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above with fuscous in a pair of parallel longitudinal streaks; vertex 

 moderately tumid, somewhat elevated above the pronotum, the inter- 

 space between the eyes not very broad, a little broader than (male) 

 or half as broad again as (female) the first antennal joint; fastigium 

 moderately declivent, sulcate broadly throughout, more deeply in the 

 male than in the female; frontal costa rather prominent above, equal, 

 just failing to reach the clypeus,as broad as the interspace between the 

 eyes, feebly sulcate at and below the ocellus, biseriately punctate above; 

 eyes large, moderately prominent, very much longer than the infraoc- 

 ular portion of the genae; antennae luteous or fulvous, almost as long 

 (male) or fully two-thirds as long (-female) as the hind femora. Prono- 

 tum subequal, feebly expanding on the metazona, the disk feebly con- 

 vex and passing, by a broadly rounded shoulder occasionally feebly 

 indicating a lateral carina, into the vertical lateral lobes, which are 

 marked above on the prozona by an often partially broken piceous band, 

 followed beneath by irregular quadrate patches of sallow luteous; 

 median carina distinct on the metazona, almost or quite obsolete on the 

 prozona; front margin truncate, hind margin slightly obtusangulate; 

 prozona longitudinal (male) or quadrate (female), scarcely if any longer 

 than the rather closely-punctate metazona. Prosternal spine short, 

 conico-cylindrical, blunt, erect; interspace between mesosternal lobes 

 more than twice as long as broad (male) or a little longer than broad 

 (female). Tegmina surpassing, generally to a considerable degree, the 

 hind femora, slender, gently tapering, apically well rounded, brownish 

 fuscous, finely speckled throughout with cinereous and with a slender 

 line of alternate pale and dark bars and dots in the discoidal area and 

 sometimes a second line along the upper edge of the anal area; wings 

 ample, very delicate, glistening hyaline with glauco-fuscous veins. 

 Fore and middle femora somewhat tumescent in the male, all the femora 

 luteo ferruginous flecked with fuscous, the hind pair bifasciate with 

 fuscous, which is transverse on the upper face, very oblique and con- 

 fined to the upper half on the outer face, the lower face a little ruddy; 

 hind tibiae pale blue, rarely with a luteous tinge, the spines pallid in 

 their basal, black in their apical half, ten to twelve, usually ten, in 

 number in the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen considerably 

 <?lavate, well rounded, not greatly recurved, the supraanal plate rather 

 long triangular with feebly acutangulate apex and scarcely elevated 

 lateral margins, nearly plane, feebly depressed, the median sulcus only 

 apparent at tip where it passes between two slight lateral bosses; 

 furcula consisting of a pair of basally adjacent, very broad, flattened, 

 tapering fingers, apically produced as slender aciculate extensions, 

 reaching fully three-fourths of the way across the supraanal plate; cerci 

 moderately narrow, basally tapering, compressed laminae, which at the 

 middle are abruptly bent inward at right angles but with a rounded 

 curve, and then bent at extreme tip backward again, all the while 

 broadening feebly, the whole outer side of the bent portion broadly 



