366 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
half transocular width. Male pygofer moderately produced, posterior margin 
broadly convex, without processes, with a number of macrosetae on posterior 
half of disk, with few interspersed very small setae; plates not extending 
nearly as far posteriorly as pygofer apex; style not extending as far posterior- 
ly as apex of connective which is almost semiovate in form; aedeagus with 
shaft broad, extending posterodorsally, ventral margin concave, with an apical 
medioventral unpaired slender acute process extending ventrally; paraphyses 
long-stalked, with rami slender and contiguous in their basal halves, swollen 
and divergent in their apical halves before the slender acute recurved apices. 
Head red, with a median longitudinal and an oblique lateral stripe passing 
through ocellus on each side, black; pronotum black with a median discal 
longitudinal stripe which does not attain anterior or posterior margin, two 
lateral slightly oblique stripes extending full length except for a slight inter- 
ruption behind anterior margin, and a small spot bordering anterior margin 
near its lateral extremity, red; clavus with four red spots, the basal two op- 
posite humeral margin and fused in some specimens, the middle spot lobate 
and extending slightly posteriorly along claval suture, the posteriormost 
located anteapically; corium with four large red spots in an oblique line 
parallel to claval suture and with three large red spots along costal margin, 
extending to claval disk, with a small triangular costal hyaline spot before and 
behind posteriormost red spot and a narrow hyaline area bordering concave 
apical margin of wing. 
Holotype male, El Valle, Panama, November, 1946 (N. L. H. Krauss); one 
male, Fort Davis, Panama Canal Zone, August 28, 1952 (F. S. Blanton); one 
male, Campinas, Panama, September 16, 1952 (F. S. Blanton); one male, 
Cerro Campana, Panama Province, Panama, April 19, 1952 (F. S. Blanton); 
and one specimen without abdomen, Turrialba, Costa Rica (Schild and 
Burgdorf) (USNM). 
L. variolaria, n. sp., can be separated readily from other species in the genus 
by the distinctive form of the paraphyses of the male. 
Ladoffa cavillator, NEW SPECIES 
FIGURE 293, PAGE 364 
Length of male 6.6-6.8 mm, of female 6.9 mm. Head with median length of 
crown from almost three-fourths of, to almost equal to, interocular width, and 
from slightly less than one-half to slightly greater than one-half transocular 
width; clypeus convex medially, muscle impressions not distinct. Male pygofer 
moderately produced, apical margin convex, without processes, with rather 
sparse mixed elongate and short macrosetae from middle of disk to postero- 
dorsal margin; plates not extending posteriorly nearly as far as posterior 
pygofer margin; style extending approximately as far posteriorly as apex of 
connective which is elongate-trapezoidal; aedeagus without processes, shaft 
curved slightly, its ventral margin slightly concave; paraphyses with stalk 
moderately long, rami tapering to acute tips. 
