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less oval in shape, rounded apically ; pterostigma present. Geni- 

 talia of male simple; anal valve and claspers w^ithout processes. 

 Type of genus : Paurocephala psylloptera sp. nov. 



Paurocephala psylloptera sp. nov. 



Length of body, 1.7 mm. ; length of forewing, 2.1 mm. Male 

 much darker than female, almost uniformly dark reddish brown, 

 with anterior femora and a spot above forewings yellowish; ab- 

 domen lighter; female orange to light reddish brown; antennse, 

 tibiae, and eyes brovim. Body sparsely and briefly pubescent. 



Head greatly deflexed, almost perpendicular; vertex broader 

 than long, surface irregular, deeply concave on occipital margin, 

 with posterior ocelli greatly elevated, roundly convex in front; 

 anterior ocellus large, between antennal bases; frons swollen 

 beneath antennal insertions; labrum very large, globose from 

 in front. Antennse nearly twice as long as width of head, slender. 



Thorax broad, strongly arched; pronotum long, ascending, 



Fig. 1. Paurocephala. psylloptera Crawford. A, head, front view ; B, male genitalia ; C, 



forewing. 



longest at center; dorsulum long. Metascutum with a promi- 

 nent, acute, erect, conical process dorsad. Mesostemum very 

 large, extending far ventrad, rostrum projecting forward be- 

 neath head. Legs slender; hind legs very long; hind tibiae very 

 spinose. Forewings hyaline, narrowed basally, broadest sub- 

 apically, broadly rounded or slightly angular on apical margin, 

 more than two and a half times as long as broad ; cubital petiole 

 and discoidal subcosta equal in length; first marginal cell elon- 

 gate, narrow, a little longer than pterostigma ; second broad and 

 large. 



Abdomen long. Male: fifth tergite produced caudad over 

 genital plate; anal valve simple, longer than claspers which 

 are slender, arched, pubescent within. Female genitalia flexed 

 sharply downward, rather long; both plates acute at tip, dorsal 

 longer than ventral. 



Described from 3 males and 3 females from Los Banos, P. I. 

 (Baker, August, 1912). Collected on Ficus ulmifolia. 



