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circle, the contour being slightly irregular because of a 

 small, medial, angled projection, and a shallow almost im- 

 perceptible concavity behind the slight but distinct, ob- 

 tuse, anterior angles; four hairs between the medial fron- 

 tal angle and the latero- anterior angle of which the last 

 hair is the longest, a very short hair in the anterior angle 

 and a hair just in front of the projecting palpus tip; four 

 hairs, of which one is long, in the lateral angle in front of 

 the ocular emargination ; the eye large with a slight emar- 

 gination, the front half projecting further than the poste- 

 rior half: the hairs of the ocular fringe larger than usual, 

 the fringe extending but slightly on the margin of the 

 broad temporal region : temporal margin with three long 

 hairs and several short ones; occipital margin concave, 

 bare. Color of head pale golden brown, with small black 

 ocular blotches and narrow black border on outer tempo- 

 ral and occipital margins; indistinct narrow brown occip- 

 ital bands, the black occipital margin expanded at their 

 bases. 



Prothorax with a spine and long hair in produced lat- 

 eral angles, and a number of long hairs in obtuse latero- 

 posterior angles; the posterior margin seems to be bare; 

 golden brown with small latero -anterior dark brown 

 blotches and very narrow dark brown border between 

 lateral and latero-posterior angles. Metathorax showing 

 no marginal constriction at line of union of meso- and 

 metathorax; sides bare; produced posterior angles with 

 two long hairs and two stout spines; posterior margin 

 straight, bare; whitish, with narrow dark brown to black 

 lateral border expanded slightly in anterior angles. Legs 

 concolorous with body with very narrow dark brown dor- 

 sal margins of femora. 



Abdomen elongate with long hairs in posterior angle of 

 segments, and short hairs along lateral margins; a nar- 



