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in front it is slightly wider than long, the dorsal part strongly rounded in 
outline, the cheeks strongly converging below toward the mouth; occiput 
only slightly coneaye, its dorsal margin acute; eyes large, broadly oval, a 
little broader below and not quite reaching to the occipital margin, the 
width of each somewhat more than a third of the total width of head; 
frontovertex slightly more than twice as long as wide, its sides parallel; 
ocelli either in an equilateral triangle or with distance between the pos- 
terior pair slightly less than the other two sides of the triangle, the 
anterior ocellus placed slightly behind the center of the frontovertex, the 
posterior pair about one-fourth their own diameter from the eyes and about 
twice their diameter from the occipital margin; cheeks somewhat shorter 
than the greatest width of eyes; the face a little longer than the cheeks, 
the serobal impression moderately deep and nearly semi-circular, the scrobes 
proper in the form of converging lines not meeting above. 
Antennae inserted far apart close to the clypeal margin; scape slender, 
slightly flattened but not expanded, reaching well beyond the scrobal im- 
pression of face; pedicel long and slender or about equal to the first three 
funicle joints and one-half of the fourth joint combined, or a little more 
than one-third as long as the scape proper; funicle joints gradually increas- 
ing in size distad, all somewhat wider than long, the fifth not quite twice 
as wide as the first; club large, oval, a little longer than the funicle, well 
rounded and slightly obliquely truncate at apex. 
Mandibles with the two outer or ventral teeth distinct, the middle one 
longer and more acute, but the inner or dorsal tooth nearly rectangular. 
Maxillary palpi four-jointed, the joints not greatly unequal in length, the 
first one shortest, the apical one longest, and the third one stoutest; labial 
palpi indistinctly three-jointed with the middle joint very short and per- 
haps not always differentiated. 
Thorax moderately convex above, the collar of pronotum of about the 
normal structure found in Aphycus and allies; mesoseutum twice as wide 
as long, without traces of parapsidal lines; axillae rather large, twice as 
wide as long, and meeting rather broadly at their inner tips; scutellum 
somewhat longer than its basal width, acute at apex, the disk strongly 
depressed, the lateral margins abruptly declivous and well elevated; pro- 
podeum very short medially, but longer at the sides, depressed anteriorly, 
but strongly declivous on posterior half, especially at the sides. 
Wings reaching well beyond apex of the abdomen and moderately wide; 
submarginal vein with about twelve well developed setae; the marginal 
vein punctiform, the postmarginal somewhat longer than the marginal, but 
indistinct and with one moderately large seta; stigmal vein moderately 
long, enlarged at apex, but not slender at base as in P. angelicus (Howard) ; 
disk of wing uniformly pubescent, even in the basal area, the setae being 
considerably coarser and not so dense as in angelicus, the costal cell with 
four rows of fine setae in its basal half and with one to three rows in 
different parts of the apical half, the setae near apex of the cell becoming 
much larger; speculum yery narrow next to the stigmal vein, but widening 
