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oblique and varying from rectilinear to slightly convex; face without a vertical 
lenticular sclerite bordering lateral clypeal suture on each side, clypeus not or 
only slightly flattened medially, muscle impressions usually not distinct, trans- 
clypeal suture obsolete at middle, clypellus with contour usually continuing 
profile of clypeus or at most with its lower portion only slightly more nearly 
horizontal than its upper portion. 
Thorax with pronotal width equal to, less than, or greater than transocular 
width of head, lateral margins convergent anteriorly, dorsopleural carina com- 
plete, posterior margin slightly concave, disk without sculpturing or 
pubescence, scutellum weakly transversely striate behind transverse sulcus. 
Forewing becoming gradually membranous apically, the membranous area 
variable intraspecifically in extent, with three closed anteapical cells (outer- 
most often indistinct), of which the bases of the outer two are much more 
proximal than base of inner anteapical cell, with four apical cells (outermost 
often indistinct), the base of the fourth, when discernible, usually slightly 
more proximal than base of third, without an anteapical plexus of veins; 
forewings of female in rest position exceeding apex of ovipositor. Hindleg with 
femoral setal formula 2:1:1; length of first tarsomere greater than combined 
length of two more distal tarsomeres, and with two parallel rows of small 
setae on plantar surface. 
Male genitalia: Pygofer moderately produced, posterodorsal margin (apex) 
strongly convex, with numerous macrosetae on posterior half, pygofer 
processes usually absent (ventral pygofer processes occur in an undescribed 
species). Plates slender, triangular, usually extending posteriorly as far as, or 
farther than, pygofer apex, each bearing a number of macrosetae that are 
usually in a single longitudinal row. Style extending posteriorly at least as far 
as, usually farther than, connective, apex variable interspecifically, style 
without a preapical lobe. Aedeagus moderately long, with or without 
processes (varying interspecifically). Paraphyses present in most species, 
variable interspecifically. 
Female abdominal sternum VII moderately produced and_ tapered 
posteriorly to a narrowly rounded or acutangular apex. Genital chamber 
without sclerites. Ovipositor with second valvula broadened in most of length 
beyond basal curvature and bearing widely-spaced teeth near basal part of ex- 
panded portion, and intervening numerous small denticles, the teeth closer 
and bearing secondary denticles in apical part, apex narrowly rounded and 
with minute anteapical dorsal and ventral denticles. Pygofer with a number of 
macrosetae arranged irregularly posterodorsally. 
Species of Fusigonalia have a median dorsal fusiform black stripe extending 
from apex of crown to apex of clavus (with wings at rest), and additional 
black markings. The basal angles of the scutellum, a claval vitta tapering 
apically and a corial vitta tapering basally, are yellow or olive. A narrow 
yellow transverse band of varying extent occurs in the area of the apical cells. 
Fusigonalia occurs from southern Mexico to Bolivia. The genus is close to 
Juliaca Melichar, but none of the species of the latter have a median black 
vitta on the anterior dorsum. 
