PAIMLIONIXAE: TIIK GENUS IPIIICLIDES. 1253 



the depressed cylindrical chit), wlilcli is more tliaii tliree times as broad as tlie stalk, 

 not more than two and a half times lnn>:er tlian liroad, sutispatiilate, well rounded, 

 largest on tlie fourtli joint from tlie tip, tlie last two joints facing soniewliat outward 

 and forniini; a liroadlv rounded apex. I'alpi very minute, slender, reaching the middle 

 of the front of tlie eye, rather thinly fringed with very long, erect hairs. 



Prothoracic lobes obsolete. Patagia small, slightly arched, flat, the base circular, 

 bearing a posterior lobe, whose apex is scarcely narrower than its base, one-third as 

 broad as the base, very slightly curved outward, the tip bluntly pointed. 



Fore wings (41: 1) nearly twice as long as broad, the costal margin a very little 

 bowed, but rather flattened along the middle, the outer border scarcely concave, but 

 at the two extremities receding a little to round oil' the angle, the general direction at 

 an angle of li.")"^ with tlie general course of the costal mai'gin ; inner border straight. 

 First superior subcostal branch arising somewhat beyond tlie middle of tlie outer two- 

 thirds of the upper margin of the cell ; second scarcely more tlian half way from 

 hereto the apex of the cell; third at the apex; and fourth at a little more than two- 

 fifths way from the apex of the cell to the outer margin of the wing. Cell three- fifths 

 the length of the wing, and fully three and one-half times longer than broad. At the 

 origin of the fourth median hr.ancli tlie main vein is raised above the continuation of 

 its basal half by slightly more tlian the width of the last median interspace at its base. 

 Cross vein connecting median and submedian near the base directed straight down- 

 ward. 



Hind wings with the costal margin considerably and roundly expanded next the 

 base, beyond very slightly convex; outer margin very strongly crenulate, divided by 

 the tail at the tip of the upper median nervule into two portions ; the upper has a 

 general straight direction, at an angle of about 110° with the costal border, the angle 

 rounded ofi" like the creuulations ; the tail is exceedingly long, equal, slender, bluntly 

 rounded at tip. as long as the normal portion of the upper median nervule; the lower 

 portion is also straight and bent at right angles to it; just beyond the lowest median 

 nervule it is rounded ofl" and recedes abruptly, to the distance of an interspace and a 

 half, and then proceeds on its course ; the inner angle is rounded ofl" and the inner 

 border nearly straight. Subcostal nervure very strongly curved between the bases of 

 the first and second nervures ; vein closing the cell considerably shorter than the dis- 

 tance between the bases of the second and third median nervules. 



Fore tarsi slightly longer than the femora and more than a third longer than the 

 tibiae ; middle femora somewhat longer than the tarsi and more than a third longer 

 than the tibiae; hind femora scarcely shorter than the fore femora and flve-sixths the 

 length of the middle pair ; middle tarsi a little shorter than the front tarsi and about 

 four-fifths the length of the hinder pair. Femora fringed all over, excepting above, 

 with a thin, rather long brash of delicate hairs. Tibiae armed beneath on either side 

 with a row of distant, not very long but slender spines, the inner row forking into two, 

 directed toward either side of the base of the inner spur; above, on either side, with 

 similar single rows ; spurs rather short and slender, the inner scarcely longer. First 

 joint of tarsi scarcely equalling the three succeeding together, the second, third and 

 fifth about equal, the fourth a very little smaller, all armed beneath on either side 

 with a row of frequent, rather long and very slender spines, the apical ones of each 

 joint a little longer and stouter; aiiovewith much more infrequent and much slenderer, 

 smaller spines, vaguely arranged in four rows ; claws long and very slender, delicately 

 heeled at the extreme base below, a little compressed, straight, and equal until close 

 to the tip, which tajiers to a delicate point and is curved a little downward ; paronychia 

 and pulvilli wanting. 



Eighth abdominal segment of male produced mesially above to a very broad, de- 

 pressed, subquadrate, broadly truncate tooth, bearing centrally an equally long but 

 slender spine, bifid and only slightly deelivant at tip, the middle prong t'le longer. 

 Valves tumid, ovate, pretty regularly rounded, longer than broad, each bearing 

 within, subparallel to the outer margin, a denticulate ridge and a long, central spine, 

 directed towards its counterpart. • 



