(*tum 
  and 
  mesonotum, 
  sternite^s, 
  and 
  

  

  