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Female (PL V, Fig. 2; Figs. 243, 244): Body lead-coloured, 

 elongate-oval, may attain 8x5 mm. in fully gorged specimens. Scutum: 

 08 X 07 mm., broadest near the posterior end ; antero-lateral borders 

 subrectilinear, divergent, united by a broadly rounded posterior border ; 

 emargination slight ; surface uniform, glossy, without cervical grooves, 

 punctations inconspicuous ; lateral grooves straight, parallel to the 

 borders, very fine. Dorsum covered by fine hairs, short, scattered ; in 

 the posterior third a horseshoe-shaped groove open posteriorly, and in 

 the space which it circumscribes a median groove extending more 

 posteriorly. Venter with hairs somewhat more abundant. Vulva large, 

 facing coxae III. Sexual and anal grooves very divergent, the latter 

 ogival in front of the anus; spiracles whitish, rather obliquely oval, 

 narrowed antero-dorsally. Gapitulum small (0'5 mm. Nn.); base (+ article 

 1 of palps which are fused with it) subtriangular dorsally, twice as broad 

 as long, the sides rounded, the posterior border somewhat concave, porose 

 areas round, covering the greater part of the dorsal surface, the interval 

 equal to about half their diameter. Hypostome narrow, with 2 | 2 files 

 of 7-8 blunt teeth. Palps narrow, the first article in the form of a stout 

 spur, directed transversely outward and fused with the base, article 2 

 very narrow at its base and widening gradually, twice as long as 3. 

 Legs weak, short. Coxae as in the J 1 ; tarsi slender, tapering gradually ; 

 pad almost as long as claws. 



Fig. 243. 



Pig. 244. 



Fig. 243. I. tenuirostris ? : capitulum and scutum (too long). (Neumann, 1901, Fig. 5.) 

 Fig. 244. I. tenuirostris ? : capitulum and coxae I. (Neumann, 1901, Fig. 6.) 



