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dark spots, frequently coalescing into indistinctly defined bands. The 
hind femora stout and depressed, the lower carina very strong, color 
about as in body, with three broad, oblique, dark bands in the superior 
field and with small dark spots along the extended inferior carina; the 
inner face commonly all, rarely nearly all, dark. coral-red, very bright 
in life; hind tibiae bright coral-red, the outer face with a variable pale 
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AANGCE 2 PUIPPISCUS ZAP OTECUS 
. Fig. 6. Range of Hippiscus sapotecus 
or whitish area at base; hind tarsi red above and yellow below. Disk 
of the vertex declivent, roughly pentagonal and anteriorly extended 
but blunt at apex; lateral carina distinct but not strong; median carina 
beginning at a point opposite the anterior edge of the eyes, with some- 
times tuberculations anterior to this, and extending back to front of 
pronotum, in some with faintly indicated supplementary carina parallel 
to it behind the disk; eyes maculate, brownish with yellowish streaks ; 
frontal costa strong, sulcate between the antennae, and not widely 
separated below ; antennae long, considerably longer than the head and 
