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tally. Pronotum in middle at least one and a half times as long as 
vertex on same line, anterior margin strongly convexly produced, pos- 
terior margin angularly excavate, median carina distinct, lateral car- 
inae diverging parallel with hind margin of eyes; mesonotum with disk 
flat, tricarinate, carinae united anteriorly. Posttibiae with four spines. 
Tegmina with costal margin markedly rounded, costal membrane 
ample, Sc and R with a common stalk basally, M forking about level 
with union of claval veins, Cu, forking at same level or slightly more 
distad, nodal line, subapical line and apical line of transverse veins 
present, claval veins united about middle of clavus, anterior vein not 
connected with claval suture by a transverse vein, two or three trans- 
yerse veins near apex of clavus. 
VARCIOPSIS TENGUELANA, new species 
PLATE 15, FicurEs 433-440 
Male: Length, 8.5 mm.; tegmen, 11.0 mm. 
Vertex about 4.5 times as broad as long in middie; frons 1.38 times ) 
longer than broad. 
Testaceous or pale brown, carinae of mesonotum fuscous, legs tes- 
taceous, abdomen brown, tinged red at hind border of each segment; 
tegmina hyaline, veins brown, fuscous spot at stigma extending nar- 
rowly posteriorly to a round spot adjoining nodal line at R, apical 
areoles clouded brown near margin with a distinctly larger dark area 
in two or three apical areoles in M; wings hyaline, apical areoles 
clouded brown in distal quarter. 
Anal segment of male narrow in profile, deflexed beyond arms, 
truncate at apex, apical lateral angles slightly pointed. Aedeagus 
tubular, a pair of broad, rather shallowly curved lobes ventrally 
tapering to a slender point distally, ventrolaterad, halfway from base 
of aedeagus, a short flattened distally sinuate spine directed poste- 
riorly on each side, laterally on each side of aedeagus a thin simple 
spine, directed posteriorly, above this a long sclerotized rod, bifurcate 
distally and slightly curved mesad, attaining apex of aedeagus. 
Genital styles broad, dorsal margin in profile almost straight, ven- 
tral margin slightly convex, apical margin slightly sinuate, apical 
process long, peglike, directed upward and slightly curved anteriorly, 
truncate at apex. 
Described from two males collected by W. Buthn on cacao at 
Hacienda Tenguel, Ecuador (Aug. 20, 1920). Type in B.M.N.H.; 
paratype, U.S.N.M. No. 56707. According to W. E. China, who com- 
pared this species with Walker’s type of Ricania trigutta, it differs 
from the type in tegminal venation and genitaha. V. trigutta has a 
half line of transverse veins between the subapical line and the trans- 
verse fold; the color pattern is the same in both species. 
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