NO. 1124. Rt:! isiny (>/•• TNK MELAsnri.i—sri inth.u. 2-45 



vertex ^(Mitly tumid, but Iittl(M»l('vat«Ml aho\e Ww prouotuni. tln' inter- 

 spiuM^ lH*tNve«Mi the eyes half as ]»n)a<l a^ain (inah») or twice as broad 

 (It'inale) as the first aiitemial Joint; fastijfiuui luoderately derlivent, 

 latiier sliallowly finale) orscareely (tVnude) suh*ate; frontal costa fadin*;; 

 before tin* clypeus, snbe(|ual, about as broad as the interspace between 

 the eyes, scarcely sulcate (male) or feebly sulcate at and below the 

 o(;ellus (female), punctate throuj^hout ; eyes mo< borate in si/e, not very 

 prominent, (udy a little h>n^er than the infraocular ])ortion of the <j:enae; 

 antennae testaceous or rufo-testaceoua, more tlian two-thirds (male) or 

 about one-half (female) as lon^as the hind feniora. IVonotum distinctly 

 i'lilarj^iuf^ from in front battkward particularly in the female, tlie disk 

 broadly convex, subteetiform, i>a8sin^ by an abrupt angle formin**- dis- 

 tinct Literal carinac into the anteriorly feebly tumid vertical lateral 

 lobes, the lateral carinac faintly marked with flavous or rufous, followed 

 Ijcneath at least on the prozona with a narrow bordering of black, occa- 

 sionally extending, but generally as a feeble suffusion, (»ver the upper 

 half of the lateral lobes: median carina percurrent, sharp on the meta- 

 zona, dull but distinct on the prozona, except that it is always feebler 

 and sometimes subobsolete between the sulci; fnnit margin truncate, 

 hind margin truncate but mesially emarginate, es])ecially in the female; 

 l)rozona subecpial and distinctly longitudinal (male) or tapering and 

 longitudinally subciuadrate (female), fully (male) ov less than (female) 

 lialf as long again as the closely and heavily i)unctate metazona. Pro- 

 sternal spine long, slemler, erect, conical (male) or moderately long, 

 stout, conical, rather blunt, erect (female); intersjiace between meso- 

 sternal lobes somewhat variable, being from half as long again to fully 

 twice as long as broad (male) or subrjuadrate either longitudinally or 

 transversely (female). Tegmina much shorter than the pronotum, dis- 

 tant, lateral, elliptical, varying from hardly more than half as long- 

 again as broad to more than twice as long as broad, ai)ically well 

 rounded, brownish fuscous. Fore and middle femora considerably tumid 

 in the male; hind femora rather stout but pretty long, testaceous, gener- 

 ally with feeble remnants of bifasciation with fuscous, especially on the 

 outer face aiul upper half of inner face, the lower half of the latter with 

 the inferior face sanguineous, the genicular arc fuscous; hind tibiae paler 

 or darker glaucous, sometimes a little infuscated, the basal third .some- 

 times with a postbasal tiavous iwunulatiou, the spines [)allid on basal, 

 b]a<-k on apical half, nine to twelve in number in the outer series. 

 I^xtremity of male abdomen clavate, considerably recurved, the supra 

 anal plate triangular with lectangulate apex and straight sides, the 

 surface nearly plane, the median sulcus occupying at base a large Hat 

 riiangular field (represented far too small in our figure), beyond which 

 it continues to the tip as a feeble slit: furcula con.sisting of a pair of 

 a))proximate, slight, blunt denticulations; cerci broad at base, tapering 

 pretty regularly and somewhat rapidlj*, the apical third subequal and 

 very slender, not a fourth the width of the base, a little twisted and 



