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gently sulcate ; frontal costa just failing to reach the clypeus, subequal 

 but faintly narrowed above, about as broad as the interspace between 

 the eyes, scarcely sulcate at the ocellus, biseriately punctate above; 

 eyes moderate, a very little prominent in the male, very much longer 

 than the infraocular portion of the gense, particularly in the male; 

 antennae castaneous, luteous toward the base, about three-fifths (cj*) or 

 about half (?) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum subequal, tes- 

 taceous or luteo-testaceous, sometimes faintly dotted with fuscous, 

 below the postocular band flavo-testaceous, the disk feebly convex, 

 passing by a slight angulation into the vertical lateral lobes; median 

 carina distinct, percurrent, equal, sometimes fuscous ; front margin 

 very feebly convex, hind margin subtruncate but with the feeblest 

 possible angulation, often rounded in the male; prozona longitudinal, 

 a half (cJ') or a third (9 ) longer than the finely and densely punctate 

 metazona. Prosternal spine moderate, feebly conical, very blunt, 

 erect; interspace between metasternal lobes longitudinally subquad- 

 rate (d^) or transverse (?), the metasternal lobes attingent (cf) or 

 approximate (9). Tegmina a little shorter than the pronotum, 

 attingent or subattingent, broad oval, scarcely angulated apically, tes- 

 taceous or luteo-testaceous, the greater jiortion or all but the anal field 

 occasionally heavily infuscated. Fore and middle femora slightly 

 tumid in the male, luteo-testaceous, often somewhat infuscated ; hind 

 femora testaceous, the outer face often infuscated especially above, but 

 without fasciation, the genicular arc marked with a black line, beneath 

 more or less luteous; hind tibiae very pale glaucous or luteo-glaucous, 

 the spines black except at base, short, xo-12 in number in the outer 

 series. Extremity of male abdomen a little clavate, a little recurved, 

 the supraanal plate hastate, very acutangulate, plane or nearly plane 

 but feebly tectiform, the median carina distinct, percurrent between 

 shar|)ly defined ridges; fiircula consisting of a ])air of minute pointed 

 denticulations or projections on either side of the base of the median 

 sulcus, no longer than the last dorsal segment; cerci slender, as broad 

 at base as the frontal costa, tapering to two-thirds that width in the 

 middle, then enlarging somewhat to form a long oval lobe, bluntly 

 rounded apically and sulcate exteriorly, the whole gently incurved and 

 almost reaching the tip of the supraanal plate; subgenital plate rather 

 small, almost as broad as long, a little tumid and apically very bluntly 

 conical, the margins, as seen from above, forming a strongly rounded 

 curve. 



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