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Head distinctly narrower than pronotum; vertex usually no longer 

 medially than next to eye, but distinctly longer medially in some 

 specimens, interocular width more than 3 times median length; ocellus 

 located at a distance of from IK to 2 times its diameter from eye; 

 anteclypeus widest apically, exceeding gena; postclypeal sutures 

 parallel above antenna! pits; pronotum more than three tunes as long 

 as vertex; hind femoral chaetotaxy 2-1-1; female with posterior mar- 

 gin of abdominal sternum VII truncate, occasionally slightly sinuate. 



Figure 1. — B. p. punctata: a, aedeagus, lateral view, 0.1 mm scale; b, style and connective, 

 dorsal view; c, male pygofer, lateral view; d, valve and plate, ventral view, 0.1 mm scale; 

 e, female abdominal sternum VII, ventral view. 



Male pygofer with less than 15 setae, postero ventral margin with a 

 small rounded projection; plates broadly triangular, extending posteri- 

 orly as far as pygofer apex; connective expanded apically and bifid, 

 longer than style, stem longer than arms, angle between arms rounded; 

 style with preapical lobe rounded, apical extension rounded apically; 

 aedeagus broad at base, parallel margined for approximately basal 

 one-third then narrowed, shaft slender. 



Color from pale green to diJl browTi; face commonly with oblique 

 brown lines on each side of midline; vertex and pronotum commonly 

 with orange markings, pronotum commonly with dark longitudinal 



