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Size medium. Head with its dorsal length about three-fourths 

 (male) to four-fifths (female) that of the pronotum; occiput con- 

 siderably inflated, arcuate, the vertex and f astigium strongly (female) 

 or very considerably (male) declivent; interocular space half as wide 

 as (male) or half again as wide as (female) the proximal antennal 

 joint, narrowly sulcate in the male, moderately excavate in the 

 female; f astigium short, much broader than long, the apical margin 



Fig. 38.— Parascopas c hapadensis. Lateral view of male type, (x 3) 



truncate, the lateral margins slightly arcuato-concave, the surface 

 considerably (male) or shallowly (female) excavate; fastigio-facial 

 angle rounded broad obtuse-angulate, face considerably retreating, 

 slightly arcuate, the interantennal region slightly produced in the 

 male; frontal costa moderately broad, subequal, very slightly con- 

 stricted immediately ventrad of the ocellus, about reaching the 

 clypeal suture in the male, subobsolete a short distance dorsad of it 

 in the female, surface plane dorsad and slightly sulcate 

 ventrad of the ocellus in the female, moderately sulcate 

 ventrad and a distance dorsad of the ocellus in the male, 

 the dorsal third biseriate punctate in the same sex ; lat- 

 eral facial carinas prominent, divergent; eyes prominent, 

 particularly in the male, subovate (female) or short 

 ovate (male)^ in outline, distinctly longer than the infra- 

 ocular portion of the gense in both sexes ; antennae fili- 

 form, elongate, in length less than half (female) or four- 

 fifths (male) that of the body. Pronotum very lightly 

 sellate, distinctly arcuate in transverse section ; cephalic 

 margin subarcuate with a very shallow median emargina- 

 tion, caudal margin very slightl}^ arcuate (male) or arcuato-truncate (fe- 

 male), lateral angles rounded, no appreciable shoulders present ; median 

 carina very weak and low, more apparent on the metazona than 

 elsewhere; transverse sulci three in number, metazona about half the 

 length of the prozona; lateral lobes distinctly longer than deep, ven- 



FlG. 39.~Para- 

 scopaschapa- 

 DENSis. Dor- 

 sal VIEW OF 

 APEX OF male 

 ABDOMEN. ( X 

 6) 



