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Stem keeled. Other structural characters as in generic description. Color 

 of anterior dorsum and face black or brown, mottled with yellow, with a 

 median and two lateral yellow stripes on apical two-thirds of crown; 

 forewings dull red, with veins usually paler, especially in basal third of 

 each wing. 



Holotype male, Maracay, Venezuela, and a long series of topotypes 

 (SSM); additional specimens from Venezuela (MMB, HNHM, and 

 and the Bronx Zoo); and from Ecuador (IZP). 



This species is closely related to T. fulvopunctata (Signoret), from which 

 it may be separated by its smaller size and especially by the aedeagal 

 processes which are branched apically in T. fulvopunctata, basally in T. 

 spinata. 



51. Genus MOLOMEA China 



Figures 228-243 



Oncometopia subg. Centrometopia Melichar, 1925a:399, preoccupied. Type- 

 species: {Tettigonia] persoruUa Signoret, by original designation. 

 Molomea China, I927d:283, as new name for Centrometopia Melichar. 

 Centrometopides Strand, 1928a: 73, as new name for Centrometopia Melichar. 



Length 11.0-16.3 mm. 



Head moderately produced, its median length varying from two-fifths 

 to three-fourths its interocular width, and from one-third to almost 

 one-half transocular width, anterior margin rounded in dorsal aspect, 

 without a carina at transition from crown to face, ocelli located on a line 

 between anterior eye angles, each equidistant from adjacent eye angle 

 and median line of crown (rarely closer to adjacent eye angle), without 

 an M -shaped elevation bordering posterior margin, without a longi- 

 tudinal carina laterad of each ocellus, with a transverse shallow 

 depression on crown, disc without pubescence, lateral clypeal sutures 

 extending onto crown and attaining ocelli; antennal ledges protuberant 

 in dorsal aspect, usually with a longitudinal depression, carinate or 

 not dorsally in lateral aspect, anterior margins steeply declivous; 

 clypeus strongly convex, muscle impressions distinct; transclypeal 

 suture obscure; face finely pubescent; clypellus not protuberant, its 

 contour continuing profile of clypeus. 



Thorax with pronotal width less than transocular width of head, 

 lateral margins parallel, disc usually rugose, with a pair of distinct 

 broad shallow depressions near lateral margins at midlength, usually 

 without pubescence, in lateral aspect with a complete dorsopleural 

 carina which is arched slightly downward; proepimeron with lower 

 marginal area not depressed, its width greater than length; posterior 

 portion of scutellum with or without transverse striations. Forewings 



