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sulcate throughout at least in the female and rather deeply below the 

 ocellus, very feebly and sparsely punctate; eyes of moderate size, 

 moderately prominent especially in the male, not at all elongate, but as 

 long (male) or almost as long (female) as the infraocular portion of the 

 genae; antennae yellowish brown, paler below, darkest at tip, greenish 

 toward the base, almost as long (male) or three-fourths as long (female) 

 as the hind femora. Pronotuin subequal, faintly constricted inesially 

 in the male, and faintly (male) or slightly (female) expanding on the 

 metazoua, dark olivaceous green, the lateral lobes bright greenish yel- 

 low below, with the principal sulcus marked in black and terminating 

 below in a small black spot; above with a broad piceous postocular 

 band which traverses the head and pronotum, expanding posteriorly 

 on the nietazona and continued interruptedly on the abdomen as a 

 series of dark .trans verse streaks at the base of the segments; disk of 

 pronotum strongly convex, passing insensibly into the vertical lateral 

 lobes; median carina feeble, dull, percurrent, equal; front margin 

 faintly convex with a minute mesial emargination; hind margin sub- 

 truncate with a broad but very feeble emargination; prozona longitu- 

 dinal (male) or quadrate (female), nearly twice as long as the faintly 

 punctate or smooth metazona. Prosternal spine short, blunt, conical; 

 interspace between mesosterual lobes somewhat less than half as broad 

 again as long (male) or nearly twice as broad as long, about as broad 

 as the lobes (female), the metasternal lobes approximate (male) or 

 almost as distant as the mesosternal (female); prosternum dusky, the 

 spin e tipped with brown, the rest of the sternum greenish yellow. Teg- 

 rnina wanting. Fore and middle femora very tumid in the male, dis- 

 tinctly shorter than in the female; hind femora rather slender, 

 compressed, yellowish grass green, broadly but very obscurely bifas- 

 ciate with dark olivaceous green, the under surface and lower half of 

 inner surface coral red, the geniculation black; hind tibiae green, the 

 spines black nearly to their base, eight to eleven, usually nine to ten, 

 in number in the outer series. Abdomen hardly (male) or distinctly 

 (female) compressed, with a distinct though dull median cariua, dark 

 olivaceous green (female) or as described below (male), the sides of the 

 first segments with a distinct tympanum, the extremity in the male a 

 little clavate, much recurved, the supraanal plate triangular with 

 acutangulate apex, the sides inesially contracted and but slightly ele- 

 vated, the median sulcus distinct, deep, percurrent between rather 

 stout walls; furcula consisting of a pair of approximate, very slender 

 and tapering, acuminate black spines, crossing the basal fifth or less of 

 the supraanal plate; cerci black, long, erect, externally tumid except at 

 the dimpled apex, not strongly compressed, tapering in the basal half 

 to two-thirds the basal breadth, beyond feebly expanding to a very 

 slight degree, apically rounded but inferiorly angulate, the whole a 

 little longer than the supraanal plate and straight, being neither arcu- 

 ate nor incurved; subgenital plate very short and broad, broadly 



