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iient in the male, no longer (male) or distinctly shorter (female) than 

 the intraocular portion of the genae; antennae luteous or luteo casta- 

 neous, heavily infuscated apically, two-thirds (male) or hardly half 

 (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum feebly constricted 

 mesially, ciuereo-fuscous more or less infuscated, sometimes punctate 

 with fuscous, pilose, the lateral lobes of the prozona distinctly tumid 

 above and piceous or blackish fuscous, the disk considerably convex, 

 particularly on the prozona, and passing into the sub vertical lateral 

 lobes by a well-rounded shoulder, which is distinctly augulate on the 

 metazona only, forming blunt lateral carinae; median cariua percurrent, 

 marked in black, distinct throughout but more elevated and longitudi- 

 nally arched on the metazona and sometimes subobsolete between the 

 sulci; front margin faintly convex, hind margin obtusangulate, the 

 angle well rounded; prozona quadrate, only a little if any longer than 

 the rather sparsely and shallowly punctate metazona. Prosterual spine 

 short, very stout, appressed conical, very blunt; interspace between 

 mesosternal lobes a little broader than long (male) or fully half as broad 

 again as long but narrower than the lobes (female), the metasternal lobes 

 subattingent (male) or about half as distant as the mesosternal lobes 

 (female). Tegmina reaching to about the middle of the hind femora, 

 overlapping, rapidly tapering but apically well rounded, cinereo-fuscous 

 often with a vinous tinge, generally heavily flecked with blackish fus- 

 cous, particularly but not exclusively in the discoidal area. Fore and 

 middle femora somewhat tumid in the male; hind femora testaceous or 

 flavo-testaceous, on the upper half obliquely and rather broadly bifas- 

 ciate with fuscous or blackish fuscous, besides a basal spot of the same 

 and an infuscated or piceous upper genicular lobe, the inferior face 

 flavous; hind tibiae pale red brightening apically, the spines black in 

 their apical half, nine to eleven, usually ten, in number in the outer 

 series. Extremity of male abdomen clavate, somewhat recurved, the 

 supraanal plate triangular with acutangulate apex, nearly plane sur- 

 face, with a moderately broad and equal median sulcus, gradually 

 fading beyond the middle; furcula consisting of a pair of very slender 

 tapering parallel fingers, extending over the outer sides of the subme- 

 dian ridges of the supraanal plate by about the length of the last dor- 

 sal segment; cerci stout and thick, subequal, hardly tapering blades, 

 about twice as long as broad, nearly straight but faintly arcuate, well 

 rounded apically, very faintly twisted with a feeble sulcation or com- 

 pression som times apparent along the upper outer margin of the apical 

 half; subgenital plate rather small, of about equal length and breadth, 

 the apical margin a little elevated, broadly truncate as seen from behind 

 and entire, a feeble ridge descending from each extremity of the apical 

 margin across the apical face. 



Length of body, male, 16 mm., female, 19 mm.; antennae, male, 6.25 

 mm., female, 5 mm.; tegmina, male, 7.5 mm., female, 8 mm.; hind fem- 

 ora, male, 9.75 mm., female, 10.5 mm. 



