AB? PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL. 95 
length of basal cell, Sc+R forking close to stigma, anterior branch of 
M simple to apex; claval suture meeting commissural margin beyond 
middle of tegmen; clavus not granulate. Wings with veins of fourth 
apical cell without a common stalk at base, or with only a vestige. 
Anal segment of male bifid, the lateral lobes deflexed distally. Genital 
styles with a setose eminence on dorsal border behind apex. Ovipositor 
incomplete. Kge bluntly ovoid. 
Genotype: Hparmenoides ripalis, new species. 
EPARMENOIDES RIPALIS, new species 
PLATE 11, FigurES 215-220 
Male: Length, 1.9 mm.; tegmen, 2.0mm. Female: Length, 1.8 mm.; 
tegmen, 2.0 mm. 
Vertex testaceous, lateral carinae dark, a fuscous band transversely 
across middle, sometimes a pale line near each posterolateral angle; 
frons yellow, sometimes testaceous basally; clypeus very pale, genae 
pallid with a square black spot with its lower edge level with fronto- 
clypeal suture, first segment of antennae pale, second segment piceous, 
paler distally; pronotum testaceous, sometimes distinctly darker in 
anterior half, mesonotum narrowly fuscous anteriorly, otherwise 
testaceous, posterior margins and scutellum sometimes pallid; legs 
pallid; abdominal sclerites fuscous, membrane tinged red; tegmina 
yellowish, wings vitreous. 
Anal segment of male deeply bifid, lateral lobes symmetrical, de- 
flexed atapex. Pygofer with lateral margins sinuate, somewhat lobate | 
in upper half. Aedeagus tubular, sharply upturned and tapering 
in apical half, a conical projection ventrally near base, an inner pair 
of slender processes curving upward and caudad, a longer pair of — 
filamentous processes arising on upper margin about halfway from 
base, directed caudad and strongly upward, then looping forward, 
downward, and outward. Genital styles narrow, bent upward through 
45° two- aibbade from base, tapering to a point, with a rounded lobe 
on dorsal margin subapically. 
Lateral sles of female deeply cleft, the dorsal lobe narrow and 
tapering, the ventral lobe almost ovoid in outline. Pregenital plate 
subquadrate, about one and a half times as broad as long. 
Described from 12 males and 8 females taken by the writer in 
St. John’s Valley, Trinidad, B. W. I. (July 27, 1942), feeding be- 
low leaves of Cordia sp. Holotype male and allotype, U.S.N.M. 
No. 56698; paratype in B.M.N.H. This genus differs from Z'parmene 
Fowler in the shape of the frons and from Qwilessa Fennah in the 
proportions of the frons and in the venation of the tegmina and wings. 
