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fuscous above except in widening Havens stripes which follow the outer 

 margins of the fastigium and cross the head to the lateral carinae of 

 the pronotum; vertex gently tumid, the interspace between the eyes 

 broad, almost or quite as broad as the frontal costa, the fastigium plane 

 or rarely, in the male, very feebly briefly and broadly sulcate, passing 

 insensibly into the frontal costa; the latter broad, subequal but feebly 

 and broadly narrowed above, plane or feebly sulcate below, percurrent; 

 eyes moderately prominent in the male, moderate^ large, not very 

 elongate even in the female, scarcely longer than the intraocular portion 

 of the geuae; antennae fulvous, becoming fuscous apically, as long 

 (male) or hardly more than two-thirds as long (female) as the hind 

 femora. Pronotuin subequal, but barely expanding on the metazona 

 (male) or distinctly though not greatly expanding from the posterior 

 sulcus of the prozona (female), the disk nearly plane but slightly convex, 

 separated from the sub vertical lateral lobes by a tolerably pronounced 

 but rounded angle, the median cariua feeble, between the sulci feebler, 

 rarely subobsolete; prozona very feebly and very sparsely punctate, 

 slightly (male) or feebly (female) longitudinal, fully a half (male) or 

 from a fourth to a third (female) longer than the closely and delicately 

 punctate metazona; front margin truncate or barely convex, hind margin 

 broadly rotundato-angulate; disk dark brownish fuscous, more or less 

 dark olivaceous in life, the lateral carinae more or less heavily marked 

 with a flavous stripe upon the disk, next to which the lateral lobes are 

 darkest, gradually fading below, but often forming a blackish lateral 

 stripe, which extends from the hinder edge of the eyes across the pro- 

 zona and dies out upon the metazona; at their lowest margin the 

 lateral lobes are of nearly the same color as the under surface, and 

 occasionally the whole of the lateral lobes are uniformly dull flavous or 

 flavo-testaceous, the flavous stripe of the lateral carinae marked only 

 by its brightness and a feeble blackish external edging. Prosterual 

 spine rather long and a little retrorse, conical as seen laterally, cylin- 

 drical or conico-cylindrical from in front. Tegmina reaching or a little 

 surpassing the hind femora, rarely a little less in the female, tapering 

 very regularly and gradually from the subbasal expansion, strongly 

 and uniformly rounded at tip, with a flavous stripe along the anal vein, 

 elsewhere fuscous, deepest in color in the discoidal area, free from 

 mottling; wings hyaline with the feeblest flavous tinge, the veins and 

 cross veins pallid green but becoming more and more fuscous toward 

 the apex. Fore and middle femora fulvo-olivaceous, a little iufuscated 

 above and apically; hind femora rather long and only moderately stout, 

 very variable in ground color but usually lighter than the general color 

 of the body, sometimes much lighter, sometimes without stripes or 

 bands except an infuscation along the upper carina of the outer face, 

 at others iufuscated over most of the upper half of that face, rarely with 

 three distinct, broad, black patches along the inner half of the upper 

 face, basal, median, and postmedian, the geuicular arc always black or 



