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is not this species, according to Princis (personal communication) 
and its genitalia (Figs. 41-43) are distinctly different from those of 
mexicana (cf. Figs. 2-13). 
AbcLomennigrum Group 
[Epilampra abdomennigrum (De Geer) (Figs. 50-5 5 ) ; E. may a 
Rehn (Figs. 47-49) ; E. sagitta Hebard (Figs. 59-67) ; E. taira 
Hebard (Figs. 56-58) ; E. grisea (De Geer) (Figs. 68-96) ; E. 
jorgenseni (Rehn) (Figs. 97-113) ; E. berlandi Hebard (Figs. 114- 
1 1 7 ) ; E. guianae Hebard (Figs. 119-127)]. 
In this group L2d is a thick, black, variably shaped sclerite, which 
lies above the prepuce. The presence of a setal brush on Li dis- 
tinguishes it from the following Burmeisteri Group. The size of the 
setal brush is inter- and intraspecifically variable and sometimes the 
area covered by the setae is small, or the setae are lightly sclerotized 
(Figs. 58, 99) and difficult to see. The hook (R2) has a subapical 
incision in all the species listed in this Group. 
Epilampra maya (Figs. 47-49), until recently considered a synonym 
of E. abdomennigrum (Figs. 50-55), was shown to be a valid species 
by Roth and Gurney (1969). They illustrated the genitalia of a 
large number of individuals of both species to show the extent of 
variation which occurs in the phallomeres. Epilampra abdomenni- 
grum is found in South America, Trinidad, and the West Indian 
Islands of Grenada and St. Lucia, but whether it occurred in Puerto 
Rico was uncertain (Roth and Gurney, 1969). The Puerto Rican 
record reported here (Figs. 50-52) suggests that Rehn and Hebard 
(1927, p. 228) were probably correct in regarding Sein’s (1923) 
record of wheeleri in Puerto Rico as actually being abdomennigrum. 
Epilampra maya occurs in Central America and Mexico. The male 
taken in Boston Quarantine (Figs. 47-49) had Jamaica as the lo- 
cality but it is possible that the specimen boarded ship in a Central 
American port. 
Rehn (1902) stated that E. maya is closely related to E. conspersa 
and E. azteca and that it is separated from the latter by the shape 
of the supraanal plate. E. maya is very close to abdomennigrum 
with which it has been confused', and the genitalia of azteca (Figs. 
247-249) are decidedly different and I have placed it in the Bur- 
meisteri Group. 
Hebard ( 1929, p. 366) stated that E. sagitta is near (by markings) 
E. Columbiana and E. opaca. However, the shape of L2d and prepuce 
of sagitta (Figs. 59, 62, 65) appear to be closer to those of abdomen- 
nigmrn (Figs. 50, 53-55) than to Columbiana (Figs. 208-219) and 
