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margin varying from obtusely to acutely angular in dorsal view, not angulate 
or carinate at transition from crown to face, ocelli located on or slightly before 
(S. lineiceps (Spinola)) a line between anterior eye angles, each slightly closer 
to adjacent anterior eye angle than to median line of crown; surface longi- 
tudinally broadly (linetceps), or narrowly (S$. linea (Taschenberg)) foveate, or 
slightly concave between ocelli, surface coarsely punctate, lateral clypeal 
sutures extending onto crown and attaining ocelli; antennal ledges not pro- 
tuberant, their anterior margins rectilinear or concave, and vertical or ob- 
lique; face in profile slightly convex, clypeus seldom and then only slightly 
flattened medially, median area coarsely punctate, transclypeal suture rarely 
complete, lower portion of clypellus more nearly parallel to longitudinal axis 
of body than remainder of profile of face, face without pubescence. 
Pronotum with width less than transocular width of head, lateral margins 
parallel or slightly convergent anteriorly, dorsopleural carina present but 
incomplete, posterior margin concave; entire surface coarsely punctate, 
without pubescence; scutellum coarsely punctate. Forewing with membrane 
present but not abruptly delimited from remainder of surface, including all or 
only part (linea males) of apical cells, veins distinct and elevated, with four 
apical cells, the base of the fourth more proximal than base of third, central 
anteapical cell open basally, without an anteapical plexus of veins, texture of 
portion before membrane coriaceous, often with basal portion coarsely 
punctate; forewings of female at rest position exceeding apex of ovipositor. 

FIGURE 494.—Syncharina linea (Taschenberg) (a from holotype; 1, j, from 
another specimen from Mendoza, Argentina; remainder from Argentina). 
