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about equal to the infra-ocular sulcus in length ; antennae slightly longer 

 than the head and pronotum together, slightly depressed, the distal sec- 

 tion not curled. Pronotum with the disk considerably flattened, the sur- 

 face of the disk with irregular, usually linear rugosities ; cephalic margin 

 very broadly obtuse-angulate, caudal margin slightly acute-angulate, lat- 

 eral margins of the metazona angulate but not carinate, slightly expand- 

 ing caudad, metazona almost twice as long as the prozona ; lateral lobes 

 of the pronotum distinctly deeper than long, ventro-cephalic angle dis- 

 distinct, ventro-caudal angle broadly rounded, sulci deeply impressed. 

 Tegmina reaching caudad of the apex of the abdomen by nearly the 

 length of the pronotum; costal margin arcuate distad, apex rounded; medi- 

 astine vein strong, little curved ; intercalary vein as a whole nearer the 

 median than the anterior ulnar vein. Wings with the greatest width con- 

 tained about one and two-thirds times in the length, costal margin slightly 

 sigmoid, apex rounded, the axillary field arcuate in the margin ; discoidal 

 vein with three rami. Interspace between the mesosternal lobes nearly 

 twice as broad as deep ; interspace betwaen themetasternal lobes slightly 

 narrower than the interspace between the mesosternal lobes, but some- 

 what shallower and as distinctly transverse. Cephalic and median limbs 

 slender. Caudal femora moderately expanded and with carinae well de- 

 veloped as usual in Hippiscus, the ventral carina moderately but not 

 greatly expanded mesad, the pattern of the pagina deeply impressed ; 

 caudal tibiae armed with eight to ten spines on the lateral and internal 

 margins. 



( ".eneral colors mottled bistre and burnt umber. Head variegated with 

 fine lines and threads of buffy dorsad and with a scrumbling of ecru drab 

 ventrad ; eyes tawny-olive ; antennae of the general colors, darker dis- 

 tad. Pronotum with a considerable amount of buffy mottling on the 

 prozona, on the lateral lobes the same portion has a median subquadrate 

 dark patch, relieved ventrad by a pale line, metazona washed with dull 

 maroon purple. Tegmina with a great number of small subquadrate 

 blotches, which are congregated proximad and about mesad 10 form two 

 very poorly defined bands. Wings with the disk pale geranium red, the 

 proximal two thirds of the anterior field bistre, the transverse band rather 

 weak and narrow, continued around to the caudal margin but not reach- 

 ing the proximal one, greatest width of the band less than a sixth the 

 length of the wing ; apical third hyaline except for a slight clouding in 

 the extreme apex. Caudal femora wood brown, with three transverse 

 and oblique bands of bistre, the bands being distinct dorsad, but weak 

 laterad and ventrad, the proximal one only present on the dorsal and 

 part of the ventral face, genicular region suffused ; caudal tibiae green- 

 ish yellow, the tips of the spines black. 



Measurements. 



Length of body 29. mm. 



Length of pronotum 6.5 " 



Greatest caudal width of disk of pronotum 5. " 



