NO. 1124. uErisKiX or the Mi:LAX(fi'Li—scri>i)Eii. 347 



ingr apically infuscated, about tLree fourth a (male) or two thirds (female) 

 as long as the hind femora; clypeus, labruni and base of njandibles 

 mottled like the face, the labrum edjjed with bhuk; palpi pallid, 

 streaked exteriorly with i)urplisli brown, the last Joint tipped witli 

 puri)lish black. Pronotum siibequal, feebly and rejrularly eidarging 

 posteriorly, the upper portion of the lateral lobes with abroad piceous 

 band, occasionally obsolete, crossing the ])rozoiia, l)elow wliuh the 

 lateral lobes have the mottling of the fac<*; disk nearly i)iane, sepa- 

 rated from the vertical lateral lobes by a bluntly angulate shoulder, 

 almost forming a lateral carina; median carina distinct on the meta- 

 zona, subobsolete on the prozona; front margin subtruncate, hind 

 margin feebly obtusangulate, the angle rounded: prozona longitudi- 

 nal (male) or quadrate (female), distinctly (male) or scarcely (female) 

 longer than the closely punctate metazona. Prostcrnal spine short, 

 blunt, conical, a little stouter in the female than in tlrj male and 

 apj)ressed; interspace between mesosternal lobes ab(mt half as long 

 again as broad (male) or transverse but much narrower than the lobes 

 (female). Tegmina extending backward about as far as the hind 

 femora, with rlight variation, moderately broad, distinctly tapering, 

 brownish fuscous, not infre<[uently somewhat cinereous, sprinkled with 

 delicate fuscous maculation along the discoidal area; wings not very 

 broad, hyaline, sometimes with a scarcely perceptible yellowish tinge to 

 the anal area, the veins fuscous apically and anteriorly so as almost to 

 give the tip an infumated a])pearance. Fore and middle legs tumes- 

 cent in the male, mottled with the colors of the face; hind femora 

 alternately marked externally with faint puri)lish brown, dark brown 

 and very pale i)ur])lish, the inferioi' carina yellowish bordered with 

 white, the under surface yellowish; hind tibiae coral red with a basal 

 black annulation, the si)ines tipped with black, eleven to fourteen in 

 number in the outer series; tarsi of all the legs marked with fuscous 

 deepening into black, the hind tarsi also with red. Extremity of male 

 abdomen clavate, a little recurved, the supraanal i)late triangular 

 with convex sides and rectangulate tip the lateral margins feebly 

 elevated, the median sulcus as in the preceding species but with rather 

 less prominent walls; furcula present only as slight swellings of the 

 inner extremities of the mesially parted lateral halves of the last dorsal 

 segment; cerci pale brownish compresse<l laminae, consisting of a gently 

 tapering basal half, a little tumid, straight and scarcely twice as long 

 as the basal breadth, and a bifurcate apical half, the forks at a little 

 less than a right angle to each other, equally divergent from the basal 

 half, the lower slight and subaculeate, hardly so long as the mesial 

 breadth of the stem, the upper equal or subspatulate, fully half as 

 broad and nearly as long as the stem, incurved, subsulcate and apically 

 rounded; subgenital plate pale yellowish brown, broad, about as broad 

 as long, the apical margin broadly rounded, entire, sometimes subangu- 

 late laterally, a little thickened but not raised above the lateral margin 



