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postici (PL XII., fig. st trochanteribus claviformibus ; femoribus robustiB; tibiis 

 apicea versus interne serratis i evibus inetructis; alioqui anticis 



-imiles. 

 I a anteriores Bat magnae, ovales, -at prominentes, contingent) . 

 intermedia rotundataa, per carinam divi 



posterioret sal magnae, prominentes, late 3ubovaliter laminatse, fere con- 

 thmentes. 



Body obconic, convex. 



I hul ratber lai edingly produced in front, almost rostriform, sessile, and 



Btrongbj deflexed ; eyes large and very prominent ; antenna inserted verynear 



the eyi 



Antenna (PI. XII., fig. 7) eleven-jointed; 1 large and robust; 2 as large as the first, 

 abruptly truncate at the apex; 8 7 Blender, equal to eacb otber in size; 8 

 twice as shori a- the seventb; '.' like tb t; in ampulliform, large and 



incrassati ; 11 twice as large as the tenth, roundly incrassated at tie ba 

 and mucb contracted beyond the middle; the two last joints forming a Parti- 

 culate club. 



Maxillary palpi (PI. XII., fig. 5, s) small and very slender, four-jointed ; 1 long and 

 slender; 2 rather longer than tie first, slender and narrowly pyriform ; 3 as 

 long as the second, moderately incrassate, abruptly truncate at the apex; 4 

 very long and Blender, aciculate, slightly incrassate at I 



Labial palpi (PI. XII., tig. ii. m) rather large, three-jointed, moniliform, with the 

 apical joint largest, Bubtruncate at the apex, and furnished on the outer 

 extremity with a long incurved seta; the two basal joints oval and of equal 

 size. 



Ldbrv/m (PL XII., fig. 3) large, suhoblong, abruptly dilated at the base, slightly 

 emarginate in front, rounded on each side at the apex, and furnished with a 

 membranaceous appendage fringed with 



Mandibl s (PI. XII. , fig. 4, t) moderate, rather narrow, bidentate at the apex ; lamella 

 membranacea oval. Stipes moderate, produced into a long, slender, incurved 

 process behind the mandibles with a large acute tooth on the out r side of its b 



Muni!,/- (PI. XII. , tig. 5) large, robust, apparently trilobi ernal lobe short, 



slightly incurved ly pointed, forming part of the stipes ; intermediate 



lobe small and feeble, furnished with setae at the apex ; interior lobe long, 



rather slender, acutely hooked at the apex, and armed with three very acute 



th. Stiii. - large and robust. 



Mi nt a hi (PI. XII., tig. ii, j i moderate, nearly quadra 



Labium (PI. XII., fig. 6, k) moderate, Buboblong, Blightly dilated in front, and pro- 

 duced on each side into a long paraglossal process acutely pointed and slightly 

 divergent. 



Lingua (PL XII., fig. 6, 1) rather small, shorter than the palpi, and bifid at the a] 



Pronotum rather large, widest at the base with the binder angles acute and slightly 

 produced in the males, hut not produced in the females. 



ScuteUum modi roadly triangular. 



Elytra elongate, obliquely truncate at the apex. 



Wings moderate, lanci "late, with rather feeble neuration, fringed on both sides with 

 long, movable setae. 



Abdomen COD segments, of which the two apical are corneous, and 



membrai 



/'/ tliorai (PL XII., fig. 2, a- -mall and narrow; prosternum very >mall ; episterna 

 inconspicuous; epimera modi sing the coxa! ca hind: coxa! 



cavities large, oval, almost contingent, and partly open in front. 



Pectus with th tternum (PL XII., fig. 2, d) rather Lai ugly deflexed in 



front, broadly carinated, with the anterior extremity of the carina broadly 



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