200 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
not extending posteriorly nearly as far as pygofer apex, with uniseriate 
macrosetae. Style with or without preapical lobe. Connective not fused with 
paraphyses which consist of a short basal portion and slender, elongate rami. 
Aedeagus with shaft elongate, often asymmetrical as result of unpaired short 
processes. 
Female abdominal sternum VII very narrow, strongly produced posteriorly. 
Dorsal membrane of genital chamber with or without a conspicuous median 
plate. Ovipositor with valvulae II each expanded in apical two-thirds of por- 
tion beyond basal curvature, broadest before midlength, dorsal margin of the 

FIGURE 162.—Poeciloscarta aurorula (Breddin) (a from specimen from Bogota, 
Colombia; c-e, h, from Tumupasa, Bolivia; remainder from Tingo Maria, 
Peru): p, Teeth at base of toothed portion of second valvula of ovipositor. 
