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Ocelli larger than facets of eyes, clouded with dark purphsh pigmen- 

 tation; margined inwardly with very dark purplish crescents. Mouth 

 cone long and sharply pointed, constricted suddenly just beyond 

 maxillary palpi thence very slender to the tip, in undistended speci- 

 mens would surpass the posterior margin of pro thorax; maxillary 

 palpi of medium size, the first segment very short; labial palpi slender, 

 very nearly as long as the maxillary palpi; fu-st segment of labial 

 palpi fully four times as long as fu-st segment of maxillary palpi; 

 Second segment of maxillary palpi tipped with two long yellowish 

 hairs. Color of head dark brown, almost black at the sides. Relative 

 lengths of segments of antennae as follows : 



Segment one truncated cone-shaped; two urn-shaped; three to six 

 clavate; seven elliptical; seven and eight taper evenly from the middle 

 of seven to the tip of eight which is cone-shaped. Color: One dark 

 brown; two yellowish brown clouded with dark brown on sides near 

 the base; thi'ee light yellowish brown clouded with dark brown on the 

 apical third; four light brown at the base shading to dark brown at 

 the tip; five dark brown, the basal half slightly lighter; six, seven, 

 and eight dark brown. Spines on segments pale and inconspicuous. 

 Sense cones located as follows: One on inner and one on outer sides on 

 segments three to six. 



Pro thorax slightly longer than the head; width anteriorly five- 

 sixths the length, width through coxae one and two-tliirds the length. 

 All conspicuous spines on prothorax knobbed, arranged as follows: 

 One at each hind angle, one on the projection of the coxae, one mid- 

 lateral, one on each side on posterior margin halfway between spine at 

 hind angle and the meson, four spines on anterior margin arranged in 

 two pans, the lateral ones at the angles, the other pair standing 

 near the meson, one on each side. Dorsum of prothorax finely 

 areolate, hind margin broadly rounded. Mesothorax very nearly as 

 broad as prothorax tlu-ough the coxae, its front angle abrupt — almost 

 a right angle, sides slightly convex. Metathorax with sides gradually 

 converging to the abdomen to which it is broadly joined. Mesonotum 

 strongly transverse, transversely striate, bearing one conspicuous 

 knobbed spine at each lateral angle. Two pairs of very small 

 spines are also found, one spine of each pan- stands near the anterior 

 margin at about one-thu-d the distance from the lateral margin to the 

 meson, the spine of the second pair stands caudo-laterad of the spines 

 of the first pan-. Metanotal plate large, broader than long, finely 

 areolate — almost reticulate. Legs of moderate length, middle and 

 hind femora scarcely thickened, fore femora greatly enlarged, their 



