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[Prothorax black, a pale blue? spot on each side of the middle lobe.] 



Thoracic dorsum blackish ; humeral suture, most of metepisternum 

 and much of metepimeron pale bluish-green, but metepisternum and 

 metepimeron each with an [oblique] lilackish stripe, less than one-half 

 as wide as the metepisternum but more than one-half as wide as the 

 metepimeron. [Pectus pale bluish-green.] 



Abdomen black, a spot on each side of segment i, a longitudinal 

 stripe on each side of 2 and a small basal spot on each side of 3, pale 

 green. 



Ventral surface of thorax pruinose and traces of pruinosity on ven- 

 tral surfaces of abdominal segments. 



[Legs: femora superiorly, tibiae inferiorly and tarsi blackish brown, 

 femora inferiorly and tibiae superiorly pale, perhaps bluish in life.] 



Superior appendages twice as long as abdominal segment 10, hardly 

 as long as segment 9, black, in dorsal view forcipate, each becoming 

 more slender to the apex which is acute and bent mesad at the extreme 

 tip. Each appendage has a straight inferior process, projecting mesad, 

 ventrad and caudad, best seen in oblique dorso-lateral view, and whose 



Fig. 2. — Left profile, Fig. 3. — Dorsal 



Views of apex of abdomen of Miocora peraltica n. sp., type c?. 



proximal and distal edges separate from the inferior margin of the 

 appendage at 5/14 and 8/14 of the latter's length respectively; distal 

 edge of this process 3/14 of the length of the appendage; process be- 

 coming more slender toward its roundly acute apex. In profile view 

 each appendage is directed caudad and ventrad as far as the last tenth 

 of its length where its acute apex is curved dorsad; the appendage 

 gradually decreases in thickness from base to apex, shows on its in- 

 ferior margin a slight post basal convexity and the process described 

 above, foreshortened at about mid-length. Inferior appendages not de- 

 veloped. 



