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and geune; eyes not very large, moderately (female) or distinctly (male) 

 prominent, scarcely longer (male) or a little shorter (female) than the 

 intraocular portion of the genae; antennae castaneous, apically fus- 

 cescent, a little more than (male) or about (female) two thirds as long as 

 the hind femora. Pronotum subequal, feebly and gradually enlarging 

 posteriorly, the lateral lobes with a broad piceons postocular band con- 

 fined to the prozona and sometimes followed beneath by lighter spots, 

 the disk piano convex, passing into the vertical lateral lobes by a dis- 

 tinct but rounded angulation forming dull lateral carinae, most distinct 

 on the posterior section of the prozona; median carina distinct and 

 moderately high on the melazona, subobsolete on the prozona, often 

 obsolete between the sulci; front margin truncate, hind margin obtus- 

 augulate, the angle broadly rounded in tl.e female; prozona slightly 

 longitudinal (male) or distinctly transverse (female), considerably (male) 

 or not (female) longer than the ruguloso punctate metazona. Prosternal 

 spine rather short, conical with a blunt point, suberect; interspace 

 between mesosternal lobes subquadrate (male) or transverse, as broad as 

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

 (female). Tegmina somewhat abbreviate, attaining about the middle 

 of the hind femora, overlapping, long lanceolate, very roundly acumi- 

 nate at tip, the dorsal field more or less ferrugineo- testaceous, the 

 rest blackish griseous, the whole profusely sprinkled with blackish 

 fuscous spots; wings a little shorter than the tegmina. Fore and middle 

 femora, and especially the latter, a little tumid in the male; hind femora 

 testaceous or ferrugineo-testaceous, rather narrowly bifasciate with 

 blackish fuscous, the geniculation fuscous, the lightest region of the 

 femora being a not very broad, dull flavo testaceous, pregenicular 

 annotation, the inferior surface and lower part of inner surface very 

 dark red; hind tibiae dark and generally bright red, with a narrow 

 fuscous patellar annulation, the spines black almost to their very base, 

 ten to eleven, rarely nine, in number in the outer series. Extremity of 

 male abdomen clavate, considerably recurved, the supraanal plate tri- 

 angular, the apex acutangulate, the basal half or more of the lateral 

 mm gins feebly convex and feebly and broadly elevated, the median 

 portion of the basal three fifths of the plate broadly elevated and pro- 

 vided with a deep and equal median sulcus; furcula consisting of a 

 pair of distant, feeble, blunt denticulations, much shorter than the 

 last dorsal segment; cerci slender, and tapering rapidly on the basal 

 fourth or third, mainly by the excision of the upper margin, beyond 

 subequal, gently incurved and faintly curved upward, apically rounded, 

 faintly sulcate exteriorly at tip, but failing to reach the tip of the 

 supraanal plate; subgenital plate subconical, nearly as broad as long, 

 apically tuberculate. 



Length of body, male, 20 mm., female, 28 mm.; antennae, male, 8 

 mm., female, 9 mm.; tegmina, male, 9.5 mm., female, 10 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 11.5 mm., female, 13 mm. 



