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Drake — Genus Parada 
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absona has a distinctly smaller hood, and wider foliaceous 
part of lateral carina. 
Parada hackeri, new sp. 
Moderately elongate, small, oblong. Head flat above, 
reddish brown with five testaceous spines; median spine 
short, appressed; anterior pair longer, porrect, with their 
tips touching; hind pair very long, appressed. Antennae 
moderately long, moderately stout, indistinctly pilose, tes- 
taceous with terminal segment dark fuscous; segment I 
short, a little stouter and not quite twice as long as II ; in 
slightly more than twice as long as iv; iv thicker in widest 
part, narrowed at base and apex, clothed with short hairs. 
Bucculae wide, testaceous, areolate, closed in front. Rostrum 
testaceous, extending a little beyond middle of mesoster- 
num; rostral laminae testaceous, areolate, open behind. 
Entire body beneath dark reddish brown. 
Pronotum slightly convex, closely deeply pitted, reddish 
brown with carinae, paranota, hood and posterior projec- 
tion of pronotum testaceous; hood moderately large, only 
slightly raised, about one cell high, flat above, not produced 
anteriorly. Paranota moderately wide, mostly triseriate, 
almost totally reflexed inwardly, not quite resting on dorsal 
surface of pronotum at humeral angles. Lateral carinae 
long, foliaceous on convex part of pronotum, there reflexed 
inwardly and triseriate, continuing on hind part of prono- 
tum as a raised vein, which terminates a little before the 
apex. Median carina profound, not areolate. Hind process 
of pronotum about as widely areolate as discoidal area. 
Hemelytra slightly constricted a little beyond middle, 
brownish; costal area narrow, uniseriate, the cells small 
and mostly longer than wide, testaceous with some scattered 
dark fuscous spots on outer vein; discoidal area wider, 
biseriate, with larger cells ; discoidal area large, extending 
considerably beyond middle of hemelytra, set off from other 
areas by raised veins (especially inner boundary), nar- 
rowed at both base and apex, slightly elevated at apex and 
at dark spot on outer boundary, widest near middle, there 
five cells deep, the outer marginal vein only slightly sin- 
uate; sutural area more widely areolate, with veinlets yel- 
lowish brown and areolae dark fuscous. Wings black-fus- 
