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.37 mm.; pale brown, with small black markings on head 

 and thorax, and dark brown markings on abdomen. 



Head, length .36 mm., width .53 mm.; palpi not pro- 

 jecting, antennas slightly projecting; front bare; lateral 

 margin in front of ocular depression with four hairs of 

 which one is long; eye with slight but distinct emargina- 

 tion; ocular fringe distinct; temporal margin with four 

 long hairs, of which one, the third, is very long, and a 

 few short hairs; occipital margin concave; pale yellowish 

 brown, with small dark brown to black ocular blotches, 

 and narrow occipital border expanded at bases of the 

 very faint occipital bands. 



Prothorax, with spine and hair on lateral angles, and 

 close to the angle on latero-posterior border a hair; in 

 latero-posterior angles a single hair, and along rounded 

 posterior margin two very short hairs and two longer ones; 

 without dark markings, although the lateral angles and 

 borders appear darker because of sternal markings show- 

 ing through ; also the median sternal blotch faintly show- 

 ing through. Metathorax with angular emargination on 

 sides showing line of fusion of meso- and metathorax; 

 anterior angles rounded; sides bare; posterior angles 

 with a spine and two strong hairs; anterior angles bor- 

 dered with black; lateral margins unevenly bordered 

 with brown in which there is on each side a short linear 

 black mark cutting off the region of the posterior angles. 

 Sternal markings consisting of a median blotch on pro- 

 thorax, a paler and more indistinct large median blotch 

 on metathorax, and dark intercoxal lines. Legs concolor- 

 ous with body; all femora thickened. 



Abdomen, nowhere strongly colored or marked; an 

 uncolored longitudinal line running parallel with each 

 lateral margin on segments 1-8; outside of this line on 

 each segment an ill-defined fuscous blotch showing as its 



