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circular knob, and set with hairs which are not as long as is usual. 

 The palpi in the male (fig. 41, 3) are three-jointed, the basal 

 joint only slightly longer than the two terminal ones together; 

 the fan-like tufts toward the tip brownish black in color. The 

 antenna of the male is plumose, color brown, with the usual cup- 

 shaped segments and circle of fine hair. In the female the an- 

 tenna is shorter than the beak and composed of twelve short seg- 

 ments. 



Figure 57. 



Ciilex discolor: i, female adult; 2, its palpus; 3, 

 claws of the male: all enlarged. (Original.) 



anterior; 4, median and 5, posterior 



The thorax is dark brown with the dorsum irregularly striped 

 with yellow scales. The femora with mixed black and yellow 

 scales above, wholly yellow beneath, the anterior and posterior 

 ones with a pale oblique band near the apex, almost obsolete in 

 some specimens; mid femora usually without a band and when 

 present very inconspicuous. The posterior part of the anterior 



