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the usual fover on each side of the median line, anteriorly. Anterior 
angles concealed under fringing hairs of eyes. Prosternum with a thin 
rounded median keel between the anterior coxe. Anterior legs: tibia and 
tarsus together equal in length to femur; tarsal joints equal, tarsal claw 
a little more than half as long as a tarsal joint; femora 3 mm. wide at 
the widest part, quite stout, 7.5 mm. long.; face of femur with heavy 
pile in tufts; tibia simple. 
Metathorax: Not visible, except scutellum, which is shorter than broad 
(5 to 6.5 mm.), length measured from prothoracie groove or indentation 
to apex, and breadth at groove; rugose, as usual. 
Hemielytra: Junction equal in length to length of scutellum; clavus 
punctate, corium reticulately veined, margin punctate becoming obsolete 
apically; reticulation rises from the vein parallel to the claval suture, 
which sweeps around parallel to the margin of the membrane; veins of 
membrane practically parallel, forming 13 narrow longitudinal cells, the 
first two and the last two shorter than the others, the rest of nearly equal 
length, all being cut off by a marginal vein which is a continuation of 
the claval suture. 
Middle legs: Claws .5 mm. long; third tarsal joint, .75 mm., second, 
.6 mm.; first, short, triangular. Tibia flattened, shorter than femur, which 
latter is grooved, with coarse pile on the edges of the groove to ecorres- 
pond with the pile on the tibia; mostly concealed in the groove of the 
joint; coxe large, rounded trapezoidal, trochanters large, one side rounded, 
side applied to femora flattened. 
Hind legs: Longest, tibia and femur of equal length; tibia flattened, 
angular, broad distally, with the usual long swimming hairs; exterior 
edge flattened, with a row of spines or stiff bristles on each angle; femur 
rounded, stouter than the tibia, with a shallow groove for the reception 
of the latter. Tarsi lost in type. 
Mesosternum: Short medially and converted into two large prominent 
coxal acetabule, produced laterally till they meet the second abdominal 
segment, and beyond. Metasternum narrow, set in fork of mesosternum 
and with large acetabule. 
Abdominal segments: Visible, 5, the first concealed, the second showing 
triangularly in the angle between the meso- and metasternum, disappear- 
ing in the posterior coxe; third, fourth, and fifth segments equally wide 
at connexivum, third and fourth narrowed at the keel, the former slightly 
narrower than the latter, fifth of equal width throughout, a little narrower 
than the sixth, which also is of equal width throughout; seventh two- 
thirds wider than the sixth, and covered at the middle by the genital 
plate, split into two lobes at the extremity; genital plate as long as wide, 
rounded at the distal end. The usual narrow paired strap-like, hairy 
respiratory appendages. 
Color: The usual olivaceous-brown of the family, lighter and darker in 
irregular patches (This may not be so in other specimens and no reliance 
