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MICTIS CRUCIFERA: 
M. fuscescens; antennis article extinio, dorsoque 
macula decussata flavicantibus: femoribus anterio- 
ribus subtus bispinulosis. 
Habitat in Australasia frequens. 
CROSS-BEARING MICTIS. 
Brownish; last joint of the antennz and a cross- shaped 
mark on the back yellow; four anterior thighs with two 
small spines beneath. 
Inhabits New Holland, where it is not uncommon. 
The upper figure represents the male insect, which is - 
distinguished from the other sex by the more acute expan- 
sion of the hinder shanks, and by three elevations on the 
under side of the base of the abdomen; the whole animal 
too is narrower, as in most other male insects. 
