Body: Wide and flat; breadth 0.3 mm at widest part, length 0.75 mm. Mouth parts extremely small, situated on a shield-like structure having a vase-like shape, a ventral longitudinal central keel with an apical neck opening anteriorly so that each lip projects as a fine filament on each side. The body of the shield bears six relatively long setae and ten short setae as shown in Fig. 12. Each maxilla long, thin, slightly tapering and capillary-like with the apex opening out to a small funnel shape (Fig. 14). Alongside the maxillae are two needle-like structures which may be part of maxillary palp (Fig. 12). The mandibles are long, thin, tapering, slightly curved and needle-like, with two extremely small apical teeth forming a heavily pigmented page 43 page 44 mandibular head (Fig. 13). Three widely separated ocelli to each side (Fig. 16). PAO and furcula absent. Antennae shorter than head in ratio of 7:10 clothed with numerous long simple setae, occasional short, straight, tapering sense rods, and on Ant. IV, 3-4 stout bent sense rods as shown in Fig. 11. Sensory organ of Ant. III consists of two very small sensory clubs, no bigger than an integumentary tubercle, and lying behind a small integumentary fold as shown in Fig. 10. The genital opening is situated on a small dome bearing about 16-17 setae arranged in three somewhat irregular rows along its anterior margin. Abd. VI is shallowly bilobed.