230 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
5. Pronotum with width greater than transocular width of head ........... 6 
Pronotum width less than transocular width of head .................... 8 
6. Markings of pronotum and forewings consisting of yellow spots on a red 
background; style rounded at apex; paraphyses irregularly dentate 
pardaliota, n. sp., page 231 
Markings of pronotum and forewings consisting of round yellow or red 
spots on black background; style truncate at apex; paraphyses not den- 
TALE eee tes ev ert e sence erneres Oy 64 et 6 pEt ij 
7. Crown with a spot or an approximate pair of spots at middle of posterior 
margin; paraphyses broadest apically .......... dariona, n. sp., page 233 
Crown without such a spot or spots; paraphyses broadest anteapically 
duodecimpunctata (Germar) (fig. 192) 
8. Forewings with longitudinal linear pale markings on clavus and corium 
juliacoides, n. sp., page 237 
Forewings with spots or bands short and transverse when present ....... 9 
9. Size smaller, length 8.0-8.4 mm; pale spots of forewing small, with only 
one transverse pale band near apex of each wing, or if two present, then 
VELY NALTOW nw wens aegis eaten Cte sake ee elegantissima (Blanchard) 
Size larger, length 8.9-9.5 mm; pale spots of forewings large, with two 
broad transverse pale bands near apex of each wing 
albofasciata (Walker) (fig. 185) 
Amblyscartidia incredibilis, NEW sPECIEs 
FIGURE 186, PAGE 232 
Length of male 9.6-10.4 mm, of female 10.4-11.1 mm. Head with median 
length of crown varying from more than four-tenths to less than six-tenths in- 
terocular width, and from three-tenths to less than four-tenths transocular 
width, clypeus with muscle impressions not distinct, clypellus in profile con- 
tinuing contour of face. Pronotum with width less than transocular width of 
head, lateral margins parallel, dorsopleural carinae incomplete, posterior 
margin convex or concave; forewing with membrane not sharply delimited. 
Male with style extending posteriorly well beyond apex of connective, with a 
lobe near midlength (as in A. albofasciata (Walker), fig. 185e); connective U- 
shaped; paraphyses with stalk much longer than rami which are curved, 
strongly divergent, each tapering and acute at apex; aedeagus triangular in 
lateral view with its posterior margin regularly convex. Female abdominal 
sternum VII well produced, lateral margins slightly tapered, posterior margin 
with a very slight convexity on each side of a very slight median concavity. 
Color of crown and pronotum black, with transverse arc on crown and a 
transverse band on pronotum at its midlength, attaining lateral margins; fore- 
wing chocolate brown with three pale yellow spots in basal half of each wing, 
one in base of clavus, one beyond its midlength, and the third in corium, and 
with two transverse pale yellow bands in apical half of wing, one extending 
from base of outer anteapical cell slightly obliquely to claval suture near its 
