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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  tumid 
  (female), 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus 
  rather 
  narrowly 
  sulcate, 
  deeper 
  

   in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  iu 
  the 
  female, 
  percurrent, 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  rather 
  small, 
  

   not 
  prominent, 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  intraocular 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  genae; 
  anten- 
  

   nae 
  ferruginous, 
  growing 
  lutescent 
  toward 
  the 
  base, 
  dusky 
  toward 
  the 
  

   tip, 
  nearly 
  or 
  quite 
  as 
  long 
  (male) 
  or 
  about 
  two 
  thirds 
  as 
  long 
  (female) 
  

   as 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  Pronotuni 
  subequal, 
  feebly 
  expanding 
  posteriorly 
  

   especially 
  iu 
  the 
  female, 
  the 
  disk 
  plano-convex, 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  well- 
  

   rounded 
  but 
  distinct 
  shoulder 
  from 
  the 
  vertical 
  lateral 
  lobes, 
  brownish 
  

   fuscous, 
  sometimes 
  fusco-testaceous 
  and 
  then 
  generally 
  i)unctate 
  with 
  

   ferruginous, 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  piceous 
  

   band 
  crossing 
  the 
  prozona 
  and 
  sometimes 
  continued 
  as 
  a 
  feeble 
  dusky 
  

   cloud 
  on 
  the 
  metazona; 
  front 
  border 
  truncate, 
  hind 
  border 
  broadly 
  

   obtusangulate, 
  the 
  angle 
  rounded; 
  median 
  carina 
  distinct 
  only 
  on 
  the 
  

   metazona 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  prozona, 
  elsewhere 
  obsolete 
  or 
  sub- 
  

   obsolete; 
  prozona 
  feebly 
  longitudinal 
  (male) 
  or 
  feeblj' 
  transverse 
  

   (female), 
  a 
  very 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  minutely 
  rugulose 
  metazona. 
  

   Prosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  stout, 
  blunt, 
  conical, 
  erect; 
  interspace 
  between 
  

   mesosternal 
  lobes 
  nearly 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad 
  (male) 
  or 
  consid- 
  

   erably 
  transverse 
  but 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  lobes 
  (female). 
  Tegmina 
  either 
  

   abbreviated, 
  being 
  one 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  to 
  two 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  pronotuni 
  and 
  not 
  nearly 
  reaching 
  the 
  tips 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   tapering 
  considerably 
  beyond 
  the 
  basal 
  expansion, 
  sublanceolate 
  and 
  

   bluntly 
  subacuminate 
  {M.f. 
  curtus); 
  or 
  far 
  surpassing 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   broad 
  and 
  subequal, 
  very 
  feebly 
  tapering 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  and 
  well 
  

   rounded 
  at 
  tip 
  (il/. 
  /. 
  rolaticiis, 
  Plate 
  I, 
  fig. 
  c), 
  wholly 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  

   or 
  cinereo-fuscous, 
  occasionally 
  maculate 
  to 
  a 
  greater 
  or 
  less 
  degree, 
  but 
  

   generally 
  slightly 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  area, 
  the 
  anal 
  area 
  sometimes 
  more 
  

   cinereous 
  than 
  the 
  rest, 
  especially 
  apically; 
  wings 
  in 
  both 
  forms 
  hyaline 
  

   with 
  a 
  scarcely 
  perceptible 
  yellowish 
  tint, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  densely 
  but 
  

   always 
  feebly 
  infnmated 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  the 
  veins 
  and 
  cross 
  veins 
  of 
  the 
  

   apical 
  half 
  blackish 
  fuscous. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  relatively 
  longer 
  in 
  the 
  

   female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  dull 
  luteo-testaceous, 
  black 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  at 
  

   extreme 
  base 
  and 
  bifasciate 
  with 
  black 
  or 
  blackish 
  fuscous 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   broadly 
  and 
  obliquely, 
  rarely 
  transversely, 
  the 
  whole 
  often 
  confused 
  

   and 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  blended 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  face; 
  beneath 
  pale 
  or 
  dull 
  red- 
  

   dish; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  red, 
  usually 
  growing 
  paler 
  toward 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  some- 
  

   times 
  almost 
  wholly 
  pale 
  greenish 
  luteous, 
  feebly 
  reddening 
  apically, 
  

   the 
  base 
  generally 
  pale 
  or 
  at 
  least 
  paler, 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  fuscous 
  patellar 
  

   spot, 
  the 
  spines 
  black 
  except 
  at 
  extreme 
  base, 
  nine 
  to 
  twelve, 
  generally 
  

   eleven, 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Extremity 
  of 
  male 
  abdomen 
  

   strongly 
  clavate, 
  well 
  upturned, 
  the 
  supraaual 
  plate 
  long 
  triangular 
  

   with 
  well 
  rounded 
  acutangulate 
  apex, 
  the 
  apical 
  half 
  depressed 
  to 
  a 
  

   slightly 
  lower 
  plane, 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  equal, 
  deep, 
  median 
  sulcus, 
  bounded 
  

   by 
  high 
  and 
  sharp 
  walls 
  in 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  half; 
  furcula 
  

   consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  minute, 
  parallel, 
  distant, 
  tubercular 
  teeth, 
  twice 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  broad, 
  resting 
  outside 
  the 
  ridges 
  of 
  the 
  supraaual 
  plate; 
  

   cerci 
  simple, 
  straight, 
  and 
  subequal, 
  being 
  contracted 
  a 
  little 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  