360 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
divergent; aedeagus with shaft short and decurved, its ventral margin con- 
cave, with an elongate, slender, slightly curved process arising basiventrally 
and extending ventrally, with a slight angular anteapical ventral projection. 
Paraphyses  short-stalked, the rami elongate, parallel, gradually tapered. 
Color (see remarks below) of crown, pronotum, and scutellum, tan, with an 
apical median wedge on crown and a pair of median longitudinal spots, a 
spot on each side on disk of pronotum, pale; forewing with pale spots located 
as in L. sannionis, n. sp. (above) except that the middle of the three claval 
spots extends slightly posteriorly along claval suture and may be interrupted 
to consist of two spots, there are only three spots touching costal margin, and 
that the posteriormost of the costal spots is not divided; face, thoracic pleura, 
and legs, dull gray. 
Holotype male and a series of one additional male, three females and one 
specimen without abdomen, Limon, Costa Rica, May 12, 1956 (F=Lara.\E.), 
on cacao (USNM). 
The colors of the type-series are probably not natural. The specimens ap- 
pear to have been collected in a liquid which affected them in such a way to 
remove the red, so that the spots of the forewing appear pale whitish. The 
species is described in spite of this, because the form of the aedeagus will 
separate it from other species in the genus and because it appears to be of 
economic importance. 
Since the above was written, I have seen a good series from LaLola, Costa 
Rica, from cacao, collected by M. J. Stelzer in April and May. The speci- 
mens are in the University of Wisconsin collection. 
Ladoffa lentiginosa, NEW SPECIES 
FIGURE 288, PAGE 359 
Length of male 6.2-6.4 mm, of female 6.1-6.8 mm. Head with median 
length of crown from slightly less than nine-tenths to slightly more than nine- 
tenths interocular width and slightly more than one-half transocular width; 
clypeus slightly flattened medially in its dorsal one-half, muscle impressions 
distinct or not. Male pygofer moderately produced, posterior margin very 
broadly convex, without processes, with a number of elongate macrosetae 
interspersed with short macrosetae on posterior half of disk; plates not ex- 
tending posteriorly nearly as far as pygofer apex; style extending posteriorly 
approximately as far as apex of connective; aedeagus without processes, shaft 
slightly decurved, ventral margin concave, apicoventral margin extending ven- 
trally and acutangular; paraphyses long-stalked, tapered and acute apically. 
Ground color of crown red, with a median longitudinal stripe extending 
over slightly more than basal one-half, tan; pronotum tan with a median 
longitudinal and two lateral oblique red stripes, none of which reach anterior 
pronotal margin; scutellum concolorous with ground color of pronotum, with 
a conspicuous median anteapical red spot; forewing black with three large red 
claval spots, the basal one opposite humeral margin, the middle one ex- 
tending to commisssural margin with an anterior lobe near middle of clavus 
