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ing apically iufuscated, about three-fourths (male) or two thirds (female) 

 as long as the hind femora; clypeus, labrum and base of mandibles 

 mottled like the face, the labrnm edged with black; palpi pallid, 

 streaked exteriorly with purplish brown, the last joint tipped with 

 purplish black. Pronotura subequal, feebly and regularly enlarging 

 posteriorly, the upper portion of the lateral lobes with a broad piceous 

 band, occasionally obsolete, crossing the prozoua, below which the 

 lateral lobes have the mottling of the face; disk nearly plane, sepa- 

 rated from the vertical lateral lobes by a bluntly angulate shoulder, 

 almost forming a lateral carina; median carina distinct on the meta- 

 zona, subobsolete on the prozona; front margin subtruncate, hind 

 margin feebly obtusangulate, the angle rounded; prozona longitudi- 

 nal (male) or quadrate (female), distinctly (male) or scarcely (female) 

 longer than the closely punctate inetazona. Prosternal spline short, 

 blunt, conical, a little stouter in the female than in the male and 

 appressed; interspace between mesosternal lobes about half as long 

 again as broad (male) or transverse but much narrower than the lobes 

 (female). Tegmiua extending backward about as far as the hind 

 femora, with slight variation, moderately broad, distinctly tapering, 

 brownish fuscous, not infrequently somewhat cinereous, sprinkled with 

 delicate fuscous rnaculation along the discoidal area; wings not very 

 broad, hyaline, sometimes with a scarcely perceptible yellowish tinge to 

 the anal area, the veins fuscous apically and anteriorly so as almost to 

 give the tip an infumated appearance. Fore and middle legs tumes- 

 ceut in the male, mottled with the colors of the face; hind femora 

 alternately marked externally with faint purplish brown, dark brown 

 and very pale purplish, the inferior carina yellowish bordered with 

 white, the under surface yellowish; hind tibiae coral red with ft basal 

 black annulation, the spines tipped with black, eleven to fourteen in 

 number in the outer series; tarsi of all the legs marked with fuscous 

 deepening into black, the hind tarsi also with red. Extremity of male 

 abdomen clavate, a little recurved, the supraanal plate triangular 

 with convex sides and rectangulate tip, the lateral margins feebly 

 elevated, the median sulcus as in the preceding species but with rather 

 less prominent walls; furcula present only as slight swellings of the 

 inner extremities of the mesially parted lateral halves of the last dorsal 

 segment; cerci pale brownish compressed laminae, consisting of a gently 

 tapering basal half, a little tumid, straight and scarcely twice as long 

 as the basal breadth, and a bifurcate apical half, the forks at a little 

 less than a right angle to each other, equally divergent from the basal 

 half, the lower slight and subaculeate, hardly so long as the mesial 

 breadth of t-lie stem, the upper equal or subspatulate, fully half as 

 broad and nearly as long as the stem, incurved, subsulcate and apically 

 rounded; subgenital plate pale yellowish brown, broad, about as broad 

 as long, the apical margin broadly rounded, entire, sometimes subangu- 

 late laterally, a little thickened but not raised above the lateral margin 



