6S Morton, Leptocerus excisus n. sp. from Westeru Fiuland. 6. II. 1904. 



slightly deflexed, unitecl, with a deep excision between them, 

 each of the two divisions thus formed being produced into a 

 blunt point. Upper penis cover large and prominent, apparently 

 concave above, strongly upturned and ending in a sharp point 

 \vhen viewed from the side Penis large and rounded at apex 

 in the lateral view, bifid when seen from above. The last 

 ventral segment, viewed from beneath, is shallowly excised. 

 The inferior appendages are \videly separated when viewed 



li. 



ExplaDation of tigures 



H. Penis from side. 



4. Penis from above. 



.0. Apex of abdomen of $ from side. 



from beneath, and their basal portion is large and rounded; from 

 this base proceeds a long tapering, forcipate branch, acute at 

 the apex. Seen from the side, these appendages stretch along 

 the lateral margin of the apex of the abdomen, a small paler 

 portion of each appendage being separated by a vague suture; 

 this portion is somewhat flattened and inturned and from near 

 its base springs a small yellowish finger shaped branch usually 

 miich incLirved and probably not ahvays visible from the side 

 in dry examples. 



In the $, the abdomen is greenish. The last dorsal seg- 



