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Figs. 17-19. Adult females of Parasphaeria ovata. 17. Thorax and part 
of abdomen (Chile, U.S. National Museum; det. Gurney). 18. Peru (Brun- 
ner’s specimen from the Natural History Museum, Vienna). 19. Terminal 
segments of female shown in Fig. 18. (scale: tig. 17 — 4 mm, fig. 1 8 ~ 
5 mm, 19 = 2 mm) . 
Male measurements are shown in Table 1. 
$ (Figs. 17, 18). — Dark brown, metallic. Head exposed beyond 
front margin of pronotum, largely black, shiny, with widely spaced 
fine dot-like impressions; labrum, lower border of clypeus, and area 
above and below antennal insertions testaceous; lower part of frons 
weakly wrinkled; antennae black, not quite length of body; last 
segments of maxillary palps darker than the others. Pronotum con- 
vex, widest at posterior border; uneven testaceous band borders the 
pronotum to the hind margin; posterior angles black. Tegmen lobi- 
form, lateral, reaching slightly beyond hind margin of mesonotum, 
testaceous except for a dark incomplete humeral stripe. Metanotum 
black with a testaceous spot at each of the 2 anterior angles and 2 
other similar markings on the posterior border within the posterior 
