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of the 3rd, are pieeoiis. Rostrum; 1st and 2ud joints yellowisli ; 

 3rd and 4tb, and sometimes the apical half of the 2nd, piceous, or 

 dark pitchy. 



Thorax. — Fronotum ; sides almost straight, hinder angles very 

 slightly raised ; the posterior margin pale yellowish-white, somewhat 

 depressed; disk with two callosities behind the collar; a short cen- 

 tral line, and one on each side, in a line with the eyes, terminating 

 behind the callosities, pale yellow. Scutelhim witli a pale yellow 

 central line and a brown streak on either side the apical portion 

 sometimes uniting and leaving only the apex pale. Elytra of the 

 (^ longer than the abdomen ; Claws ; inner margin brown, extreme 

 apex black ; disk brown, leaving the sides pale ; Corium ; anterior 

 margin spotted with brown, at its junction with the cuueus piceous ; 

 1st nerve at the base on the inside, at the apex on the outside, a line next 

 the claval suture, and the apical portion between the 1st nerve and 

 the claval suture, pitchy-brown ; immediately below this and between 

 the 1st nerve and the anterior margin is a large pale triangle, having 

 its base on the base of thecuneus; ttwY'^^s reddish-brown or red- 

 dish-yellow, darkest at the apex ; the base with a pale triangle, its 

 apex on the inner margin terminated by a brown spot, and forjning, 

 with the triangle on the corium, a rhomboidal patch ; Menihrane 

 hyaline, slightly iridescent ; the inner margin, to a little beyond a 

 line with the tip of the cuneus, piceous ; the inner cell, a triangular 

 spot underneath it to the tip of the cuneiis, a short curved streak, 

 and a triangular patch next the apex of the anterior margin, and 

 numerous irregular spots, dark gray ; generally the central portion 

 below the cell is more or less clear ; cell-nerves reddish. Uterninn : 

 Prosternum ; xyphiis pale ; sides white or yellowish-white, with a 

 narrow streak near the outer margin, and the angles, broadly red ; Me- 

 sosternum brown or reddish, sides broadly white or yellowish-white ; 

 Metastermtm ; sides brown or reddish, with a white or yellowish-white 

 band nearly in the middh^. Legs; coxce brown or reddisli, with a 

 white or yellowish-vi'liite band in the middle ; apex pale ; fulcra 

 yellowish-white, with a brown or reddish spot on the upperside ; 

 thighs yellowish ; 1st and 2nd pairs thicldy covered with more or 

 less confluent, brown spots ; ord pair dark brown or reddish- 

 brown, thickly and iri-egularly covered with small Avhite spots, and 

 with 2 larger, somewhat triangular ones, on the upperside forming 

 half bands ; exti'cnie apex pale yellowisli-whitc ; tihi(c yellowish ; 1st 

 ajad 2nd pairs at the base reddish-brown, 1st pair at tlie apex broadly 



