668 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
preapical lobe, truncate apically; connective V-shaped; aedeagus with shaft 
curved slightly dorsally in apical half, its apex rounded, with a pair of ventral 
processes arising at base, and extending posterodorsally beyond apex of shaft; 
paraphyses present, asymmetrical, consisting of a stalk and two rami arising 
in apical half, each curved slightly posteriorly and ventrally. Female ab- 
dominal sternum VII with posterolateral margins scarcely produced, with a 
median posterior slender angular projection. 
Color of crown, pronotum, and scutellum, sordid yellow to sordid brown; 
forewings pale brown to dark brown, darker in color than crown, pronotum, 
and scutellum, each with a narrow stripe parallel to humeral and basal por- 
tion of inner claval margins, a short curved transverse marking before middle 
of clavus, and a similar one in apical half of clavus, the latter continuous with 
a transverse stripe across corium, with a parallel stripe across anteapical cells, 
an angular marking near base of corium, with or without additional variable 
markings in basal third of clavus, yellow; face, thoracic pleura, and legs, 
brown. 
Holotype male, Cumaragua, Venezuela (B. J. Blanco) and one female, San 
Esteban, Venezuela, November 22-30, 1939 (Pablo Anduze) (USNM). One fe- 
male, La Sierra, Cojeda, Venezuela, August 1946 (Villegas and Gines) (CAS). 
S. exaireta, n. sp., differs from other species in the genus in its lack of py- 
gofer processes, in its possession of paraphyses, and in the occurrence of ven- 
tral processes from the base of the shaft of the aedeagus. 

FIGURE 544.—Selvitsa exatreta, n. sp. (1, j, from specimen from La Sierra Cojeda, 
Venezuela; remainder from holotype; A from lateral view). 
