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similar. Grube describes the temples of Intfopl with 

 but one long hair; fitriatarn has four, aii<l liii- prothorax 

 of kujupi is figured by Grube as being extraordinarily 

 long. 



Description of female. Body, length 2.22 umi., 

 width .*.>! mm.; well marked, with entire transversal 

 abdominal bands, with wide, whitish intersegmental 

 spaces, and distinct, blackish, narrow lateral bands. 



Head, length .3 mm., width .66 mm.; broadly para- 

 bolic in front, with slight rectangular orbital emargi- 

 nation; half a dozen short hairs on each lateral margin 

 of forehead and three long hairs in region just in front 

 of orbital emargination ; the palpi projecting, as also 

 the antennae; temples narrow, five longish hairs, two 

 more rising from occipital margin of temporal region; 

 occipital margin concave, straight in the middle; 

 ground color light brown, palest in median region, with 

 very narrow blackish occipital border, blackish curving 

 ocular blotches, and transversal dark brown bar in 

 mandibular region. 



Prothorax rather large, long; lateral angles obtuse, 

 with three spines; posterior margin, from angle to 

 angle, making a liattened semicircle and bearing 14 

 long hairs; ground color pale smoky brown, regions of 

 lateral angles distinctly darker, transverse chitin bar 

 dark, narrow, with a spine rising from each extremity; 

 curving chitin bars at extremities of the transverse bar 

 distinct, narrow. Metathorax with a broad whitish 

 sutural space separating the small colored mesothoracic 

 region from metathorax; metathorax with nearly 

 straight posterior margin, and a series of hairs along 

 straight })Osterior margin of broad chestnut-brown; 

 transverse bar witli narrt)\v blackish lateral borders. 

 Legs pale to smoky brown, with narrow, blackish dorsal 



