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Genus G-ETULIA. 



Gaetulia, Stal, Stett.ent. Zeit. 18G4, p. 54; MeUch. Ann. Hofmvs. 

 Wien, xiii, p. 327 (1898). 



Type, G. plenipennis, Wfilk., from Central Amei'ica, 

 Distrihution. Neotropical and Oriental Eegions. 

 Head (including eyes) considerably narrower than pronotum, 

 a little prominent before eyes, base of vertex profoundly sinuate ; 

 face much longer than broad ; clypeus medially and laterally finely 

 carinate (>Stfd, however, states that the lateral margins are not 

 carinate) ; pronotum short, strongly eonvexly produced between 

 eyes, centrally ridged ; mesonotum large, tricarinate, the cari- 

 nations subparallel ; tegmina moderately ampliated, two longi- 

 tudinal veins emitted from upper end of basal cell and widely 

 separated, costal membrane with the transverse veins well separated, 

 only a little oblique, three longitudinal cells on basal area, after 

 wJiich the surface is more or less broadly reticulated by numerous 

 transverse veins, which also form a continuous subapical marginal 

 line. 



inS4. Gaetulia nigrovenosa, Melich. Ann. Ilofnms. Wicn, xiii, p. o28, 

 t. xiii, f. 18 (1898). 



Body and legs ochraceotts ; face with two sublateral longittulinal 

 black lines (sometimes, as in the specimen here figtired, entirely 

 absent) ; a small anterior lateral black spot on each side of meso- 

 sternum ; vertex of head with two central piceous lines (in some 

 specimens obsolete) ; pronotum and mesonotum palely testaceous, 



Fig. 203. — Gatul'm nigrovcnma. 



the first with the margins and a central carinate fascia pale ochra- 

 ceous, the latter with three longitudinal fascise and its lateral 

 margins pale ochraceous, the central fascia more or less margined 

 with piceous ; abdomen above with transverse discal and lateral 

 fasciate black spots, the largest of which is discal and subapical ; 

 abdomen beneath with transverse piceous fascise ; tegmina and 

 wings hyaline, tlie venation fuscous, the first with a sitbtriangular 



