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with a median black stripe and a broad postocular piceous band 

 broadly margined with flavo-testaceous; vertex well arched, slightly 

 or not elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes a 

 little broader than (male) or fully twice as broad as (female) the first 

 antenna! joint; fastigium considerably declivent, rather deeply sulcate; 

 frontal costa almost percurrent, equal, about as broad as (male) or 

 distinctly narrower than (female) the interspace between the eyes, 

 strongly sulcate throughout, sparsely punctate; eyes moderate in size, 

 prominent particularly in the male, much longer than the infraocular 

 portion of the genae; antennae pale red, feebly infuscated apically, 

 fully four-fifths (male) or about two-thirds (female) as long as the 

 hind femora. Pronotum short, subcylindrical, a little compressed, in 

 the female feebly and regularly enlarging posteriorly, in the male 

 equal on the prozona and faintly flaring on the metazona, the 

 disk in both sexes transversely convex and passing quite insensibly 

 into the vertical lateral lobes; the ground color of the prouotum 

 is flavo-testaceous, but it is heavily overlaid with black somewhat 

 irregularly, which however forms a broad dorsal band (divided 

 in the female by a mediodorsal flavous stripe) crossing the prozona 

 only, and very broad piceous (male) or brownish fuscous (female) 

 postocular bands crossing the whole pronotum, broken to some extent, 

 and especially posteriorly divided by a flavo-testaceous, posteriorly 

 flavous, longitudinal stripe running through its upper portion; the 

 transverse sulci are also marked in black and the lower margins of the 

 lobes are broadly bordered with blackish fuscous; the disk of the 

 metazona is ferruginous or rufous, more or less iufuscated laterally; 

 median carina obsolete; front margin truncate (male) or gently and 

 mesially arcuate (female), hind margin truncate; prozona very sparsely 

 punctate, subquadrate, only a third longer (the principal sulcus arcuate, 

 opening backward) than the finely punctate metazona. Prosternal 

 spine short, conical, blunt; interspace between mesosternal lobes half 

 as long again as broad (male) or a little broader than long (female). 

 Tegmina wanting. Fore and middle femora considerably swollen in the 

 male, ferrugineo flavous ; hind femora varying from flavo-testaceous to 

 ferruginous and very broadly bifasciate with black, the fasciations so 

 confused on the outer face, especially in the female, that this often 

 becomes wholly black with more or less pronounced flavous incisures, 

 the lower margin of the outer face flavous, sometimes linearly dotted 

 with black, the lower face more or less sanguineous, the sides of the 

 geniculation black except the flavous apical portion of the lower genic- 

 ular lobe; hind tibiae more or less feebly incurved apically, fusco-glau- 

 cous with a black patellar annulus, the spines black in their apical half, 

 ten, rarely nine or eleven, in number in the outer series. Abdomen with 

 meso- and metathorax dull flavo-testaceous, heavily overlaid with black 

 in more or less broken continuation of the pronotal stripes and bands, the 

 slender mediodorsal flavous stripe of the prozoiia also repeated on the 



