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of the frontal scutellum. The basal segments are short and 

 thick, the rest are filiform and segments six to nine are the long- 

 est ; the last segment of the palpi is longer than the first and 

 subacuminate. The pronotum projects more or less above 

 the head, very rarely truncate in front, sometimes strongly 

 compressed or foliaceous above, its posterior process nearly 

 always short and truncate or even excised at the extremity, 

 sometimes, however, extending to the middle of the posterior 

 tibia. The elytra and the wings are usually absent, exception- 

 ally developed. The sternomentum is strongly reflected 

 around the mouth and more or less sinuate anteriorly. The 

 femora are compressed and the carincTe in most of them have 

 lobes (or even spines or tubercles in exotic species), the 

 femoral and genicular teeth are little developed; the posterior 

 tibiae, little or not at all widened towards the end, have the 

 carinae armed with rather strong spines, more numerous on 

 the external carina where they are continued to the extremity; 

 the apical spurs are strong and the inferior external is sensibly 

 the smaller, the first segment of the posterior tarsi nearly as 

 long as the last, and obscurely furrowed above, the claws 

 dentate at the base. 



GEN. CHORIPHYLLUM, serv. 



Granulate. Face little oblique; antennae widely separated, 

 frontal scutellum above narrowed, lateral carina; above con- 

 verging. Vertex much wider than one of the eyes. Pronotum 

 large, strongly compressed, completely foliaceous, with radi- 

 ating veins, anteriorly extended above the head, posterior 

 process not passing the femora, or strongly extended beyond, 

 apex obliquely truncate. Elytra always absent. Anterior 

 femora narrow, distinctly longer than wide; carina; percurrent; 

 posterior femora above compressed, apical half serrulate; 

 genicular tooth acute; first article of the posterior tarsi distinctly 

 longer than the third. 



Choriphyllum, Serville, Hist. Nat. des Ins. Orth., 754 



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Choriph}llum, Fieber, Entom. Monogr. 



Hymenotes, Stal. 



