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anteriorly. The rostrum reaches almost to the apex of the foreeoxa. The last 

 segment is nearly twice the length of the last but one. The first anteunal segment 

 bears numerous small hairs at the apex. The club is about four times as long 

 as it is broad, the segments being sharply separated. 



Thorax. — The pronotnm bears cue row of bristles and a comb of twenty-one 

 teeth. There are three rows of bristles on the mesonotum, besides some additional 

 short dorsal bristles and a basal row of rather long thin hairs. Three long slender 

 subapical spines are jslaced on each side. The sternum bears a nearly horizontal 

 row of three bristles in the middle and some short Iiairs near the upper corner. 

 On the ejiimernm there are eleven bristles. The metanotum, which is shorter than 

 the mesonotum, possesses one apical spine on each side and three rows of bristles, 

 the anterior row being quite irregular. The episternum and sternum have each 

 one bristle, while there are ten on the epimerum. 



Abdomen. — The first tergite bears four rows of bristles, the other tergites two, 

 with some additional bristles representing a third. The number of spines on the 

 two sides together are : 2. 4. 2. 2. 2. The seventh tergite bears two long stout 

 apical spines placed on a double cone. Proximally of, as well as below them, there 

 are a few hairs. The stigmata are round, and stand above the first bristle of 

 the posterior row. There is no bristle on the basal sternite. The following sternite 

 bears two bristles and the next three sternites three, all having two shorter ones 

 iu front of them. On the sternite of the seventh segment there is a row of three 

 long bristles, with tliree additional shorter ones in front. 



Legs. — The bristles of the mid- and hindcoxae are few iu number. There are 

 two posteriorly at the apex. All the femora bear a small subventral hair near 

 the a])ex on both sides, and a minute lateral hair near the base on the outer 

 surface. There is on the hindf'emur also a minute ventral hair behind the subbasal 

 sinus. The mid- and hindtibiae bear at the ventral edge three hairs besides the 

 apical and subapical ones, and there are on the outer and inner sides one row of 

 bristles. There are no bristles on the ventral surfaces of the mid- and hindtarsi, 

 apart from apical bristles. The lateral bristles are short. The longest apical 

 bristles of the first hindtarsal segment reaches the middle of the second segment. 

 The fifth segment is broad. It bears five pairs of lateral bristles, the first pair 

 being strongly and the third less strongly dislocated towards the middle. The 

 measurements of the mid- and hindtarsi are as follows : — 



Modified Segments. — The eighth tergite is large and apparently • triangnlar. 

 It bears about fourteen bristles at the edge from the stigma backwards, and about 

 as many on the side. There is a single long bristle near the ventral margin behind 

 the middle. The process of the clasper (Plate XIV., fig. 8, r) is very short and 

 obtuse, while the finger is long and slender (k), bearing some minute hairs at tlio 

 edge, as shown iu the figure. The two bristles at the junction of the finger with 

 the clasper are long and placed some distance apart. The manubrium (m) is also 



* The single example of this species we possess is mounted as a microscopic slide, and is 

 consequently somewhat distorted in shape. 



