HEMirTERA FIOMOPTERA CERCOI'ID I' 



tinctly with a faitft median snlcation :nul in the middle of the lateral halves, 

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

 clear specimens. Smtellum moderately large, subequiangular, slightlv 

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

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

 the clavus occupying not more than a lit'th of the whole, which is fullv t\\o 

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

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

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

 onier 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 nlnar 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 ; allot' 

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

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

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

 vein beyond the middle of the apical half of the wing, the M-coiid bent 

 down to meet it ; third and fourth similarlv united scarcely beyond the 

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

 Io\\er branch abruptly curved at base. I-egs 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 >ides ..f 

 the body, scarcely broader than the slightly enlarged ape\ of the tibiae; 

 tibi;c longer than the femora, in the hind pair twice as long and with two 

 pairs of spines : tarsi considerably shorter than the tihia\ iii the ton' and 

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

 le-'s ihe lirst joint is slightlv shorter than the third. in-arK twice as long a> 

 the second, the lirst and .second with short spines at the ape\ beneath : third 

 joint at base half as wide as the second, enlarging in the apical halt'. Abdo 

 men full, lung ovate, hluntlv pointed. 



