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spotted next the upper edge of the eyes and in a postocular stripe, the 

 latter always present and subpiceous ; vertex gently tumid, slightly 

 elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes consid- 

 erably broader than (c?) or nearly twice as broad as (9) the basal 

 joint of the antennse; fastigium steeply declivent, sulcate throughout, 

 in the male deeply ; frontal costa just failing to reach the clypeus, a 

 little narrowed above the ocellus, but below fully as broad as the inter- 

 space between the eyes, shallowly sulcate at and just below the ocellus, 

 biseriately punctate above; eyes moderate, not prominent, much 

 longer than the infraocular portion of the gense ; antennse testaceo- 

 fuscous, becoming fuscous apically, a little more (cT) or a little less 

 (?) than two-thirds as long as the hind femora. Pronotum moder- 

 ately slender and rather short, slightly enlarging posteriorly, delicately 

 pilose, the piceous postocular stripe crossing the prozona, but other- 

 wise testaceous or luteo-testaceous, except that the disk may be more 

 or less ferruginous and marked laterally by fuscous stripes; the disk 

 is feebly convex with rounded but moderately distinct lateral carinse; 

 median carina percurrent but more distinct on the metazona than on 

 the prozona; front margin faintly convex, hind margin rounded 

 obtusangulate ; prozona longitudinally (c^) or transversely (?) quad- 

 rate, of the same length as the scarcely punctate metazona. Proster- 

 nal spine moderate, faintly retrorse, conico-cylindrical, blunt ; inter- 

 space between mesosternal lobes slightly longer than broad (c^) or 

 quadrate (?), the metasternal lobes approximate. Tegmina reaching 

 (S^) or failing to reach (?) the tip of the hind femora, rather slender, 

 tapering throughout, strongly rounded at apex, testaceous with fus- 

 cous veins and a few fuscous spots in median area; wings very faintly 

 infumate, the veins in the apical half infuscated. Fore and middle 

 femora somewhat tumid in the male ; hind femora rather slender, 

 luteo- or ferrugineo-testaceouE, the outer face almost wholly infuscated 

 the upper inner face sometimes twice spotted with fuscous, the genicu- 

 lar arc black ; hind tibise very pale glaucous, the spines black except- 

 ing at extreme base, 11-13 ^^ number in the outer series. Extremity 

 of male abdomen feebly clavate, upturned, the supraanal plate triangu- 

 lar with raised margins, the median sulcus percurrent, very distinct, 

 equal, its margins elevated like the lateral margins; furcula consisting 

 of a pair of slight triangular teeth, no longer than the last dorsal seg- 

 ment ; cerci stout and slightly bullate at base, immediately and rap- 

 idly tapering to a slender median cylinder, which expands apically 



