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angular patch on the dorsoapical area of the second antennal segment, 
by the structure of the male genitalia, and by the color. 
PATARA VITTATIPENNIS, new species 
PLATE 10, FIGURES 202-207 
Male: Length, 2.0 mm.; tegmen, 2.5 mm. 
Antennae with second segment subcylindrical, expanding toward 
apex, uniformly minutely granular to apex, where it is bare in a circle 
around base of third segment. 'Tegmina with commissural margin dis- 
tinctly and widely excavated distad of apex of clavus. 
White or pallid; protarsi and mesotarsi very pale fuscous, mem- 
brane of abdomen red ventrally; tegmina hyaline, veins milky, costal 
cell fuscous basally, a distinct oblique pale fuscous band from middle 
of costal margin to anal angle, a paler band parallel to this from 
apical fork of Sc to tip of apical margin (cell M,), a faint fuscous 
cloud submarginally in intervening apical cells, a faint oblique fus- 
cous bar at apex of clavus, a second bar on the transverse vein between 
M and Cu,, a fuscous band posterior and parallel to claval suture, an 
oblique band from junction of claval veins across Cu, then bent 
through 40° to lie horizontally between M and Cu, posterior claval 
vein bordered fuscous on each side basad of junction; wings hyaline. 
Anal segment very short, subquadrate. Pygofer with lateral mar- 
gins slightly sinuate, ventral margin straight, devoid of medioventral 
process. Aedeagus tubular, curved dorsad distally; on right side two 
short, broad bladelike pointed laminae arising at apex and directed 
anteriorly; on left side a long sinuate spine arising three-quarters from 
base and directed anteriorly, a second spine arising slightly distad of 
former, curving dorsad and somewhat anteriorly. Genital styles in 
lateral view narrow at base, expanding in basal two-thirds then nar- 
rowed to apex, which is bluntly rounded; a vertical granular finger- 
like process on dorsal margin near base. 
Described from one male collected by the writer in St. John’s Valley, 
Trinidad, B. W. 1. (Sept. 21, 1942), resting ona leaf. Type, U.S.N.M. 
No. 56695. This species is distinguished by its uniformly granulate 
antennae, by the distinctly excavated commissural margin of the 
tegmina, by the shape of the genitalia, and by the tegminal pattern. 
PATARA POECILOPTERA, new species 
PLATE 10, Figures 208-213; PuateE 11, Ficurr 214 
Male: Length, 2.1 mm.; tegmen, 2.9 mm. 
Antennae with second segment subcylindrical, expanding toward 
apex, four times as long as wide in middle, as long as mesonotum with 
scutellum, somewhat obliquely truncate at apex, uniformly minutely 
