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  PROCEEDIXGS 
  OF 
  77/ 
  A' 
  XAriOXAI. 
  ^I^S^:^^f. 
  

  

  oblitiuoly 
  upward 
  from 
  the 
  lower 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  eye 
  toward 
  the 
  upper 
  pos- 
  

   terior 
  liiuit 
  of 
  the 
  lateral 
  lobes 
  of 
  the 
  prozoua. 
  usually 
  luirrowing 
  as 
  it 
  

   goes. 
  

  

  29. 
  PHILOCLEON, 
  new 
  genus. 
  

  

  ( 
  J'/AoH.lc'^^u'r. 
  ;» 
  ibaraotev 
  in 
  Aristophanes 
  ''Wasps," 
  who 
  ends 
  the 
  play 
  iu 
  a 
  leapiugj 
  

  

  dance.''! 
  

  

  Body 
  elosely 
  resembling 
  that 
  of 
  Todisma. 
  compressed 
  cylindrical, 
  

   not 
  very 
  slender, 
  rather 
  thinly 
  pilose 
  throughout 
  with 
  rather 
  long 
  deli- 
  

   cate 
  hairs. 
  Head 
  moderatelj* 
  large, 
  feebly 
  prominent, 
  the 
  genae 
  uot 
  

   tumescent, 
  the 
  vertex 
  well 
  arched 
  but 
  only 
  slightly 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  

   proiuitum; 
  fastigium 
  sulcate 
  and 
  deolivent. 
  passing 
  insensibly 
  into 
  the 
  

   straight 
  and 
  little 
  prominent 
  frontal 
  costa, 
  the 
  taee 
  retreating 
  but 
  little; 
  

   eyes 
  rather 
  widely 
  separated, 
  moderate 
  in 
  si/.e. 
  rather 
  prominent, 
  broad 
  

   oval, 
  the 
  front 
  margin 
  subtruncate 
  ^female) 
  or 
  feebly 
  convex 
  (^male\ 
  luit 
  

   more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  again 
  as 
  broad, 
  produced 
  neither 
  above 
  nor 
  

   below: 
  antennae 
  slender, 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  (male) 
  or 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  (female) 
  

   the 
  head 
  and 
  pronotum 
  together. 
  Pronotum 
  short, 
  compressed 
  cylin- 
  

   drical, 
  with 
  no 
  trace 
  of 
  lateral 
  carinae 
  and 
  very 
  feeble 
  median 
  carina, 
  

   both 
  front 
  and 
  hind 
  margins 
  truncate: 
  pro/ona 
  sparsely 
  and 
  feebly, 
  

   metazona 
  more 
  elosely 
  but 
  not 
  densely 
  punctate, 
  the 
  transverse 
  sulci 
  

   moderate, 
  rrosternal 
  spine 
  short, 
  corical: 
  meso- 
  and 
  metastethia 
  

   together 
  nuich 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  the 
  latter 
  narrowing 
  

   rapidly 
  behind, 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  portion 
  behind 
  the 
  lobes 
  is 
  only 
  (male) 
  or 
  

   scarcely 
  more 
  than 
  (female' 
  half 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  metasthethium: 
  inter- 
  

   space 
  between 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  longer 
  than 
  broad 
  i^male) 
  or 
  sub- 
  

   quadrate 
  (female), 
  the 
  metasternal 
  lobes 
  attiugeut 
  or 
  subattiugeut 
  

   (male'^ 
  or 
  approximate, 
  the 
  interspace 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   ^female^. 
  Tegmiua 
  wanting. 
  Hind 
  femora 
  moderately 
  stout, 
  the 
  

   inferior 
  genicular 
  lobe 
  pallid 
  except 
  at 
  extreme 
  base, 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  with 
  

   nine 
  to 
  eleven 
  spines 
  iu 
  the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Sides 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  abdominal 
  

   segment 
  with 
  Ui^ 
  tympanum, 
  the 
  extremity 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  clavate. 
  the 
  sub- 
  

   genital 
  plate 
  with 
  no 
  apical 
  tubercle, 
  its 
  lateral 
  margins 
  abruptly 
  and 
  

   considerably 
  ampliate 
  at 
  the 
  base; 
  cerci 
  lamellate, 
  narrow 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   rather 
  broad 
  base 
  and 
  itunirved. 
  Abdomen 
  of 
  female 
  regularly 
  taper- 
  

   ing, 
  the 
  ovipositor 
  normally 
  exserted. 
  

  

  The 
  genus 
  is 
  represented 
  by 
  a 
  single 
  Mexican 
  species, 
  originally 
  

   describeil 
  as 
  FezoUttu- 
  nigrorittatus 
  Stal. 
  

  

  PHILOCLEON 
  NIGROVITTATUS. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XXVI. 
  figs. 
  8, 
  9.) 
  

  

  Pecoteitix 
  Hi^rorittatHs 
  Stal, 
  Bih. 
  K. 
  Sv. 
  Vet.-Akad. 
  Haudl.. 
  III. 
  No. 
  14 
  vlJ^T5>. 
  

  

  p. 
  32: 
  ibid. 
  V. 
  No. 
  9 
  (1878). 
  p. 
  lo. 
  

   Pt'oWiiJ 
  apterns 
  RrcxkrI. 
  MS. 
  

  

  Flavo-testaceous, 
  heavily 
  variegated 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  red. 
  pilose. 
  

   Head 
  fusco-olivaceous, 
  darker 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  above 
  

  

  ' 
  '' 
  For 
  now 
  in 
  these 
  sinewy 
  joints 
  of 
  ours 
  

   The 
  cup-like 
  socket 
  is 
  twirled 
  about." 
  

  

  I 
  

  

  