Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . resent in the membranewhich attaches along the margin of the lateral inflected area. Nothingis known about this sclerite although it has been shown in drawings byearlier workers (, Tillyard, 1917, p. 16, fig. 4). The inner lobe (IL) and the outer lobe (OL) are two freely mov-able processes, the former being generally regarded as representingthe fused lacinia and galea of more typical mandibulate insects, andthe latter the palp. The inner lobe (IL) is a large process basally fused with the stipesbut separated from the parastipes by a narrow strip of m
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . resent in the membranewhich attaches along the margin of the lateral inflected area. Nothingis known about this sclerite although it has been shown in drawings byearlier workers (, Tillyard, 1917, p. 16, fig. 4). The inner lobe (IL) and the outer lobe (OL) are two freely mov-able processes, the former being generally regarded as representingthe fused lacinia and galea of more typical mandibulate insects, andthe latter the palp. The inner lobe (IL) is a large process basally fused with the stipesbut separated from the parastipes by a narrow strip of it is expanded on its mesal portion and adorned with manylong hairs. Apically it is narrowed and gently curved, ending in threeteeth pointing mesad, the apical tooth being very long and the middleone the smallest. The weakly sclerotized area along the mesal margin 10 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 122 of the apical half of the inner lobe bears three widely spaced teeth ofsubequal length, also pointing LABRUM
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