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each slightly closer to median line of crown than to adjacent anterior 

 eye angle; without a distinct median M -shaped elevation bordering 

 posterior margin, widi a slight longitudinal elevation laterad of each 

 ocellus; coronal portion of muscle impressions elevated each side of 

 niedian fovea which extends almost to posterior margin of head; 

 antennal ledges elevated, with a longitudinal fovea, in lateral aspect 

 carinate dorsally and with anterior edges abruptly declivous; clypeus 

 depressed on disc, with muscle impressions distinct on each side; lower 

 portion of face strongly pubescent ; clypellus strongly angular in lateral 

 aspect, laterally compressed. 



Thorax with pronotal width about equal to transocular width of head, 

 lateral margins convergent anteriorly, with a very nearly complete 

 transverse sulcus behind and near anterior margin and with a second 

 transverse sulcus on each side near the first, posterior margin convex 

 or concave, dorsopleural carinae incomplete and oblique, or complete 

 and arcuate; scutellum transversely striate in posterior half. Forewing 

 coriaceous, without a membrane; veins elevated and distinct, surface 

 with a number of rather large depressions each containing a white 

 bloom, often punctate, often with short pubescence; with more than 

 four very short apical cells; corium with a broad anteapical plexus of 

 veins, with supernumerary anteapical crossveins to costal margin; 

 forewings of female, at rest, not attaining apex of ovipositor. Hindwing 

 with apex extending almost to apex of forewing, vein R2+3 entire. 

 Hindlegs with femoral setal formula 2:0:0; first tarsomere shorter than 

 combined length of second and third. 



Male genitalia: Pygofer in lateral aspect well-produced posteriorly 

 and narrowed to varying degrees, with microsetae variously distributed, 

 without processes. Plates fused through greater part of length, extend- 

 ing as far posteriorly as pygofer apex or not, gradually narrowed to 

 fairly broadly rounded apices. Styles extending posteriorly beyond ape.x 

 of connective, each with preapical lobe and rounded apically. Con- 

 nective Y-shaped with arms not widely divergent and stem broadly 

 expanded posteriorly, without a keel. Aedeagus fairly slender, curved 

 gradually dorsally, symmetrical with a lateral anteapical expansion on 

 each side, Paraphyses present, very closely associated basally with 

 posterolateral angles of connective, slender, each gradually tapered 

 to acute ape.x. 



Female abdominal sternum VII with a very slight median heavily 

 sclerotized angular projection. 



Homoscarta is primitive in a number of characteristics: the large size, 

 the produced clypellus, the plexus and the large number of apical cells 

 of the forewings, the entire R2+3 of the hindwings, the short posterior 

 femora, and the posterior femoral setal formula. The paraphyses arise 



