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MYUAID^i:. 



251. Mydas carmichaeli, Bran. 



Mydas cannickaeli, Bnmetti, Rec. Iiid. Miis. ix, p. 266 (1913). 



(S $ . Head black, frons slightly wider than one-third of the 

 head, somewhat wrinkled, witli a moderate amount ot" blat-kish- 

 bi'owu pubescence ; a small tut't of greyish hairs on each side of 

 Ihe moutli-opening. Proboscis rather less than the height of the 

 liead, dark brown ; palpi slender, black, reaching as far forward 

 as the vertical line drawn through the antennal prominence, which 

 latter is small and black. Antennae normal, black, bare, about as 

 long as from the vertex to the tip of the proboscis. Occiput 

 black, shortly pubescent ; a little grey tomentum behind the eye- 

 liorder. Thorax wholly dull velvet-black, with very short 

 sparse black pubescence, Avhich is a little longer below the wings. 



Fig. 2.3. — 'Ml/das cariuicliaeU, Brun., S ■ 



Abdomen shining black, with a slight indigo-blue tinge and very 

 short pubescence ; in 6 subcylindrical, as long as head and thorax 

 together and barely as wide; in $ a little broader and loiger and 

 much more bulky. The S genitalia consist of a hollow triangular 

 piece, hairy above, with a deep keel, a pair of dark re(hlish-brown, 

 nearly bare, moderately long, narrow, finger-like claspers (only 

 one joint being visible, the organs being somewhat witlidrawn), 

 and a curved ventral plate, with black pubescence on its lower 

 side. The $ genitalia appear to consist of two telescopic cylin- 

 drical shells, tiie inner one ending in two small (probably) retractile 

 lamellae. Xfr/s wholly black; coxa3 with a little short black 

 pubescence ; hind femora with two rows of spines on underside, 

 an inner one of about a dozen and an outer one of a few only. 

 Hind tibiae with a row of reddish spines on underside (not at all 

 conspicuous), and 5 or 6 such spines at the tip on the underside 

 only ; fore tibiae with some inconspicuous spines at tip, which 

 appear to be only the terminal ones of a row on the underside 

 nearly hidden by the thick though short black pubescence which 

 clothes all the tibiae ; a row of spines, including the apical ones, is 

 .•ipparently present on the middle tibiae also, though certainly 



