FAMILY V.-CEDIPODIN^. 



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terior margin of the pronotum obtusely rounded, apical 

 angle about a right angle; lateral carinse sub-distinct; disk 

 of the posterior lobe nearly flat. Wing-covers and wings 

 longer than the body. 



Nearly uniform dark fuscous, often ash-color sprinkled 

 over with fuscous dots, males sometimes almost black; 

 face paler, dotted over with black points; mouth whitish 



Fig. 81. — Arpbia tenebrosn, dark variety. Original. 



or pale; outer joints of the palpi usually whitish or pale; 

 pronotum above is sometimes paler, almost yellowish- 

 w^hite, or of a dull dirty-yellow or partially of this color, 

 usually dusky or brown. Elytra with paler spots, but 

 A^arying in depth, sometimes almost uniform brown. Wings 

 with the broad basal portion bright red, or orange-3'ellow ; 

 a broad black band around the outer margin, with a dark 

 sub-costal ray extending towards the base; the extreme tip 

 transparent, more or less clouded or spotted with fuscous. 



