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ticulated almost all over, the hinder portion mucli the 

 broader and considerably arched, sometimes with a 

 longitudinal median cut. The hinder edge of the frons 

 is very distinctly marked, the division between the 

 vertex and provertex is less distinct, but still clear. 

 Kostrum with a tendency to be trifid. Rostral hairs 

 short and sharply curved. The palpi do not show from 

 the dorsal aspect, but when dissected they are found 

 to have the second joint much incrassated. Maxillae 

 deeply toothed with one large square, and three smaller 

 pointed teeth. There are not any lamellge, but the 

 lamellar hairs persist, and are short, spatulate, and 

 placed far forward. Pseudo-stigmata placed rather 

 far forward, small, and not projecting. Psendo-stig- 

 matic organs very sliort, with short peduncles, and short, 

 pyriform heads (the engraver has made these organs a 

 trifle too long in fig. 1). Interlamellar hairs short, 

 spatulate, often somewhat recurved. Tectopedia obso- 

 lete ; apodemata joined to the sternum. 



Legs of moderate length, thick, gradually dimi- 

 nishing in thickness from the femur onward ; regu- 

 larly reticulated all over, including even the tarsi. 

 Two front pairs of femora with short, comparatively 

 thin peduncles, turned nearly at right angles to the 

 rest of the joint. Genuals as long as the tibiae ; tarsi 

 nearly as long as the two last-named joints together; 

 slightly truncated at the distal end. There are two 

 or three thick spatulate hairs arranged in a whorl on 

 each of the three central joints of each leg, and a similar 

 hair near the proximal end of each of the femora of 

 the first two pairs, and one on each coxa of the third 

 pair. Tactile hairs rather small ; tarsi with fine hairs 

 as usual. 



Abdomen elliptical, rather long; the progaster 

 rounded, and projecting over the cephalothorax ; the 

 posterior end produced into a slight lobe, varying in 

 distinctness in different speci nens, and bearing two 

 spatulate hairs. The whole notogaster is divided by 

 ridges into large, very irregular reticulations, which 



