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fulvous or flavous, inorfi (male) or less (female) than two thirds as lotijf 

 as the hind femora, rionotuni snbe<nial, feebly enhiigiiig ])()steiiorly, 

 with a very hioad postoeular piceous band, oc<;asi()nally maculate 

 especially in the female, rarely surpassing the i)roz()na and then broad 

 eninjr and decidedly weakeniiijf on the meta/.ona; <lisk very broadly 

 convex, jiassinjx by a blunt shoulder nowhere forming distinct lateral 

 carinae into the vertical, anteriorlvfeeblv tumid, lateral lobes; median 

 carnia distinct on the metazona, subobsoleteon the prozona, sometimes 

 wholly obsolete between the sulci; front niargiii subtruncate, hind 

 marjiin obtusan^ulate, the angle rounded; jirozona longitudinal (male) 

 or quadrate (female), distinctly (male) or scarcely (female) longer than 

 the ruguloso-punctate metazona. I'rosternal spine conical, bluntly 

 pointed (male) or apjiressed cylindrical, very blunt (female), moderately 

 long, erect; interspace between mesosternal lobes about three times as 

 long as (male) or a little longer than (female) broad, the metasternal 

 lobes attingent over a considerable spiice (male) or approximate ( female). 

 Thoracic pleura luteous, the incisure black and the mesothoracic ei)i- 

 mera darlier than the ground, ofteii blackish or even black. Tegmina 

 surpassing considerably the hind femora, of normal breadth, feebly 

 tapering, brownish fuscous, with usually very distinct and ]»rominent 

 maculation of quadrate blackish si)ot8, interrupting a median luteous 

 or i)allid stripe in the basal half, becoming a sjainkling of blackish 

 dots beyond, sometimes found also more or less obscurely in the other 

 areas; wings moderately broad, hyaline, sometimes very feebly infu- 

 mated at the edge near the tij), the veins bluish fuscous apically and 

 anterioi'.y. Fore and middle legs only a little tumid in the male, 

 luteo testaceous tiecked with fuscous; hind femora luteo-testaceous, 

 twice barred above with blackish fuscous besides a basal spot, and 

 more or less deeply infuscated geniculation, the bars IiaV)le on the 

 middle of the outer face to fuse more or less completely into a 

 median stripe, which sometimes suffuses the whole face; lower face 

 sometimes feebly roseate; hind tibiae very feebly valgate, glaucous, 

 occasionally feebly infuscated, the base and tip feebly lutescent, with 

 a narrow postbasal fusco-glaucous annulus, the spines rather short, black 

 beyond their pallid bases, ten to eleven in number in the outer series. 

 Extremity of male abdomen slightly clavate, ui)turned but scarcely 

 recurved, the supraanal [)late ovate-triangular, broadest at some dis- 

 tance beyond the base, the sides broadly and gentlv uplifted, the eleva- 

 tion abruptly broken by a preapical lateral t^' ^rse sulcation, the 

 ai)ex acutangulate, the median sulcus occnpv ly the basal half, 



and very shallow and equal, except when, as o metmii j the apical i)or- 

 tion is much compressed; furcula consisting of a pair of long and slen- 

 der, equally tapering and acuminate, more or less flattened, slightly 

 divergent and very feebly arcuate lingers, somewhat less than half as 

 long as the supraanal ])late; cerci small, compressed, subequal. incurved, 

 lateral plates, gradually and rather slightly contracted mesially, the tip 



