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described (loc. cit.) Fowler's species as Oncometopia Jowleri, placing a 

 type label on a specimen from Fowler's original series. The description 

 is valid. The type chosen by Distant, however, was not the same species 

 which Fowler illustrated. Tliis second of the two species which Fowler 

 misdetermined as 0. speculifera (Walker), and the one he illustrated, 

 was left without a name and is described above as E. injlata, new species. 



Egidemia paranceps, new species 

 Figure 165 



Length of male 12.0 mm. Head with median length two-thirds 

 interocular width, approximately one-third transocular width, with- 

 out an M -shaped elevation bordering posterior margin, clypeus almost 

 flattened in lateral aspect, transclypeal suture incomplete; pronotum 

 with disc rugose and punctate; forewing translucent, widiout a scle- 

 rotized costal area in region of anteapical cells; hindlegs with femoral 

 setal formula 2:1:1; first tarsomere with length about equal to com- 

 bined length of second and third. Pygofer moderately produced, disc 

 with numerous microsetae, with a few interspersed macrosetae near 

 apex, processes arising posterodorsally and extending mesally across 

 median line, each narrow and tapering; plates extending ahnost as 

 far posteriorly as apex of pygofer, without macrosetae ; style extending 

 much farther posteriorly than apex of connective, slightly narrowed 

 anteapically, expanded and subtruncate at apex; connective Y-shaped, 

 with a distinct median keel; aedeagus narrowest in apical half in lateral 

 aspect, with a pair of short spinelike processes near middle of poster- 

 o ventral margin, these joined across caudo ventral margin of shaft 

 which appears constricted at their origin in caudoventral view. Color 

 of anterior dorsum brown, crown with a pair of spots at base, an 

 elongate median spot near apex, a spot bordering inner margin of 

 each eye, antennal ledges, five spots bordering anterior pronotal 

 margin, a row of five spots across middle of disc, three spots across 

 base of scutellum, a pair of spots behind transverse sulcus, and extreme 

 apex of scutellum, orange; an orange spot in base of inner anteapical 

 cell of forewing; face sordid brown, the clypellar apex and a large spot 

 on genae below each eye, paler brown. 



Holotype male, "Estrada, 59-453" (USNM). Additional specimens 

 have been studied from Bat Cave, Panama, and from Costa Rica. 



E. paranceps, new species, resembles E. anceps (Fowler) in form, and 

 E. inflata, new species, in naarkings. It can be distinguished from E. 

 anceps by the form of the aedeagus, with its short processes, and by its 

 enlarged, truncate style apices. DifTercnces between this species and E. 

 injlata have been discussed in the description of the latter (p. 182). 



