248 ritnCKKDISaS OF TUF. \ATln\.\l. MISFIM. vou xx. 



IMoiiottiiii, tlu* iiitor^part' betw(M'ii the wyes luinlly (tusilri tn fully 

 (leinulc) halt' as linuKl apiiii uh the tlrst anteiiiiai joint ; t'aHtii^iuiii not 

 vfiyikHlivcnt, <listiiu'tly (mah*i or lathtT t'et»hly ( female) HuUiat*'; fnuital 

 costa rather prominent, not rea«hiiiKthe elyinnis. suheipial hut narrowly 

 and ftehly eontrarteU above, a.s broad as tlu' interspace between the 

 eyes, wareely sukiate below the ocelhis, punetat«» throughout; eyes 

 rather lai<^e, rather prominent in the nnile, not at all in the female, 

 iMUcli lont^er than the infraoeular |H)rti<ui of the ^enae; antennae luteo 

 or fnlvo-testareouH, a little infuseate<l a)>ically and paler at the base, 

 nearly four tifthsdnalei or two thirdK (female) an Ion;; as the hind femora. 

 Tronotum feebly expanding' posteriorly, the disk dark fuscous, a broa<l 

 dull tiavous or <*inereous stripe <ui either side, limited exteriorly by the 

 lateral earinae ami j^enerally fading or obsolete on the nieta/ona, leaving 

 between then* a mesial fuscous stripe no broader than they, the lateral 

 lobes tlavo-testaceouH below with a postocular pieeous baml, very broa<l 

 and sometimes percurrent, but then broadened and dit!used or em 

 browned on the meta/ona; disk very broadly convex. ])asainpf almost 

 insensibly into the subvertical lateral lobes; median carina divstinct 

 and sharp on the meta/ona, ahnost wholly wanting on the ])rozona; 

 tront nuir^in truiu^ate, hind mar;;in very broadly rounded or subtrun 

 cate, occasionally subangulate; pro/ona sparsely ]>unctate, varying 

 tVom quadrate to distinctly longitudinal, the latter only in the nuih', a 

 tliird to a half longer than the tiiiely ])unctate metazona. Prosternal 

 spine short, stout, ionical. shorter an<l stouter in the female than in tlie 

 male; interspace between mesosternal lobes twice or more than twice 

 as long as broad with |>arallel sides (male) or longitudimilly subcpiad 

 rate (female). Tegmiua abbreviate, shorter than the pronotum, rotund 

 ato-ovate, from a fourth to a half as long again as broad, well rimnded 

 apicalIy,api)roximate or subattingent, rarely attingent, brownish fuscous 

 sometimes streaked with cinereous. Fore and middle femora of mah' 

 considerably tumid; hind femora moderately slender, tlavo testaceous, 

 ilistinctly and rather narrowly bifasciate with blackish fuscous, the 

 geniculation blackish fuscous, the inferior face tiavous sometimes infus 

 cate<l; hind tibiae pale fusco glaucous, the sjunes pallid on basal, black 

 on jijncal half, nine to eleven, usually eleven, in number in the outer 

 series. Extremity of male abdomen clavate. very strongly recurved, 

 the supraanal ]»late triangular with acutangulate apex, nearly i>lane, 

 with a pair of lateral arcuate blunt incurved ridges, formed of a plic;i 

 tion beginning with the basal half of the lateral margins but eiulinu 

 abruptly before the median line, the median sulcus very slight and 

 >lender, percurrent: furcula entirely wanting; cerci broad and slightly 

 tumid at base, rapidly and regularly tapering in the i)roximal half 

 beyond nuich less ra})idiy. tiie distal half forming a compres.«>ed, sub 

 e(|ual, slender, incurved ribbon, hardly more than a third as broad as 

 the base, the tip rouudei. but slightly angulate below, the whole about 

 twice as long as the basal breadth, suberect; subgenital plate bluntly 



