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lateral lobe near middle of shank. Connective elongate T-shaped, the stalk ex- 
tending posteriorly much beyond the style apices and articulating with a slen- 
der median sclerotized structure that extends dorsally and articulates with the 
aedeagus. Aedeagus falciform, its apex directed ventrad, gonopore on 
posterior margin near midlength of shaft. Paraphyses absent (perhaps 
represented by extra segment of aedeagus described above). 
Female abdominal sternum VII with posterior margin produced and 
gradually tapered to subtruncate apex. Ovipositor with second valvulae broad 
beyond basal curvature and bearing primary teeth that are small near base, 
but broad through most of dorsal margin, apices acute, ventral margins recti- 
linear. Pygofer moderately produced with posterodorsal margin narrowly 
rounded. The second valvulae are much like the illustration of Balacha 
melanocephala (Signoret) (fig. 593); the pygofer like Cyclogonia serenula (Breddin). 
Palingonalia, new genus, is known only from the type-species, which occurs 
in French Guiana and eastern Brazil. I have seen the lectotype and three 
additional specimens. The species is marked like several species of Soosiulus, 
new genus, black and orange. 
I have placed Palingonalia near Soosiulus because of its similarity in appear- 
ance, because species with a similar aedeagus occur in Soostulus, and because 
the latter includes species with an elongate connective. The long median 
sclerite beyond the connective and the peculiar form of the eighth sternum of 
the male; and the acute second valvulae of the female differ from Soosiulus. 

FIGURE 347.—Palingonalia bigutta (Signoret) (a, i, from specimen from Bahia, 
Brazil; remainder from French Guiana): p, Male pygofer, plates (without 
setae) and sternum VIII, from lateral view; g, male sternum VIII and plates, 
from ventral view; r, apex of connective,“‘paraphysis”, and aedeagus, from 
lateral view. 
