Mallop/uii^^a from Hinis of Costa Rica, Central America 6g 



occij^ital margin concave, with four hairs, and a narrow, mar- 

 gina!, pitchy border; a pitchy brown submarg^inal band ahnost 

 entirely around the front of the head ; mandible small, pointed ; 

 two broad brown bands starting from the frontal band at the 

 ]/aIpi, extend backward past the bases of the mandibles, around 

 the inside of the pitchy ocular blotches, and backward to the 

 occipital margin, their posterior portions spreading out laterally 

 along the temi)le ; lateral portion of temples clear ; region out- 

 side of the pitchy, curving, ocular blotches, deep brown ; a large 

 black ocular fleck, nearly obscuring the large clear eye ; a large 

 deep brown blotch with a clear circular center nearly fills the 

 median occipital region. 



Prothorax large, with lateral angles produced and broadly 

 rounded, with two spines ; whole margin posterior to lateral an- 

 gle's evenly rounded, with five long hairs on each side ; lateral 

 wings deep clear brown ; a pitchy band runs inward from lateral 

 angles for a short distance along the antero-lateral margin, then 

 curves backward nearly across the segment ; narrow pitchy 

 l)ands run diagonally backward from the anterior angles to the 

 median portion of segment ; a narrow, sinuate, transverse band ; 

 a triangular, median brown blotch. Metathorax short, broad, 

 with nearly straight, widely diverging sides, and flatly rounded 

 posterior margin, set with numerous short hairs ; posterior an- 

 gles with two longish hairs ; pitchy bands around anterior angles, 

 curving backward across segment ; heavier pitchy bands running 

 diagonally backward and inward, from anterior angles to middle 

 of segment ; narrower pitchy bands curving backward and in- 

 ward from lateral margins, across the segment as far as the 

 middle of segment two of abdomen ; a deep smoky brown band 

 across posterior portion of segment. Legs long and stout, with 

 swollen femora, and tibiae slightly enlarged at tips, concolorous 

 with body, and furnished with numerous short marginal hairs. 



Abdomen very large, a jierfect oval, with lateral, posterior 

 angles acute, but scarcely projecting, and furnished with one long 

 hair and a bristle in segments one to eight ; ninth large, rounded 

 behind, with three long hairs on each side and a fringe of fine 

 hairs between ; posterior margin of segments one to eight with 



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