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widely spaced piliform spines followed by a row of smaller more 
closely spaced fine spines, small distal spine present, genicular spine 
absent. Mid and hind femora: ventro-anterior and posterior mar- 
gins unarmed (except for some small piliform spines), distal spines 
absent, small genicular spines present. Tarsal claws simple, equal, 
arolia and pulvilli well developed. Abdomen testaceous, lacking 
tergal glands; hind margin of supra-anal plate rounded and pilifer- 
ous; surface covered with small setae, more numerous on the pos- 
terior half (Fig. 15); right and left paraprocts bulbous (Fig. 12) ; 
subgenital plate asymmetrical, slightly indented on the right; styles 
absent (Figs. 13, 16). Genitalia shown in figure 10; R2 on right 
side, with a subapical incision; L2d separated from L2vm and with 
a lateral lobe which is directed dorsad; Li with a deep upturned 
cleft, heavily sclerotized along the margins; lower lobe (below cleft) 
without setae (what appears to be setae are actually on a membrane 
which overlaps the lobe). 
Table 1 . Measurements (mm) of Parasphaeria ovata 
Overall Pronotum Tegmen 
body length length width length width 
$ 
Chile, Type (Paris Museum) 
21 
4.3 
5.7 
25.5 
— 
Chile (Brunner’s specimen ; 
Vienna Museum) 
0 
22 
4.4 
5.8 
26 
Chile, Type (Paris Museum) 
26 
6.1 
9 
4.2 
3.1 
Peru (Brunner’s specimen; 
Vienna Museum) a 
28 
6.1 
8.3 
4.1 
2.9 
Ancud, Chiloe Island, Chile 
(2-7 April 1920, Cornell Univ. 
Exp.; Phila. Acad. Natural Sci., 
det. Hebard) 
25 
6.5 
9.1 
4.3 
3.2 
Araucana, S. Chile (R. M. 
Middleton, 1907-337; British 
Museum; det. Hebard, 1928) 
23 
5.6 
8.3 
4.2 
2.9 
Unlabeled specimen in British 
Museum 
28 
6.5 
10.4 
4.5 
3.4 
“Brunner (1865) lists Chile as 
the 
locality for 
his $ 
specimen, 
but th< 
label indicated it was from Peru. Rehn (1933) believed that P. ovata is 
limited in distribution to the southern half of Chile and he questioned the 
determination of Shelford’s record of a male from Ecuador. Two small 
nymphs, apparently of this species, at the British Museum had the following 
collection data: 1) L. Nahuel Huapi, Puerto Blest, 2-3. XII. 1926, Argen- 
tina, Terr. Rio Negro, F. and M. Edwards; 2) Casa Pangue, 4-10. XII. 
1926, S. Chile, Llanquihue prov., F. and M. Edwards. 
