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fulvous or flavous, more (male) or less (female) than two-thirds as long 

 as the hind femora. Proiiotuin subequal, feebly enlarging posteriorly, 

 with a very broad postocular piceous band, occasionally maculate 

 especially in the female, rarely surpassing the prozona and then broad- 

 ening and decidedly weakening on the metazona; disk very broadly 

 convex, passing by a blunt shoulder nowhere forming distinct lateral 

 carinae into the vertical, anteriorly feebly tumid, lateral lobes; median 

 carina distinct on the metazona, subobsolete on the prozona, sometimes 

 wholly obsolete between the sulci; front margin subtruncate, hind 

 margin obtusangulate, the angle rounded; prozona longitudinal (male) 

 or quadrate (female), distinctly (male) or scarcely (female) longer than 

 the ruguloso-punctate metazona. Prosternal spine conical, bluntly 

 pointed (male) or appressed cylindrical, very blunt (female), moderately 

 long, erect; interspace between mesosternal lobes about three times as 

 long as (male) or a little longer than (female) broad, the metasterual 

 lobes attingent over a considerable space (male) or approximate (female). 

 Thoracic pleura luteous, the incisures black and the mesothoracic epi- 

 inera darber than the ground, often blackish or even black. Tegmina 

 surpassing considerably the hind femora, of normal breadth, feebly 

 tapering, brownish fuscous, with usually very distinct and prominent 

 maculation of quadrate blackish spots, interrupting a median luteous 

 or pallid stripe in the basal half, becoming a sprinkling of blackish 

 dots beyond, sometimes found also more or less obscurely in the other 

 areas; wings moderately broad, hyaline, sometimes very feebly infu- 

 inated at the edge near the tip, the veins bluish fuscous apically and 

 anteriorly. Fore and middle legs only a little tumid in the male, 

 luteo-testaceous flecked with fuscous; hind femora luteo-testaceous, 

 twice barred above with blackish fuscous besides a basal spot, and 

 more or less deeply infuscated geniculation, the bars liable on the 

 middle of the outer face to fuse more or less completely into a 

 median stripe, which sometimes suffuses the whole face; lower face 

 sometimes feebly roseate; hind tibiae very feebly valgate, glaucous, 

 occasionally feebly infuscated, the base and tip feebly lutescent, with 

 a narrow postbasal fusco-glaucous annulus, the spines rather short, black 

 beyond their pallid bases, ten to eleven in number in the outer series. 

 Extremity of male abdomen slightly clavate, upturned but scarcely 

 recurved, the supraanal plate ovate- triangular, broadest at some dis- 

 tance beyond the base, the sides broadly and gently uplifted, the eleva- 

 tion abruptly broken by a preapical lateral transverse sulcation, the 

 apex acutangulate, the median sulcus occupying only the basal half. 

 and very shallow and equal, except when, as sometimes, the apical por- 

 tion is much compressed; furcula consisting of a pair of long and slen- 

 der, equally tapering and acuminate, more or less flattened, slightly 

 divergent and very feebly arcuate fingers, somewhat less than half as 

 long as the supraanal plate; cerci small, compressed, subequal, incurved, 

 lateral plates, gradually and rather slightly contracted mesially, the tip 



