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plane. Female abdominal sternum VII moderately produced and bluntly 
angular; genital chamber with a large bilobate sclerite; ovipositor with 
first valvulae each bearing a laterobasal sclerite that is finely scobinate on 
its anterolateral portion, second valvulae as in S. limitata (Signoret) (fig. 
548k); pygofer as in S. perrist (Signoret) (fig. 547,). 
Crown, pronotum, scutellum, and forewings to membrane, castaneous, 
membrane fumose; face, thoracic pleura, and femora concolorous with dor- 
sum; tibiae and tarsi darker. 
Holotype male, Santa Catharina, Brazil (NCS). One male and two fe- 
males, Santa Catharina, Brazil, W. 50, S. 26, 100 m., September, 1929 (A. 
Maller) (BM). One female, Santa Catharina, Brazil, November, 1945 (A. 
Maller) (AMNH). Holotype on indefinite loan to USNM. 
S. lancifera, n. sp., is close to S. limitata (Signoret) in the structure of the 
male genitalia, but differs in the form of the paraphysis. No other species in 
the genus is without markings on the anterior dorsum. 

FIGURE 554.—Scoposcartula lancifera, n. sp. (from specimens from Santa 
Catharina, Brazil; A from lateral view): p, Base of left first valvula from ven- 
tral view. 
