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lie genicular lobe, in length, however, shorter than that on the caudal 

 lobe; median femora and tibiae as in the cephalic limbs but shorter. 

 Caudal femora elongate, slightly more than twice the length of the 

 median, considerably inflated in the proximal half, cephalic ventral 

 margin unarmed, caudal margin with a number of spines, closely 



Fig. 7. — Diestrammena palpata n. sp. Lateral view of type. (X 2.) 



placed proximad, sparsely distributed distad; caudal tibiae slightly 

 longer than the femora, dorsal margins with thirty to thirty-fom- fixed 

 spines, dorsal spurs very large, the caudal as long as the metatarsus; 

 metatarsi about as long as the remaining tarsal joint. 



General color burnt umber, meso-dorsal region suffused with clove 

 brown. Eyes vandyke brown; antennae annulate much as D. longipes, 

 but the color is duller, the larger annulations narrower and the smaller 



