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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



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prominent ; antennae probably exceeding the tips of the mngs (shghtly 

 defective in the types), fiUform. Pronotum with the disk strongly 

 deplanate, slightly expanding in width caudad, the greatest caudal 

 width contained slightly less than once and a half in the length ; cephalic 

 margin truncate, caudal margin arcuate, lateral angles distinct but 

 narrowly rounded, a fine impressed longitudinal median line present 

 on the disk; lateral lobes about as long as deep, ventro-cephalic angle 

 very broadly rounded, humeral sulcus marked but shallowly, the 

 caudal margin ventrad of this with a rounded obtuse angle from which 

 the ventro-caudal margin is diagonally subtruncate. Tegmina 

 elongate lanceolate, about four times as long as the combined length of 

 the head and pronotum, the greatest width contained nearly five times 

 in the length ; costal and sutural margins slightly approximating, the 



Fig. 18. — Turpllia paraguayensis n. sp. Lateral view of male type. (X 2^.) 



apex rounded ; discoidal vein with two rami in the distal section, both 

 of which reach the apical margin ; median vein diverging two-fifths the 

 distance from the base, furcate. Wings extending beyond the tegmina 

 a distance very nearly equal to the length of the pronotum, immediate 

 apex rectangulate. Terminal dorsal abdominal segment of the 

 male broadly and shallowly emarginate mesad and also on the lateral 

 faces; cerci short, stout at the base, tapering, with the immediate apex 

 sharply narrowed, hooked and spiniform, internal margin slightly 

 before the middle provided with a thick, l^lunt, peg-like process: 

 subgenital plate of the male produced, narrowed with a median ventral 

 carina and lateral thickened rods which extend to the base of the 

 short, slender styles, narrow distad margin of the plate with a rounded 

 V-shaped emargination. Ovipasitor as long as the head and half of 



