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strong dorsal projection at approximately midlength, the distal margin of the 
projection irregularly dentate, and a unilateral recurved apical process. 
Female abdominal sternum VII well produced with posterior margin convex, 
not emarginate medially. Other structural characters as in P. lugubris, n. sp. 
Color of dorsum from sordid brown to pale yellow, the crown occasionally 
pink in the yellow specimens, with portion of plexus of veins parallel to costal 
margin always darker and conspicuous, venter approximately concolorous 
with dorsum, occasionally darker. 
Holotype male, Los Canales, Naiguata, Distrito Federal (Colombia), Sep- 
tember 24, 1938 (collector’s name illegible), 720 m. (USNM). A long series of 
paratypes of both sexes from near Maracay, Venezuela (BZ). 
P. venata, n. sp., is closely related to P. rufa (Walker) in the occurrence of a 
plexus of veins in the forewing and in the structure of the male pygofer, 
plates, style and connective. It differs markedly from all species in the genus 
in the bizarre form of the aedeagus. 
Paromenia marginata, NEW SPECIES 
FIGURE 220, PAGE 274 
Length of male 15.0-15.1 mm, of female 15.6-16.0 mm. Head with median 
length of crown from slightly more than half to more than six-tenths in- 
terocular width and approximately four-tenths transocular width, with a 
shallow transverse concavity before ocelli, lateral clypeal sutures usually at- 
taining ocelli; face with muscle impressions distinct. Pronotum with hind 
margin rectilinear or weakly convex; forewing with membrane including 
apical portions of apical cells, texture translucent to opaque, occasionally with 
a few of the claval veins darker, without an anteapical plexus of veins; first 
hind tarsomere with length equal to, or greater than, combined length of 
second and third tarsomeres. Male with pygofer not strongly produced, ob- 
liquely truncate apically, macrosetae few and irregularly arranged in a narrow 
dorsoapical group, with a number of regularly arranged microsetae on ventral 
half of disk, pygofer without processes; plates short, broad, rounded apically; 
style much more expanded apically than is usual in the genus, with a strong 
median and a strong lateral apical projection; connective a transverse bar 
with a strong median carina; aedeagus with shaft slender, broadest near apex, 
with an apical slender acute process which is not median. Female abdominal 
sternum VII with posterior margin convex and with a narrow shallow median 
regularly concave excision. Other structural characters as in P. lugubris, n. sp. 
Color tan to brownish yellow, forewing usually with few darkened veins 
near middle, claval apex black, apex of wing dark-bordered; face and venter 
usually concolorous with dorsum. 
Holotype male and three females, Chinchaniago, Peru, one male from 
‘Chanchamayo, Peru and a series of specimens of both sexes from Santa 
Isabel, Cuzco, Peru (NCS). Holotype on indefinite loan to USNM. 
P. marginata, n. sp., is probably more closely related to P. auroguttata 
-(Signoret) than to any other species in the genus. It can be separated from all 
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