682 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
single row; style oblique at apex; aedeagus more slender and elongate than in 
other species of the genus, only slightly decurved; paraphyses symmetrical, S- 
shaped in lateral view with the rami directed posteroventrally. Female as in 
generic description. 
Head, pronotum, and scutellum shining dark reddish brown, pronotum 
with or without a pair of small widely separated orange discal spots; fore- 
wings black with six orange to yellow spots in a hexagonal pattern in their 
basal halves, and a similarly colored slender much larger transverse spot on 

FIGURE 555.—Schildola opaca, n. sp. (i-k, m, q, r, from topotype; remainder from 
holotype; / from lateral view): p, Style apex from lateral view; g, basalmost 
teeth of second valvula; r, apex of forewing. 
