284 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
topotypes, collected October to December (CAS). One male, same locality, 
collected in August. One male, Purts River, Brazil (OSU). 
P. rossi, n. sp., is closely related to P. propria, n. sp., from which it differs 
markedly in its broader pygofer process which is directed dorsally instead of 
posteriorly as in propria, in its narrower lateral processes of the aedeagal shaft, 
and in the presence of the narrow acute apical process. 
This species is named in honor of E. S. Ross of the California Academy of 
Sciences whose many collections in the tropics have aided materially in the 
present study. 
Paromenia rimacensis, NEW SPECIES 
FIGURE 228, PAGE 280 
Length of male 11.2-12.3 mm, of female 12.0-13.3 mm. Head with median 
length of crown varying from slightly less than six-tenths to slightly more than 
six-tenths interocular width and from one-third to four-tenths transocular 
width, with a distinct transverse concavity before ocelli. Pronotum with 
posterior margin varying from slightly convex to slightly concave; forewing 
without a membrane, translucent, the veins not darkened, with an anteapical 
plexus of veins; first posterior tarsomere with length approximately equal to 
combined length of two more distal tarsomeres. Male pygofer moderately 
produced, subangulate posterodorsally, posteroventral margin broadly convex, 
macrosetae not numerous, located on posterior half of disk, with numerous 
microsetae, pygofer without processes, plates triangular with apices rounded, 
not extending nearly as far posteriorly as pygofer apex. Female abdominal 
sternum VII produced, posterior margin convex on each side of a shallow me- 
dian notch. Color entirely dull yellow. 
Holotype and two additional males and two females, Lima, Peru, Septem- 
ber 29 (Wille); two males, Lima, Peru, June, 1928 (G. N. Wolcott); one 
female, Peru (P. R. Uhler collection); one male and one female, Lima, Peru 
(Lot 2-11 °30); three males and three females, La Molina, Peru, December 1, 
1960 (Molleda), on Pennisetum purpureum Schumann; two males and one 
female, Lima, Peru, June 27, 1965 (Woytkowski), in light trap; one male, 
Olmos, Peru (D. Ojeda) and one female same data except collector 
(‘‘Korytkowski’’); two females, Cafiete, Peru, January 4, 1942 and one female 
same locality, December 14, 1941 (all E. J. Hambleton) (USNM). Two males 
and one female, Bella Vista, near Callao, Peru (MMB). Two females, Peru, 
March, 1903 (BM). Three males and six females, Chaclacayo, Peru, 750 
meters (AMNH). 
The male genitalia of P. rimacensis, n. sp., are similar to P. auroguttata 
(Signoret), but the specimens are more robust and the plexus of the fore- 
wings differs from auroguttata. 
