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the rami, and very broad. The rami are occasionally very slightly decurved 
- apically, but not nearly as strongly so as in L. nozama, n. sp. The curvature of 
the aedeagus of comitis is intermediate between insperata and paraensis, but not 
as great as in the last. The apicoventral angle of the adeagus is more pro- 
nounced in two of the comitis males than in the illustration (fig. 279f ) and the 
ventral shaft convexity may be larger or smaller than illustrated. 
Ladoffa paraensis, NEW SPECIES 
FIGURE 280, PAGE 350 
Length of male 6.2-6.6 mm, of female 6.6 mm. Head with median length of 
crown from seven-tenths to slightly more than eight-tenths interocular width 
and from four-tenths to slightly less than one-half transocular width; clypeus 
flattened dorsomedially, muscle impressions not very distinct. Male pygofer 
moderately produced, apical margin convex, without processes, with mixed 
_long and short macrosetae on posterior half in an oblique group parallel to 
posteroventral margin, with a few microsetae near ventral margin; plates as in 
L. insperata, n. sp.; style extending posteriorly slightly beyond apex of con- 
nective which is abruptly narrowed near midlength, slender through apical 
half; aedeagus with shaft slender and without processes, in lateral aspect 
almost semicircular, with an apicoventral lobe; paraphyses occurring as a 
_large sclerite between connective and aedeagus, broad and trilobed basally, 
narrowed beyond midlength, apex bilobed, the aedeagus articulating between 
the lobes. 
_ Color of crown red, with a median longitudinal and a marginal area before 
each eye, dull yellow; pronotum varying from tan margined with red an- 
teriorly and laterally, to red with a median longitudinal dull yellow vitta; 
scutellum dull yellow, tinged with red apically; forewing red, clavus with a 
broad marking bordering humeral margin, a broad transverse marking at 
midclavus, and claval extremity, black; corium with a basal mark straddling 
claval suture, extending along claval suture to a broad marking in basal half 
_ of corium, a broad bilobate marking approximately at midlength, its inner ex- 
tremity extending anteriorly along claval suture to join midclaval black spot, a 
discal anteapical marking with or without connections to a spot over inner 
apical cell, and an apical costal spot with a narrow hyaline anterior border, 
black, with a triangular hyaline area bordering concave portion of apical wing 
margin; face, venter, and legs, yellow. 
Holotype and two additional males and one female, ‘‘Para”’, Brazil 
_(USNM). One female, “Para’’, Brazil (MMB). 
_ L. paraensis, n. sp., is closely related to L. comitis, n. sp., from which it may 
be distinguished by its very distinctive paraphyses and by its more arcuate 
aedeagal shaft in lateral aspect. 
