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being almost glabrous. The anterior part of the mesonotum 

 is covered with long black hairs and with distinctly separated 

 punctures, the sides, too, towards the apex being longitu- 

 dinally depressed. The median segment is as long as the 

 pro- and mesothorax united ; above, it is thickly covered 

 with long black hair, closely transversely striated, a broad 

 and deep depression down its centre, and there is another 

 broad depression at its sides at the base and a narrower one 

 in tlie middle at the sides. The pleurae are covered with long 

 black hairs. The propleuraj have a broad deep oblique 

 depression in the centre, behind which they are rather 

 strongly punctured, in front of it with only a few punctures. 

 The mesopleurte bear distinctly separated punctures, except 

 on the sides of the oblique depression in the centre, above 

 Avhich they are obscurely longitudinally striated. The meta- 

 pleurffi are impunctate. The mesosternum is covered wnth 

 long black hairs and with distinctly separated punctures ; 

 there is a deep longitudinal channel down its centre, at the 

 end of which it becomes depressed, rising again towards the 

 mesocoxa^, the space between being hollowed and at the sides 

 longitudinally crenulated, the part between the coxas being 

 slightly punctured at the sides and broadly furrowed down 

 the centre, the sides of the furrow towards the apex having a 

 few longitudinal keels. The petiole is longer than the hind 

 coxai and the second abdominal segment ; the other abdominal 

 segments shining, glabrous, the second segment depressed at the 

 base in the centre. The third to the sixth ventral segments 

 are alutaceous. Wings deep dark violaceous, the nervures 

 black ; the first recurrent nervure is received at half the 

 distance from the base that the second is from the apex. The 

 legs are almost glabrous; the tarsi spinose ; the iiind tibiae 

 spinose on the inner side, and with six irregular somewhat 

 oval depressions on the outer side. The hind trochanters are 

 twice the length of the coxse. The hinder femora are 

 broadly dilated towards the apex ; the apex on the outer side 

 is somewhat hollowed and depressed above, the top of the 

 depression being distinctly margined, the middle above at the 

 apex having five stout curved keels, in front of wiiich are 

 a few narrower oblique keels ; beneath near the apex the 

 centre is raised and the sides in the middle at the apex project 

 into two stout teeth, between which the tibite Mt when bent 

 downwards. 



P. crassipes may be known from the other species of 

 Podium described by me by the longer bipartite prothorax, 

 the longer hind trochanters, and the longer clavate hinder 

 femora. The hind claws have two teeth at the base. Tiie 

 hind tarsi are twice the length of the tibice. 



