FULGOROIDEA OF TRINIDAD—FEN NAH AVY 
and antennae fuscous, frons minutely speckled with testaceous spots in 
basal half, clypeus with a small testaceous spot on each side of middle 
line at suture, genae with a pale transverse line at this level, with a 
pale line from its inner end down posterior edge; pronotum fuscous, 
carinae pale, a pale spot on disk on each side of middle lne; meso- 
notum fuscous, carinae pale, three testaceous spots on disk on each 
side of middle line, three pale spots on each side laterad of disk; teg- 
mina fuscous, conspicuously marked with round pale transparent 
spots, veins fuscous, membrane smoky, veins paler, becoming pallid 
or white at apex; wings rather smoky, veins darker; profemora and 
mesofemora fuscous, suffused pale at base and apex, one or two pale 
spots dorsally, postfemora fuscous, protibiae and mesotibiae fuscous 
with a pale spot one-third from base, apical third pale, posttibiae fus- 
cous with apical two-thirds paler on inner face, spines black, tarsal 
joints fuscous, pale apically, spines black; abdomen fuscous, membrane 
red. 
Ovipositor with lateral styles subquadrate, ventral margin almost 
straight, dorsal margin convex near base, sharply decurved apically, 
apical margin truncate, sinuate, produced into a short blunt lobe at 
ventral angle, dorsally a thin horizontal lobe directed posteriorly lying 
mesad and attached at base; second valvulae narrow, sclerotized dor- 
sally and ventrally at base, ventral margin produced into a shallow 
lobe apically; first valvulae ventrally with a thin bifid tapering lobe 
directed posteriorly, horizontal and underlain by a shorter sclerotized 
lobe obliquely truncate distally and minutely toothed, dorsal process 
of each valvula with upper margin decurved towards apex, with two 
small teeth subapically and a pair of larger curved spines at apex. 
Described from one female taken by the writer in St. John’s Valley, 
Trinidad, B. W. 1. (July 20, 1942), resting on fiddlewood. This spe- 
cies is distinguished by its size and color pattern. Type, U.S.N.M. 
No. 56704. 
Family TROPIDUCHIDAE 
Subfamily TAMBINIINAE 
10a. Subcosta giving off several furcate veins to costal margin. 
Tribe ALCESTINI 
Genus ALCESTIS Stal 
Alcestis STAL, Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 3, No. 6, p. 11, 1862. (Genotype, 
Alcestis pallescens Stal, ibid.) 
Vertex broader than long in middle, lateral margins parallel, apex 
rounded, posterior margin shallowly excavate, median carina usually 
present; frons longer than wide (about 1.5:1), medially carinate, mar- 
