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HuK'ato thron;;hont at least in the fniiiiU' and latluT <U'«'|)ly Im'Iow tho 

 ix'clluH. very t'tM'hIy and s|»ars«'Iy imnctati*; eyes of iniulerate size, 

 inodtM-ately ]»r(>ininent es|ie('ial]y in tlie male, not at all elon;;ate, hut as 

 lonj; (II ale) or almost as Ion;:; ( female i as the infraocular portion of the 

 j;enae; antennae yellowish hrown, paler helow, darkest at tip, ^jreenish 

 t<»\vard the liase. almost as lonj; (male) or three-fouiths as lonj; (female) 

 as the hind femora. I'ronotum sube<|nal. faintly constricted mesiully 

 in the mule, and faintly (male) (n- slijjhtly ( female) ex|>anding on the 

 meta/ona, dark olivateous ^ireen, the lateral hdx's bright ;;reenish yel- 

 low below, with the principal sulcus marked in black and termiiiatinj; 

 below in a small black spot: above with a broad ]>iceous postocular 

 baud which tiaverses the lu'ad and ])rouotum, expanding; postericuiy 

 on the metazona and <M)utiuued interruptedly on the abdomen as a 

 serii's of dark transverse streaks at the base of the segments; disk of 

 ]»ronotum strongly convex, passing insensibly into the vertical lateral 

 lobes; median <"ariua feeble, dull, percurrent, e(pial; front margin 

 taintly convex with a minute mesial enmrgination; hind nuirgin sub- 

 truueate with a br(»ad but very feeble enuirgiuation; prozona longitu- 

 <liiuil (male) or cpiadrate (fenuilei, nearly twice as long as the faintly 

 punctate or smooth metazona. Prosternal spine short, blunt, <*oni<'al; 

 interspace between mesostemal lobes somewhat lesstlian half as broa<l 

 again as long (male) or nearly twice as broad as long, about as broad 

 as the lobes (female), the metasternal lobes approxinuite (male) or 

 almost as distant as the mesostemal (fenude); prosternum dusky, the 

 spine tipped with brown, the rest of the sternum greenish yeHow. Teg- 

 miiia wanting. Fore and middle femora very tumid in the male, dis- 

 tinctly shorter than in the female; hind femora rather slender, 

 comi)ressed, yellowish grass green, broadly but very obscurely bifj's- 

 ciate with dark olivaceous green, the under surface and lower half of 

 inner surface coral red, the geniculation black; hind tibiae green, the 

 spines black nearly to their base, eight to eleven, usually nine to ten, 

 in number in the outer series. Abdomen hardly (male) or distinctly 

 (female) compressed, with a distinct though dull median carina, dark 

 olivaceous green (female) or as described below (male), the sides of the 

 tirst segments with a distinct tymi)anum, the extremity in the nude a 

 little clavate, much recurved, the supraanal plate triangular with 

 acutangulate apex, the sides mesially contracted and but slightly ele- 

 vated, the median sulcus distinct, deep, percurrent between rather 

 stout walls; tVtrcula consisting of a pair of approxinuite, very slender 

 and tapering, acuminate black spines, crossing the basal fifth or less of 

 the supraanal plate; cerci black, long, erect, externally tumid except at 

 the dimpled apex, not strongly compressed, tapering in the basal half 

 to two thirds the basal breadth, beyond feebly expanding to a very 

 slight degree, apically rounded but inferiorly angulate, the whole a 

 little longer than the supraanal plate and straight, being neither arcu- 

 ate nor incurved; subgenital plate very short and broad, broadly 



