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the ends much rounded ; disk posteriorly deflected, within the 

 hinder angles more or less raised, across the middle depressed, the 

 centre with a longitudinal keel, which ceases on the anterior 3rd. 

 Scutellum partly covered by the base of the pronotum, the portion 

 visible small, thick, pointed. Elytra longer than the abdomen, 

 narrow, the sides parallel ; Cerium long, going from the end of the 

 clavus to a fine point ; posterior margin straight ; nerves strong, the 

 interstices filled with cellular punctures ; Membrane lanceolate, the 

 apex obtuse ; nerves 5, simple. Sternum ; rostral channel reaching 

 to the end of the metasternum, deep, narrow, wider on the meso- 

 sternum. Legs very long, filiform ; coxed large, 3rd pair distant ; 

 thighs at the top long-clavate ; tibiae suddenly bent and thickened at 

 the top ; tarsi long, 1st joint as long as the 2nd and 3rd together. 



Abdomen above flat, beneath convex ; the posterior margin of the 

 last segment straight, closely united to the 1st genital segment ; 

 Connexivum broad, flexible. Genital segments, in <$ , rounded, with- 

 out lateral processes ; beneath, the 1st segment is rounded, convex, 

 cap-like, covering the other 2 segments, which are barely visible at 

 the sides ; in $ , beneath, the 1st segment is obtusely pointed, com- 

 pressed at the sides, and with a slight ridge in the centre ; it overlies 

 the 2nd segment in its centre, and reaches on to the base of the 

 long, subquadrangular 3rd segment, which has a slit down the 

 centre; the points of the 2nd segment at the sides alone are 

 visible. 



Species 1. NEIDES DEPRESSUS. 



NEIDES DEPRESSUS, Fiel. in litt. 

 Pale ochreous ; pronotum quadrangular, not convex. 



Head finely punctured, at the sides tinged with fuscous or dark 

 ochreous, and with fine wavy, whitish hairs ; frontal process at the 

 end obtuse. Antenna yellowish ; 1st joint fuscous at the base, the 

 club with black punctures in rows, forming a line at the sides ; 4th 

 black, delicately haired. Eyes dark brown. Ocelli ochreous. Ros- 

 trum yellow at the base and on the inner side, the rest pitchy- 

 black. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; disk with subconfluent rounded punctures, 

 larger towards the base, on the 1 st third scarcely perceptible ; side 



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