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MACROPODIA*. 
Inacnus, Fabricii. 
Cancer, Herbst. 
Masa, Bosc. 
Macropus, Laireille. 
Lerropopia, Leach. 
Macropopia, Leach. 
CHARACTER GENERICUS. 
Testa sub-triangularis parce spinosa antice rostro longo, 
fisso terminata ; ocwli distantes subreniformes pedunculo 
multo crassiores; antenne exteriores corporis dimidio 
longiores articulo secundo primo triplo longiore; inte- 
riores in clypei medio foveolis longitudinalibus recepte ; 
pedipalpi gemini externi tenues caule interno biarticu- 
lato, articulis longitudine subaqualibus ; palpi 3-articu- 
lati, hirsutissimi, articulis medio breviore, tertio primo 
paululum longiore, 
“Pedes decem: par anticum didactylum, (Maris corpore 
duplo longius ; manubus elongato-subovatis, compressis ; 
carpis manubus duplo brevioribus, angulatis; brachiis 
manuum longitudine angulatis); Paria 4-postica, lon- 
gissima, tenuissima; ungues 4-antici ad apicem arcuati, 
A-postici ad basin abrupte curvati. 
Abdomen 6-articulatum, tuberculato-subcarinatum segmen- 
to ultimo longiore. 
* Thunberg having applied to a natural genus of insects the term 
Macropus, I found it necessary to substitute the above name for this 
genus, which was instituted by Latreille, 
