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of the harpe. The clasper of melobaphes is nearly straight, stout, 

 and clothed for almost its entire length by short setae. 



Gonionota incontigua, new species 



Figure 5a; Plate 2 (Fig. 6) 



Alar expanse 26 mm. 



Labial palpus yellow; basal half of second segment white posteriorly; 

 anterior edge brown shading to reddish ocherous laterally, with some 

 blackish scaling on outer side and at apex; third segment edged 

 narrowly reddish ocherous anteriorly; rather dense black scaling sub- 

 apically and apex white. Antennal scape reddish ocherous mixed 

 with a few blackish scales dorsally, white ventrally; remainder of both 

 antennae missing. Proboscis white, slightly infuscated. Head yel- 

 low mixed with reddish ocherous. Thorax buff yellow mixed with 

 reddish ocherous and some pale fuscous scales; posterior tuft fuscous. 

 Forewing ground color brown strongly suffused with fuscous; basal 

 patch buff yellow mixed with reddish ocherous and with several 

 small groups of fuscous scales; costal edge of basal patch brown; 

 from costa, beyond basal patch and separated from it by a band of 

 ground color, an outwardly oblique buff yellow and reddish ocherous 

 blotch extends to end of cell, where it terminates in a white spot; 

 surface of blotch marked mth considerable fuscous scaling; in cell, 

 beyond edge of basal patch, a fuscous spot; dorsum strongly suffused 

 fuscous; at apical third of costa a narrow triangular white dash fol- 

 lowed on apical part of costa by white scaling; costal dash edged 

 inwardly reddish ocherous; subterminally, grayish scales form ill- 

 defined streaks and spots; cilia grayish fuscous, those near apex tipped 

 whitish. Hind wing ocherous shading to brownish apically; cilia pale 

 grayish ocherous, darker apically; apical cilia whitish tipped. Legs 

 silvery white ; forefemur brown outwardly; fore tibia and first tarsal seg- 

 ment reddish ocherous on outer side; midtibia lightly marked dull 

 ocherous on outer side; posterior tibia dull ocherous white. Abdomen 

 brownish dorsally, whitish ventrally. 



Female genitalia: Ostium crescentic opening into a broad, short, 

 sclerotized posterior section of ductus bursae; inception of ductus 

 seminalis dorsal, at anterior edge of sclerotized part of ductus bursae. 

 Signum an elongate, sclerotized dentate plate. 



Slide examined: 9, JFGC no. 10124. 



Type: Venezuela, Caracas (no date or collector), USNM 66375. 



Described from the unique female type. 



Superficially strikingly similar to melobaphes, determinata, and 

 bourguini, but the brilliance of coloring is subdued by abundant fuscous 



