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joint of hind tarsi much longer than the others, third longer 

 than first, claws somevvhat beyond middle strorgly curved, 

 pseudarolia reaching thecurvature of the claws, rather broad, 

 entirely connected with the claws, their free inferior margin 

 incrassated, much thicker than the laminate part of the 

 pseudarolia, which is transversely striated. 



I am unable to find any described form allied to this 

 genus. 



Pliniella sacerdotula n. sp. — Sparingly clothed with 

 long white semirecumbent hairs; white, underneath slightly 

 tinted with greenish-yellow, head with the following black 

 markings: a lateral spöt to the neck extended downward in 

 the form of a vertical fascia emitting from its middle a 

 short vitta backward, a median vitta to vertex continued 

 through the fröns and clypeus, the narrow transverse impression 

 between vertex and fröns, a narrowly triangulär spöt on each 

 side between this impression and antennal base, a vitta on the 

 juga extended from base of antennae downward and joined 

 to an other vitta extended from the lower angle of the eyes 

 through the lora to apex of peristomium, these two vittae 

 forming together a narrowly Y-shaped figure, pronotum, 

 mesoscutum and scutellum velvety black, pronotum in its 

 apical half with two vittae near each other and a percurrent 

 sublateral vitta white, corium with an irregularly triangulär, 

 anteriorly sinuate dark fuscous spöt at the interor apical 

 angle, membrane dark smoky fuscous, somewhat paler in 

 the interiör half and with three rather large hyaline spöts, 

 an oblong irregular one at the basal margin, an oblong one 

 at the interiör margin, and a round one at apex, the basal 

 hyaline spöt extended from the exteriör basal angle of the 

 membrane to the inmost third of the interiör cell, but inter- 

 rupted by a vitta emitted from the fuscous area to the 

 margin of the cuneus betw^een the two outer thirds of the 

 interiör cell, and by a fuscous indentation bebind the exteriör 

 cell, the incrassated basal part of the anal vein fuscous; 

 antennae white, first joint, apical fourth of second, and apex 

 of third black (fourth lacking); rostrum and legs white, 

 slightly tinted with yellowish. Head a little more than half 

 the length of pronotum, antennae linear, second joint about 



