368 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
Ground color of crown, pronotum, and scutellum, red, with a narrow me- 
dian longitudinal line which is slightly broadened at midlength and an ob- 
lique line on each side of crown, black, the latter submarginal and delimiting 
anterolateral marginal areoles of yellow or red; pronotum with a pair of 
longitudinal lines across disk, fused at anterior and posterior margins and a 
lateral marginal longitudinal band on each side, black; scutellum with a 
lobate black marking delimiting each basal angle; forewing black with red 
markings much as in L. variolaria, n. sp., above; face, thoracic pleura, and 
legs, yellow. 
Holotype male, Cayuga, Guatemala, January, 1951 (William Schaus); one 
male, ‘“‘Esquintla’’, Guatemala, May (Schaus and Barnes); one male, Septem- 
ber 23 and one female, September 24, La Ceiba, Honduras (F. J. Dyer) 
(USNM); one female, Los Amates, Guatemala, February 18-28, 1905 (OSU). 
Ladoffa cavillator, n. sp., is somewhat similar to L. vartolaria, n. sp., in color, 
but is much smaller, and without aedeagal processes or recurved apices of the 
paraphyses, both of which are characteristic of variolaria. 

FIGURE 296.—Ladoffa rubriguttata (Walker) (a, f, p, from specimen from Mo- 
jinga Swamp, Panama Canal Zone; remainder from San Isidro del General, 
Costa Rica): p, Forewing; g, style apex from lateral view; r, aedeagus from 
lateral view. 
