﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MKLAXOPLI—SC 
  UDDER. 
  245 
  

  

  vertex 
  gently 
  tumid, 
  but 
  little 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  prouotum, 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  again 
  (male) 
  or 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  

   (female) 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antenual 
  joint; 
  fastigium 
  moderately 
  decliveut, 
  

   rather 
  shallowly 
  (male) 
  or 
  scarcely 
  (female) 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  fading 
  

   before 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  subequal, 
  about 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   the 
  eyes, 
  scarcely 
  sulcate 
  (male) 
  or 
  feebly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  

   ocellus 
  (female), 
  punctate 
  throughout; 
  eyes 
  moderate 
  in 
  size, 
  not 
  very 
  

   prominent, 
  only 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  infraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  

   antennae 
  testaceous 
  or 
  rufo-testaceous, 
  more 
  than 
  two-thirds 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   about 
  one-half 
  (female) 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotum 
  distinctly 
  

   enlarging 
  from 
  in 
  front 
  backward 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  the 
  disk 
  

   broadly 
  convex, 
  subtectiform, 
  passing 
  by 
  an 
  abrupt 
  angle 
  forming 
  dis- 
  

   tinct 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  into 
  the 
  anteriorly 
  feebly 
  tumid 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  

   lobes, 
  tlie 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  faintly 
  marked 
  with 
  liavous 
  or 
  rufous, 
  followed 
  

   beneath 
  at 
  least 
  on 
  the 
  prozona 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  bordering 
  of 
  black, 
  occa- 
  

   sionally 
  extending, 
  but 
  generally 
  as 
  a 
  feeble 
  suffusion, 
  over 
  the 
  upper 
  

   half 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes; 
  median 
  carina 
  percurrent, 
  sharp 
  on 
  the 
  meta- 
  

   zona, 
  dull 
  but 
  distinct 
  on 
  the 
  prozona, 
  except 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  always 
  feebler 
  

   and 
  sometimes 
  subobsolete 
  between 
  the 
  sulci; 
  front 
  margin 
  truncate, 
  

   hind 
  margin 
  truncate 
  but 
  mesially 
  emarginate, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  female; 
  

   prozona 
  subequal 
  and 
  distinctly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  tapering 
  and 
  

   longitudinally 
  subquadrate 
  (female), 
  fully 
  (male) 
  or 
  less 
  than 
  (female) 
  

   half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  the 
  closely 
  and 
  heavily 
  punctate 
  metazona. 
  Pro- 
  

   sternal 
  spine 
  long, 
  slender, 
  erect, 
  conical 
  (male) 
  or 
  moderately 
  long, 
  

   stout, 
  conical, 
  rather 
  blunt, 
  erect 
  (female); 
  interspace 
  between 
  meso- 
  

   sternal 
  lobes 
  somewhat 
  variable, 
  being 
  from 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  to 
  fully 
  

   twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  subquadrate 
  either 
  longitudinally 
  or 
  

   transversely 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  dis- 
  

   tant, 
  lateral, 
  elliptical, 
  varying 
  from 
  hardly 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  long- 
  

   again 
  as 
  broad 
  to 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  apically 
  well 
  

   rounded, 
  brownisli 
  fuscous. 
  Fore 
  and 
  middle 
  femora 
  considerably 
  tumid 
  

   in 
  the 
  male; 
  hind 
  femora 
  rather 
  stout 
  but 
  pretty 
  long, 
  testaceous, 
  gener- 
  

   ally 
  with 
  feeble 
  remnants 
  of 
  bifasclation 
  with 
  fuscous, 
  especially 
  on 
  the 
  

   outer 
  face 
  and 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  inner 
  face, 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  with 
  

   the 
  inferior 
  face 
  sanguineous, 
  the 
  genicular 
  arc 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  bind 
  tibiae 
  paler 
  

   or 
  darker 
  glaucous, 
  sometimes 
  a 
  little 
  infuscated, 
  the 
  basal 
  third 
  some- 
  

   times 
  with 
  a 
  postbasal 
  liavous 
  annulation, 
  the 
  spines 
  pallid 
  on 
  basal, 
  

   black 
  on 
  apical 
  half, 
  nine 
  to 
  twelve 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  

   p]xtremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  clavate, 
  considerably 
  recurved, 
  the 
  supra- 
  

   anal 
  plate 
  triangular 
  with 
  rectangulate 
  apex 
  and 
  straight 
  sides, 
  the 
  

   surface 
  nearly 
  plane, 
  the 
  median 
  sulcus 
  occupying 
  at 
  base 
  a 
  large 
  flat 
  

   triangular 
  field 
  (represented 
  far 
  too 
  small 
  in 
  our 
  figure), 
  beyond 
  which 
  

   it 
  continues 
  to 
  the 
  tip 
  as 
  a 
  feeble 
  slit; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  j^air 
  of 
  

   approximate, 
  slight, 
  blunt 
  denticulations; 
  cerci 
  broad 
  at 
  base, 
  tapering 
  

   pretty 
  regularly 
  and 
  somewhat 
  rapidly, 
  the 
  apical 
  third 
  subequal 
  and 
  

   very 
  slender, 
  not 
  a 
  fourth 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  base, 
  a 
  little 
  twisted 
  and 
  

  

  