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vaceo-testaceous variably but generally considerably infus- 

 cated, above dark fuscous, separated by a testaceous stripe 

 from the broad piceous post-ocular band; vertex gently 

 tumid, feebly elevated above the pronotum, the interspace 

 between the eyes half as broad again (male) or twice as broad 

 (female) as the first antennal joint ; eyes moderately 

 large and prominent; antenna rufo-testaceous, .scarcely 

 shorter than (male), or nearly two-thirds as long as (fe- 

 male) the hind femora. Pronotum sub-equal, the sides with 



Fig. 113. — MelanopluA Blatcbleyi, female. Original. Fig. 114.— Me/a nop/us 



Blatcblevi, tip of male 

 abdomen Original. 



a broad piceous post-ocular band confined to the prozona 

 in the male, the same being wholly obsolete, obscure, or 

 confined to the upper limits of the lateral lobes in the female; 

 disk very broadly convex, passing by a distinct but blunt 

 angulation forming feeble lateral carina into the inferiorly 

 vertical lateral lobes; median carina distinct but not very 

 sharp on the metazona. Prosternal spine long, appressed 

 cylindrical, blunt retrorse. Tegmina abbreviate, a little 

 longer than the pronotum, over lapping, very broad just 

 beyondthe base and rapidly narrowing, short sublanceolate. 

 the costal margin roundly angulate, apically sub-acuminate, 

 brownish-fuscous the dorsal field often cinereous, the lateral 

 often feebly flecked with fuscous. Fore and middle femora 

 very tumid in the male; hind femora testaceous or flavo- 

 testaceous, heavily and broadly but sometimes confusedly 

 bifasciate with blackish-fuscous, the geniculation blackish, 

 the inferior face pale flavous, pallid apically; hind tibia red. 



