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above with fiiscons in a pair of parallol lon^itiulinal strejilvs; vertex 

 iiUMlerately tiiinid, somewhat elevated ab<»v»' tlie pronotiuii^ the inter- 

 spaee between tlie eyes not very l)roa<i, a little broader than (male) 

 or halt' as broad a^ain as (female) the tirst aiitennal Joint: t'asti^inni 

 moderaiely decliveiit, Milcate broadly thronjjhout, more deeply in the 

 male than in tlie female; frontal e<»sta rather prominent above, erpial, 

 just failing lo iea<;li theelypens,as broad as the interspace between the 

 eyes, feebly snhat'J at an i I 1 »w theocellus, l»iseriately i»nnctate above; 

 eyes lar^e, moderately pu, ii. nt, very mneh longer than the infraoc- 

 nlar portion of the ^enae; antennae Inteoas or fnlvons, almost as lon^ 

 (male or fully tw(»-thirds as long (fen ale) as the hind femora. Prono- 

 tum snbeqnal, feebly exjiauding on the mt*ffizona, the disk feebly con- 

 vex and passinjj:, by a broadly rounded si oulder o<'easionally feebly 

 indicating? a lateral <'arina, into the vertical lateral lobes, which are 

 marked above on the prozoiia by an often partially uroken jnceous band, 

 followetl beneath by irrejjfular cpiadrate patches of sallow liitcous; 

 median carina distinct on the metazona, almost or (juite obsolete on the 

 prozona: front marjjin truncate, hind marj:fin slijjfhtly obtusangulate; 

 jifozona lonjritudinal (male) or quadrate (female), scarcely i* any lonoer 

 than the rather closely-punctate metazona. I'rosternal ine short, 

 conico-cylindrical, idunt, erect; interspace between nie^^ iial lobes 



more than twice as V)\\g as l)road (male) or a little lonj;,v.i , ..n broad 

 (female). Teg^miua surpassing:, generally to a considerable degree, the 

 hind femora, slender, gently tapering, ai)ically well rounded, brownish 

 fuscous, tinely speckled throughout with cinereous and m ith a slender 

 line of alternate pale and dark bars and dots in the divscoidal area and 

 sometimes a second line along the upi)er edge of the anal area: wings 

 ample, very delicate, glistening hyaline with glauco-fuscous veins. 

 Foie and middle femora somewiiat tumescent in the male, all the femora 

 luteo ferruginous flecked with fuscous, the hind pair bifasciate with 

 fuscous, which is transverse on the upper face, very obliciue and con- 

 fined to the ui)per half on the outer face, the lower face a little ruddy; 

 hind tibiae pale blue, rarely with a luteous tinge, the spines pallid in 

 their basal, black in their aj)ical half, ten to twelve, usually ten, in 

 number in the outer series. Extremity of male abdomen considerably 

 clavate, well rounded, not greatly recurved, the supraanal ])late rather 

 long triangular with feebly acutangulate ai)ex and scarcely elevated 

 lateral margins, nearly plane, feebly depressed, the median sulcus only 

 apparent at tip where it passes between two slight lateral bosses; 

 furcula consisting of a pair of basally adjacent, very broad, flattened, 

 tapering Angers, apically produced as slender aciculate extensions, 

 reaching fully three-fourths of the way across the supraanal idate ; cerci 

 moderately narrow, basally ta[)ering, compressed laminae, which at the 

 middle are abruptly bent inwjird at right angles but with a rounded 

 curve, and then bent at extreme tip backward again, all the while 

 broadening feebly, the whole outer side of the bent portion broadly 



