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Psyche 
[December 
lobe absent; with weakly developed lines of flexion present between 
MA and MP and between CuP and iA; crossveins and forkings 
lacking dense tufts of erect setae; similar dense tufts from trichosors 
of wing margin also lacking. Hind wing: with C and Sc running 
very closely together for most of distance from wing base to ptero- 
stigma; no basal crossvein in subcostal space; stem of M passing be- 
neath R, but free from this vein to base of wing; CuA paralleling 
posterior margin and reaching into distal 1/3 of wing, with numer- 
ous pectinate marginal forks; no trace of CuP present; jugal vein 
absent; a weak line of flexion developed between bases of M and 
R, continuing a short distance distal to the basal free piece of MA. 
Male unknown. Female (Figs. 2, 3, 4) : 7th sternite (Figs. 2, 
3, 7S) widely unsclerotized posteriorly and in midline, represented 
as two separated bilateral pieces, without the development of thin, 
rod-like lateral sclerites; 8th sternite (Figs. 2, 3, 8S) thin and strap- 
like laterally, with an anteriorly directed median lobe; 8th gono- 
coxites (Figs. 2, 3, 8gcx) represented as a small concave sclerite just 
anterior to gonopore; 9th gonocoxites (Figs. 2, 3, 9gcx) large, with 
well-developed, elongate hypocaudae; 9th gonapophyses lacking; 10th 
sternite (Fig. 3, 10S) represented as a weakly sclerotized area dorsad 
of 9th gonocoxites; genital chamber (Fig. 2. gen. ch.) large, with 
duct from collateral gland emptying into it posteriorly, widely con- 
fluent with copulatory bursa (Figs. 2, 3, 4, cop. b.), closed by an- 
teriad appression of membranous area between 9th gonocoxites against 
large convex lobe of weakly sclerotized cuticle just posteriad of 8th 
sternite; copulatory bursa, somewhat small, consisting of membranous 
distal portion and a well-sclerotized, coiled proximal area from which 
the spermathecal duct originates; spermathecal duct (Fig. 4 ? sp. d.) 
elongate and looped; spermatheca (Figs. 2, 4, sp.) intricately coiled, 
sclerotized, with a prominent spherical diverticulum and with ap- 
parent cuticular attachments for glandular epithelium along one side 
just proximal to origin of fertilization canal; fertilization canal lack- 
ing usual fringe of cuticular attachments for glandular epithelium 
(Fig. 4, fert. c.). 
Type species: Sphaeroberotha dumonti Navas. 
Sphaeroberotha dumonti Navas 
Sphaeroberotha dumonti Navas, 1930 . Broteria 26: 134 - 135 , fig. 44. De- 
scribed from a single female now located in the collections of the Museum 
National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, MacLeod and Adams, 1967 , Psyche 
74 : 254 . 
