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divided, and with a distinct fleck; the narrow produced 

 temples with five long hairs of which the hindmost three 

 are very long; occipital margin with six hairs, the two 

 outer ones arising submarginally, no distinct head bands 

 or blotches; the occipital margin narrowly bordered with 

 black; on the under side of the head there are two 

 strongly chitinized, backward-projecting, pointed pro- 

 cesses arising from the labium (resembling those, but not 

 bipartite, of Ancistrona) ; these processes show through 

 above and give an appearance of faint occipital bands. 



Prothorax very large, as long as the head, and three- 

 fourths as broad, with strong, produced, obtuse, lateral 

 angles; posterior margin obtusely angled on the meta- 

 thorax; a strong spine and a long hair in each lateral 

 angle, and a not well filled series of weak hairs along 

 posterior margin ; the transverse chitin bar distinct, black- 

 ish brown, and the curving longitudinal chitin bars at its 

 ends distinct, blackish; no well defined blotches. Meta- 

 thorax with a few small spines along lateral margins and 

 two longish hairs in posterior angles; posterior margin 

 with marginal series of short hairs (like those of ab- 

 domen) ; regions of latero-posterior angles dark brown, 

 the color extending forward narrowly along the lateral 

 margins. Sternal markings composed of a small median 

 blotch on prothorax, with posterior produced point and 

 lateral linear processes; curving intercoxal lines on meso- 

 thorax and short straight ones on metathorax, with a 

 broad pale colored median blotch. Legs concolorous 

 with head and thorax, with coxae distinctly margined with 

 blackish brown; anterior coxae with blunt processes 

 about as long as but narrower than the coxae themselves. 



Abdomen more golden or yellowish brown than head 

 and thorax; very broadly elliptical; but slightly tur- 

 binated; with two or three rather short hairs in posterior 



