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than two cells. Side-pieces each with two bristles, nearly smooth towards the post- 

 scutellum, but laterally with four long complete transverse rugae, and others shorter, 

 incomplete, between ; propodeon narrow medianly, and declivous from the mid line 

 towards the sides, but without a keel. The slopes of the notum without pattern, 

 but crowded with minute pustules, descending to before the spiracle, where there is a 

 straight, longitudinal, internal, rod-like thickening of the sclerite, but no external 

 ridge or keel ; just outside this thickening, nearly at one-half, is the small spiracle, 

 with two bristles in front, and 3-4 in a flanking, longitudinal row, with 1-2 more 

 below. The whole surface of this area is reticulate, hardly raised. Sternopleurae : 

 presternite six-sided, very short and broad, \\'ith strong transverse pattern, bare ; 

 episternite helmet-shaped, with pattern of sternite ; two minute bristles. The 

 prepectora are broadly fused with a band which is not much wider laterally than on 

 the smooth mid area. The pattern is large and coarse, 3-4 cells occupying the length 

 and 10-12 the depth of the sclerite. The mesopleurae are very finely striate on their 

 entire length^ — the striae (about 40 deep) consisting of long drawn-out cells. 



Wings : Fore wings : two and one-third times as long as broad ; length, '6 mm. ; 

 breadth, -26 mm. ; marginal nearly tA\ice as long as the submarginal. The lattex 

 bears six single bristles, with an additional pair before the clear pustules ; the 

 marginal is fringed by 14 bristles, and there are 12 equally strong on the vein parallel 

 with the long axis of the latter, which bears besides numerous minute bristles ; two 

 bristles and four cells on the drop-Hke radius. Hind wings over three times as long 

 as broad ; length, -5 mm. ; breadth, -15 mm. ; about 20 fine short bristles along the 

 marginal. 



Legs : Fore-legs : coxae two-thirds as long as the femur, with coarse pattern 

 on outer surface, three stong bristles on the ventral two-fifths in a perpendicular row 

 and about a dozen minute ones at the same level behind ; Femur (5:2) half as long 

 again as the tibia, w^hich folds up for its whole length against a deep, bare apical- 

 ventral excavation in the former ; anteriorly a few short bristles on the basal third, 

 while above the groove the subdorsal surface is covered with bristles ; posteriorly, 

 two weak subapical median bristles and another stout subapical and ventral, with an 

 irregular ventral or subventral row (8-9) reaching to the base ; apical comb feebly 

 developed, three bristles near the long broadly-curved spur whose apex crosses the 

 tarsus at the ventral angle of the first joint ; the latter with a comb of nine thin 

 imequal spines, the lowermost being shorter. Midlegs : coxae (1:1) one-half the 

 length of the femur, with coarser pattern than the fore coxae and similar chaetotaxy, 

 bearing four stout bristles and about forty smaller ; femur (3:1) with distinct 

 pattern on both sides, the cells posteriorly subequal and large, anteriorly on the basal 

 half and ventrally to near the apex they are long drawn out and the surface is bare ; 

 the distal half to below the mid line bears about 40 bristles, 3-4 at the apex stronger 

 while there are 2 stout apical spines, the upper bent at the tip ; tibiae (4:1) with 

 four spines near the apex, the anterior surface covered thickly ^^'ith small bristles ; 

 the entire dorsal edge with a close set row of short spine-Hke bristles, of which a second 

 row, subdorsal, runs from the base to near the apex ; the thickly feathered spur is 

 one-third longer than the first tarsal joint. Hind legs : coxae (3 : 2) very large, 

 broad and compressed, practically as long as the femur and nearly bare, there being 

 only a few short bristles at the ventral angle ; femur (2:1) similar to the mid femur, 



