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the male; fastigium rather steeply declivent, distinctly (male) or shal- 

 lowly (female) and broadly silicate; frontal costa rather prominent, per- 

 current or almost percurrent, equal, as broad as (female) or slightly 

 broader than (male) the interspace between the eyes, biseriately punc- 

 tate throughout, slightly depressed at and just below the ocellus; eyes 

 moderately large, prominent especially in the male, much longer than 

 the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae fulvous, basally lutescent, 

 four-fifths (male) or less than three fifths (female) as long as the hind 

 femora. Pronotum subequal but for the gently flaring metazona, more 

 or less infuscated, sometimes punctate or strigose with fuscous, with a 

 generally distinct postocular piceous band on the lateral lobes of the 

 prozona, the disk very broadly convex and passing into the subvertical 

 lateral lobes by a broadly rounded but distinct shoulder, occasionally 

 angulate on the metazona; median carina distinct on the metazoua^ 

 feeble on the prozoua, nearly always (especially in the male) subobsolete 

 between the sulci; front margin truncate or subtruncate, hind margin 

 obtusangulate, the angle little rounded; prozona feebly longitudinal or 

 rarely quadrate (male) or more or less distinctly transverse (female), gen- 

 erally and especially in the male a little longer than the finely punctate 

 metazona. Prosternal spine moderately long, erect, cylindrical, blunt, 

 in the female tapering a little as seen from the front; interspace 

 between mesosternal lobe-; twice as long as broad (male) or a little 

 longer than broad (female). Tegmina reaching or somewhat surpass- 

 ing the tips of the hind femora, rather slender, tapering with some 

 distinctness, apically narrow, brownish fuscous, apically fusco-hyaline, 

 the middle third or more of the discoidal area more or less feebly and 

 rather minutely flecked with fuscous; wings moderately broad, hyaline, 

 with blackish fuscous veins. Fore and middle femora of male not very 

 tumid (the middle more than the fore femora), the hind femora flavo- 

 testaceous, very obliquely and rather broadly bifasciate with fuscous, 

 which sometimes suffuses nearly the whole upper half, the lower face 

 sometimes very feebly roseate, the genicular arc black, the lower 

 genicular lobe usually pallid throughout; hind tibiae pale glaucous, 

 rarely red, the spines black nearly to their base, ten to twelve in num- 

 ber in the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen feebly clavate, 

 gently recurved, the supraanal plate triangular with feebly convex 

 lateral margins, subrectangulate apex, and a narrow percurrent median 

 sulcus between rather high and sharp walls; furcula consisting of a 

 pair of feebly divergent, slender, tapering and acuminate, slightly 

 depressed spines about a fourth the length of the supraanal plate; 

 cerci rather small, a little more than twice as long as broad, gently 

 tapering and externally a little tumid in the basal half, beyond subequal, 

 compressed or subsulcate, gently upturned, apically subtruncate or 

 broadly rounded; subgenital plate very slightly elevated apically, the 

 margin feebly notched. 



Length of body, male, 18 mm., female, 2'2 mm. ; antennae, male, 8.25 



