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vertex gently tumid, but little elevated above the pronotnm, the inter- 

 space between the eyes half as broad again (male) or twice as broad 

 (female) as the first anteimal joint; fastigium moderately decli vent, 

 rather shallowly (male) or scarcely (female) sulcate; frontal costa fading 

 before the clypeus, snbequal, about as broad as the interspace between 

 the eyes, scarcely sulcate (male) or feebly sulcate at and below the 

 ocellus (female), punctate throughout ; eyes moderate in size, not very 

 prominent, only a little longer than the infraocular portion of the genae; 

 antennae testaceous or rufo-testaceous, more than two-thirds (male) or 

 about one-half (female) as long as the hind femora. Pronotum distinctly 

 enlarging from in front backward particularly in the female, the disk 

 broadly convex, subtectiform, passing by an abrupt angle forming dis- 

 tinct lateral carinae into the anteriorly feebly tumid vertical lateral 

 lobes, the lateral carinae faintly marked with flavous or rufous, followed 

 beneath at least on the prozona with a narrow bordering of black, occa- 

 sionally extending, but generally as a feeble suffusion, over the upper 

 half of the lateral lobes; median carina percurrent, sharp on the meta- 

 zona, dull but distinct on the prozona, except that it is always feebler 

 and sometimes subobsolete between the sulci; front margin truncate, 

 hind margin truncate but inesially emarginate, especially in the female j 

 prozona subequal and distinctly longitudinal (male) or tapering and 

 longitudinally subquadrate (female), fully (male) or less than (female) 

 half as long again as the closely and heavily punctate metazona. Pro- 

 sternal spine long, slender, erect, conical (male) or moderately long, 

 stout, conical, rather blunt, erect (female) 5 interspace between meso- 

 sternal lobes somewhat variable, being from half as long again to fully 

 twice as long as broad (male) or subquadrate either longitudinally or 

 transversely (female). Tegmina much shorter than the pronotum, dis- 

 tant, lateral, elliptical, varying from hardly more than half as long 

 again as broad to more than twice as long as broad, apically well 

 rounded, brownish fuscous. Fore and middle femora considerably tumid 

 in the male; hind femora rather stout but pretty long, testaceous, gener- 

 ally with feeble remnants of bifasciation with fuscous, especially on the 

 outer face and upper half of inner face, the lower half of the latter with 

 the inferior face sanguineous, the genicular arc fuscous ; hind tibiae paler 

 or darker glaucous, sometimes a little infuscated, the basal third some- 

 times with a postbasal flavous annulation, the spines pallid on basal, 

 black on apical balf, nine to twelve in number in the outer series. 

 Extremity of male abdomen clavate, considerably recurved, the supra- 

 anal plate triangular with rectangulate apex and straight sides, the 

 surface nearly plane, the median sulcus occupying at base a large flat 

 triangular field (represented far too small in our figure), beyond which 

 it continues to the tip as a feeble slit; furcula consisting of a pair of 

 approximate, slight, blunt denticulations; cerci broad at base, tapering- 

 pretty regularly and somewhat rapidly, the apical third subequal and 

 very slender, not a fourth the width of the base, a little twisted and 



