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Figures 82, 83. — 82, Paraulacizes irrorata (Fabricius) (a and b from specimen 

 from Virginia; c-g, j, from Florida (plate not shown in c); i, from Maryland): 

 j, male pygofer, posterior view. 83, P. piperata (Fowler), topotype. 



shaped with stem much longer than slightly divergent arms. Aedeagus 

 symmetrical, shaft very short with pair of slender, tapering ventral 

 processes which greatly exceed shaft apex. Paraphyses absent. 



Female abdominal sternum VII variable interspecifically. 



Species of Paraulacizes are known from North and Central America. 

 The genus is very closely related to Aulacizes, from which it may be 

 disdnguished most readily by the usually inflated form of its pygofer 

 processes and by the form of its aedeagal processes. The identity of 



