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tinctly with a faint median sulcation and in the middle of the lateral halves, 

 anteriorly, with posteriorly converging similar carinse, to be seen only in 

 clear specimens. Scutellum moderately large, subequiangular, slightly 

 broader than long, the sides faintly concave, continuons with the angles of 

 the thorax, the base truncate, the tip sharply pointed. Tegmina long oval, 

 the clavus occupying not more than a fifth of the whole, which is fiilly two 

 and a half times as long as broad, tapering only at the extreme tip and 

 roundly pointed slightly above the middle line, the costal margin pretty 

 strongly convex ; the costal vein appears to be lacking; the radial with its 

 outer fork runs in one continuous line parallel to the costal margin through- 

 out and at a moderate distance from it ; its inner fork parts from it a very 

 little beyond the middle of the wing, the ulnar forking considerably before 

 the middle ; all these branches parallel and united by subcontinuous cross- 

 veins parallel to the apical margin, from the middle of each of which the lon- 

 gitudinal veins continue to the margin, one or two of the upper ones (and 

 especially the second) usually widely forked, forming apical cells nearly a 

 sixth the length of the wing; besides this, straight but rather strongly 

 oblique cross- veins connect the upper radial branch to the margin ; all of 

 this minor venation is sometimes obscured by the opacity of the membrane. 

 Wings a little shorter than the tegmina, of the usual form, the marginal vein 

 continuous; second and third longitudinal veins united by a straight cross- 

 vein beyond the middle of the apical half of the wing, the second bent 

 down to meet it ; third and fourth similarly united scarcel}^ beyond the 

 middle of the wing, the fourth deeply forked, almost to the cross-vein, the 

 lower branch abruptly curved at base. Legs short and slender, the fore and 

 middle pair of nearly the same length, the hind pair a little longer ; all the 

 femora and particularly the hind pair very short, not reaching the sides of 

 the body, scarcely broader than the slightly enlarged apex of the tibiae ; 

 tibise longer than the femora, in the hind pair twice as long and with two 

 pairs of spines ; tarsi considerably shorter than the .tibiae, in the fore and 

 middle legs shorter, in the hind legs longer, than the femora ; in the hind 

 legs the first joint is slightly shorter than the third, nearly twice as long as 

 the second, the first and second with short spines at the apex beneatli ; third 

 joint at base half as wide as the second, enlarging in the apical half Abdo- 

 men full, long ovate, bluntly pointed. 



