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Fig. 1. Daesia wicki в': head-plate 

 and mandibles, seen from upper side 



tinge, all the terga irregularly infuscated. Palpi with the distal part 

 of femur (some parts on its inner side excepted) and the tibia reddish- 

 brown; metatarsus and tarsus deeply reddish-brown, nearly black; 



all joints of palpi covered with fine 

 pale spots and clothed with long 

 pale hairs, intermixed with very 

 long fuscous bristles. First and 

 second pairs of legs pale yellow, 

 femur distally, tibia and metatarsus 

 at base very slightly infuscate; third 

 pair of legs with the femur and 

 tibia (below and distally excepted) 

 more infuscate; fourth pair of legs 

 with the femur and tibia deep red- 

 dish-brown, finely pale spotted; ba- 

 sal half of the metatarsus infuscate. 

 Head-plate and mandib- 

 les — covered with a clothing 

 of very short hairs and with partly 

 regularly disposed bristles; man- 

 dibles elongate; the upper fang slightly inclined outwards from its 

 base, distally almost straight and not curved downwards at apex, when 

 seen from the side, below with a minute basal tooth, the posterior 

 side of which is prolon- 

 ged posteriorly in the 

 form of a long low 

 ridge; the inner side of 

 the upper fang deeply 

 sulcate throughout its 

 length; the upper jaw 

 forms an angle of about 

 145° with the lower 

 surface of the upper 

 fang and is furnished 

 with a double row of 

 teeth, the outer row 

 being composed of se- 

 ven teeth; the first tooth Fig. 2. 

 of the upper jaw large, 

 conical, at base slender; 



the second and fifth very small; the third is the largest tooth of the jaw, 

 conical; the rest, three in number, forming proximal part of the dentition, 

 smaller, triangular; the inner row composed of four teeth; the first being 



Revue Russe d'Entom. XV. 1915. K" 3. 



Daesia wicki в"- upper and lower jaws, 

 seen from outer side. 



