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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol 
  xx. 
  

  

  pieeous 
  band; 
  vertex 
  somewhat 
  tumid, 
  barely 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  

   pronotum, 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  nearly 
  (male) 
  or 
  much 
  

   more 
  than 
  (female) 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  joint; 
  fastig- 
  

   iuni 
  distinctly 
  sulcate, 
  with 
  elevated 
  rounded 
  margins; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   fading 
  just 
  before 
  the 
  clypeus 
  at 
  least 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  slightly 
  narrowed 
  

   above, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  (or 
  barely 
  nar- 
  

   rower 
  in 
  the 
  female), 
  slightly 
  sulcate 
  excepting 
  above, 
  punctate 
  

   throughout; 
  eyes 
  of 
  moderate 
  size, 
  slightly 
  prominent 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   barely 
  longer 
  (male) 
  or 
  barely 
  shorter 
  (female) 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  antennae 
  rufous, 
  sometimes 
  a 
  little 
  infuscated 
  

   apically, 
  two-thirds 
  (male) 
  or 
  less 
  than 
  th'ree-fifths 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  hind 
  feinoia. 
  Pronotum 
  slightly 
  (male) 
  or 
  distinctly 
  (female) 
  

   enlarging 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  posteriorly, 
  the 
  disk 
  rounded 
  subtectiform, 
  

   passing 
  by 
  a 
  distinct 
  but 
  rounded 
  angle 
  into 
  the 
  gently 
  tumid 
  sub- 
  

   vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  often 
  with 
  feeble 
  subflavous 
  lateral 
  stripes 
  next 
  

   the 
  lateral 
  carinas, 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  prozona 
  

   occupied 
  by 
  a 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct 
  blackish 
  (sometimes 
  pieeous) 
  belt, 
  

   sometimes 
  followed 
  below 
  by 
  luteous 
  flecks; 
  median 
  carina 
  percurrent 
  

   but 
  less 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  metazona, 
  generally 
  sub- 
  

   obsolete 
  between 
  the 
  sulci 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  front 
  margin 
  faintly 
  convex, 
  

   hind 
  margin 
  very 
  broadly 
  obtusangulate, 
  sometimes 
  rotundato-obtus- 
  

   angulate; 
  x>i'Ozona 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  faintljMongitudinal 
  

   or 
  quadrate 
  (female), 
  fully 
  a 
  third 
  (male) 
  or 
  but 
  little 
  (female) 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  finely 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Prosternal 
  spine 
  moderately 
  long, 
  

   appressed 
  conical, 
  rather 
  blnutly 
  pointed, 
  a 
  little 
  retrorse; 
  interspace 
  

   between 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  from 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  to 
  twice 
  

   as 
  broad 
  with 
  divergent 
  sides 
  (male) 
  or 
  transverse 
  but 
  much 
  narrower 
  

   than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  subattingent 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   ai)proximate 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  ovate 
  lanceolate, 
  apically 
  acuminate, 
  

   overlapping, 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  brownish 
  fuscous, 
  

   generally 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  median 
  line 
  of 
  alternating 
  blackish 
  and 
  flavous 
  

   dots 
  or 
  dashes; 
  wings 
  pale 
  flavous, 
  sublinear, 
  aborted. 
  Fore 
  and 
  

   middle 
  femora 
  considerably 
  tumid 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  testaceous, 
  

   more 
  or 
  less 
  suffused 
  either 
  with 
  ferruginous 
  or 
  olivaceous, 
  the 
  outer 
  

   face 
  often 
  infuscated, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  half, 
  the 
  upper 
  face 
  and 
  

   especially 
  its 
  inner 
  half 
  bimaculate 
  with 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  which 
  some- 
  

   times 
  invades 
  the 
  flavo-testaceous 
  inner 
  face, 
  the 
  lower 
  face 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  rufous 
  or 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  pieeous; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  glau- 
  

   cous, 
  the 
  spines 
  pallid 
  at 
  base, 
  black 
  apically, 
  nine 
  to 
  twelve 
  (usually 
  

   ten) 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  al)domen 
  

   clavate 
  but 
  apically 
  conical, 
  much 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supraanal 
  plate 
  tri- 
  

   angular, 
  with 
  feebly 
  convex 
  sides, 
  bluntly 
  acutangulate 
  apex, 
  and 
  

   surface 
  nearly 
  plane 
  except 
  for 
  the 
  rather 
  high, 
  peicurrent 
  but 
  apic- 
  

   ally 
  obsolescent, 
  submedian 
  ridges 
  bounding 
  the 
  moderately 
  narrow 
  

   median 
  sulcus; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  small 
  and 
  short, 
  sub- 
  

   parallel, 
  tapering, 
  pointed 
  fingers 
  or 
  spines 
  lying 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  side 
  of 
  

  

  