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APPENDIX. — FIJLGOEID.^. 



vertex short and narrow, a little widened anteriorly, the ajnces 

 ot" the lateral margins prominent ; face moderate}}' long and 

 narrow, gradually widening to clypetis, the lateral margins 

 strongly ridged ; clypeus shorter than face, centrally ridged ; 

 pronotum short but broad, centrally ridged, the lateral angles 

 distinctly spined ; inesonotum about as long as pronotum and 

 vertex together, tricarinate, the central carination straight, the 

 sublateral ones more or less curved ; abdomen short and broad ; 

 legs somewhat slender, posterior tibia^ not spined : tegmina and 

 wings hyaline ; tegmina only slightly more than twice as long as 

 broad, the apex subconically rounded, costal membrane large and 

 distinct, at its apex and beneath stigma is a somewhat rounded 

 cell, its inner margin connected by sinuate transverse veins to the 

 posterior margin near claval apex, three apical cells beyond stigma 

 and two cells caused by vein-bifurcation on apical margin ; wings 

 about as broad as but shorter than tegmina, two apical cells 

 caused by vein-bifurcation. 



This peculiar genus finds an allv in the Mexican Micri.via, 

 Fowl. 



3186. Paramicrixia diaphana, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) viii, p. 742 

 (1911). 



Body above bronzy black ; lateral margins of vertex testaceous ; 

 body beneath black ; apex of clypeus, rostrum, basal area of 

 abdomen, and the femora more or less ochraceous, tibiae piceous ; 

 lateral margins of face testaceous, a little greyish before clypeus ; 



Fig. 25. — Paramicrixia diaphana. 



tegmina and wings hyaline and unmarked, save by the dark 

 venation and the very narrow piceous margins, the margin _'at 

 the stigmatal area is slightly more pronounced. 



Length excl. tegm. 3; exp. tegm. 9 millim. 



JJah. Bengal {Brit. Mtis.). 



The British Museum possesses a single specimen of this 

 interesting species. 



