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ventral margin and apically, or only anteapically. Plates separate 

 tlaroughout their length, not extending farther posteriorly than pygofer 

 apex, triangular, with numerous dispersed microsetae. Style extending 

 much farther posteriorly than apex of connective, with a distinct 

 preapical lobe, truncate or obliquely subtruncate at apex, with a few 

 serially-arranged microsetae behind preapical lobe. Connective short, 

 Y-shaped, arms not widely divergent, stem broadened apically, not 

 keeled medially. Aedeagus symmetrical with a conspicuous dorsal 

 process or pair of processes. Paraphyses elongate, slender. 



Female abdominal sternum VII with a median, or a median and 

 two lateral slightly produced rounded lobes on posterior margin. 



Specimens belonging to this genus have been examined from Nic- 

 aragua, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Paracrocampsa appears 

 to be related to Acrocampsa in the form of the genital capsule, the styles, 

 and the connective. It differs in the form of the aedeagus, the shorter 

 head, which is not curved dorsally at its apex nearly as much as in 

 Acrocampsa, and in the incomplete vein R2+3 of the hindwing, which is 

 complete in Acrocampsa. 



P. nativa (Melichar) is included here only provisionally, for it differs 

 in a number of respects from the other included species. 



A male specimen in ZIMH is here designated lectotype of Amblydisca 

 discreta Melichar. It bears labels "Ecuador/Guayaquil/F. Ohs. 11.05" 

 and "Dr. F. Ohaus/vend. 20. VII. 1911" and "Amblydisca/discreta M./ 

 L. Melichar det. 1922" and a hand-written identification label. 

 A similarly labeled specimen is in MMB. The male genitalia of this 

 specimen are like those of figure 122, except that the dorsal process of 

 the aedeagus does not have the irregularity on its ventral margin as 

 does the specimen illustrated. Another specimen from Ecuador has 

 shorter paraphyses, indicating that this character, also, is variable. 



The genitalia of the male lectotype of P. laboulbeni (Signoret) are like 

 those of figure 123. P. luridescens (Walker) is placed in synonymy on the 

 basis of dissections of males which agree with the female holotype. The 

 lectotype of P. nativa (Melichar) was parasitized, but the male genitalia 

 are apparently normal. 



SPECIES OF PARACROCAMPSA 



amida (Distant), 1908b: 70 {Amblydisca) . Ecuador. New combination. 

 aulaeata (Fowler), 1898a:2I2 (Amblydisca). Nicaragua. New combination. 

 discreta (Melichar), 1926a:296 (Amblydisca). Ecuador. New combination. 

 laboulbeni (Signoret), 1855a: 52 (Tettigonia). Colombia, Venezuela. New 

 combination. 

 luridescens (Walker), 1858b:240 (Aulacizes). New synonymy. 

 nativa (Melichar), 1926a:294 (Amblydisca). Ecuador. New combination. 



