NEW MAI.LOl'HACA. 115 



Oil the anterior angles. Metatliorax narrow, sides 

 diverging, posterior angles rounding, posterior margin 

 straight, with one long hair, one short hair, and a short 

 spine; narrow dark hruwn marginal band on the ante- 

 rior ajiffle and lateral l)order; faint indications of an 

 uncolored longitudinal median line. Legs robust; 

 femora broad; fulvous with darker markings on the bor- 

 der; a series of short hairs on the outer margin of the 

 tibia. Sternal markings consisting of intercoxal lines, 

 a distinct shield-shaped median blotch on the pro- 

 thorax, a narrow median darker longitudinal blotch 

 between the pro- and mesothorax, a larger median 

 blotch between the second and third pair of legs, with 

 a distinct triangular anterior portion and a quadrangu- 

 lar posterior portion. 



Abdomen broadly elongate; posterior angles projecting 

 but little, with one long hair in each angle, and a series 

 of dorsal hairs on the posterior margin of each seg- 

 ment; segments widely separated by uncolored sutures; 

 transverse lateral blotches fuscous, darkening on the 

 lateral margins into narrow bands; segments 1 to 5 with 

 the transverse blotches separated by a narrow uncolored 

 median line; segments 5 to 8 entirely dark fuscous; 

 last segment with broadly rounding posterior margin, 

 one long and one short hair each side and a series of 

 short hairs on the posterior margin; color an even fus- 

 cous. Ventral surface a small median triangular fus- 

 cous blotch on segment 1; transverse blotches uninter- 

 rupted, but the posterior margin of the blotches on 

 segments 2 to 6 emarginated, darker fuscous on the 

 posterior margin; a double series of pustulated hairs 

 and a few scattered hairs on each segment. 



