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Antenna: length \"2b mm. in an example whose fore wings are ]"35 mm., 

 11- jointed, the club being solid, one ring joint and seven normal in funicle. Scape 

 narrowed on basal third and at its widest (1:3) near the apex, barely as long as the 

 first three normal funicular joints, nearly twice as long as the club (12 : 7) and of the 

 same breadth. Pedicel (8 : 3) slender basally, three-eighths of the scape. All 

 funicle joints slender, cylindrical, sub-equal (9, 8, 9, 9, 8, 8, 8) and the club in the same 

 scale 13. Average breadth 5, of the club 6. Joints 6 and 7 are distally more dis- 

 tinctly articulated. The sensoria are numerous, long and narrow, with very short 

 free points. 



Pig. 2. Thorax oiEupeJminus tarsatiis, $ (leff) and o (right) ; A, axillary scutum ; 

 T, tegula ; W^, fore wing ; W., , hind wing ; Prp., prepectus. 



Thorax : When flattened out the pronotum is a little concave posteriorly, but 

 deeply and broadly so in front. The spiracle lies in front of the lateral angle, and the 

 posterior row of bristles contains about 12. The pattern is fine and much raised, 

 with numerous regularly disposed short bristles. The prosternum is posteriorly so 

 broadly truncate as to be nearly triangular in outhne. Two longer central (1:1) 

 bristles lie nearly on the posterior edge with 21 (12 : 12) other stouter bristles over 

 the surface. Mesonotum a little flattened, the parapsidal furrows fading posteriorly, 

 but in a mounted example traceable to the suture and meeting the anterior edge of 

 the axilla before one-half. Axillae very narrowly separate (see fig. 2). "Whole 

 surface densely set with bristles, raised reticulate, the pattern finest in the mid lobe 

 and coarsest on the axillae. Prepectus large, with a bold but little raised pattern, 

 iound also on the episternite and large oblong epimeron. Below the episternite there 

 is a thin clear track in the chitin, reaching back below the epimeron, and meeting with 

 it posteriorly is a similar broad line from the inner angle of the prepectus. The 

 triangular area thus delimited bears about 30 bristles, and there are about as many 



