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al>ovu the i)i'oiiotiiiii ovtMi in tin* iiisih*, tli«' int*»iHpju*e botweeii the eyt»8 

 nitlicr iiiiri'ow, M(!arc<'ly wider tlian (iiisile) or alioiit half as wide a^'^aiii 

 aH (t'eiiiaU>) the first aiitt'iiiial joint; tasti^xiuin rapidly <lr<'li\ (Mit, Kiilcite 

 thron^hout; frontal rosta penMirn'iit, snlu»qual, not rontnurted aUive, 

 as wide as tlu' infiTspace Ix'tween the eyes, anleat«' at and below the 

 ocellus, hiseriately snicate above; eyes pretty larjje, rather prominent, 

 niucii longer than the infrao<Milar portion of the^enae; antennae testa- 

 eeons, almost as lon^ (male) or about two thirds as Ion;; (female) as tlie 

 hind femora, rrmiotum equal on the pro/oini, expanding; a little and 

 ^Miidually on the meta/ona, more in the female than in the male, the disk 

 feebly eonvex ami passin^jf by a stronjjly ronn<led shoulder (the shoulder 

 hardly iu>ti<'eable on the prozona) into the vertical lateral lobes, which 

 have feeble and biokeii or n«» indications of a fuscous band on the 

 upper part of the pro/ona; median carina distinct on the nu'ta/ona, 

 quite or almost wholly obsolete on the prozoini; front mar^jin faintly 

 convex, hind nnujfin obtusaii^^ulati , pro/.oiui <iuadrate in the male, 

 transverse or (|uadrate in the ♦emale, feebly emar^jinate in the mi<ldle 

 posterioily, scarcely or no longer than the nsetazona. l*rosternal spine 

 short, conical, blunt, erect; interspace between mesosternal lobes much 

 moH' than twice as long (male) or half as long again (female) as broad. 

 Tegmina much surpassing the hind femora, exceptionally slemler, 

 scarcely tapering, apically well rounded, testaceous with a mesial line of 

 exceedingly feeble and sparse fuscous si)ots; wings narrow and pointed, 

 hyaline with light testae^' i veins and with scarcely perceptible 

 infumation at the extreme tip. Hind femora strongly compressed, the 

 outer face so flattened do hardly to show any convexity, testaceous, 

 immaculate, the outer face sometimes feebly infu8cate<l, the genicular 

 arc fuscous; hind tibiae luteo-testaceous, the spines black on apical half, 

 ten to eleven, usually ten, in number in the outer series. Extremity 

 of male abdomen clavate, a little ui>turned, the supraanal i)late long 

 triangular, rather strongly contracted Just beyond the base, the lateral 

 margins narrowly elevated, the apex acutangulate, the median sulcus 

 consisting of a basal trianjiular portion, beyond which it is interrui)ted 

 and again appears apically as a channel between two lateral bosses; 

 furcula consisting of a i)air of basally attingent, broad, tiattened plates 

 which taper very rapidly and then are continued as cylindrical, parallel 

 needlevS, reaching at least two-thirds way across the supraanal plate; 

 cerci slender, mesially contr.icted, apically spatulate, compressed 

 laminae, as viewed laterally straight, as viewed from above apically 

 incurved and then feebly returning to their original direction at 

 extreme tij) and there externally sulcate, the whole almost reaching 

 the tip of the supraanal plate, and the apex as broad as the Dase; 

 infracercal jdates well rounded apically, slightljMongerthan the supra- 

 anal plate; subgenital plate much longer than broad, of moderate 

 breadth, a little broader basally than apically, the apical margin 

 slightly and gradually elevated, well rounded, entire. (The drawing 

 is made from a specimen somewhat distorted by preservation in spirii^j.) 



