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fore margin almost straight. Temporal foveolae elongate, trapezoidal, their upper 

 and hind margins raised and sharp, the front and lower margins obtuse and 

 interrupted by punctures. Fastigium of the vertex sloping, rotundato-hexagonal, 

 scarcely longer than broad, with the apex rotundato-truncate, margins sharp. 

 Occiput convex. Pronotum slightly longer than the head, feebly but distinctly 

 constricted in its middle ; its maximum width distinctly less than that of the head ; 

 in profile the pronotum is perfectly straight above ; the whole fore margin, except 

 in the lower parts of the lateral lobes, distinctly incrassate, embracing the head 

 like a collar; the first transverse sulcus reaches but does not interrupt the median 

 keel ; the second sulcus reaches halfway between the sides of the disc and the 

 keel ; the third sulcus placed scarcely before the middle of the pronotum, cutting 

 the median keel ; metazona distinctly punctured in the disc, as well as in the 

 lateral lobes, which are smooth in the prozona ; hind angle of the disc obtusely 

 rounded. Lateral lobes of the pronotum impressed a little below and behind the 

 middle; higher than long ; their fore margin slightly sinuate; the lower margin 

 with an obtusely rounded angle in the middle ; hind margin almost straight; the 

 fore angle very obtuse, rounded ; hind angle a little more than 90°, rounded. 

 Elytra extending just a little beyond the hind knees ; mediastinal area dilated (its 

 widest part is at the apex of the basal third), extending over two-thirds of the 

 whole length of the fore margin, with a rather feeble false vein which does not 

 reach the apex of the area; scapular area as wide as the mediastinal, callous and 

 not transparent in the basal half, with sparse reticulation and an irregular, 

 interrupted false vein ; discoidal area parallel-sided, with the intercalate vein 

 approaching apically to the radial vein ; interulnar area nearly twice as broad, in 

 its widest part, as the discoidal, with an irregular false vein. Hind femora short, 

 rather broad, though less dilated than in A. strepens, with the apex scarcely 

 attenuate. Hind tibiae slightly shorter than the femora. Supra-anal plate 

 elongato-rotundate, with a basal longitudinal impression. Cerci cylindrical, 

 rather thick, very slightly incurved, with the apex obtuse. Subgenital plate 

 very obtuse. 



General coloration dull greyish-buff, with not well defined blackish design. 

 Fastigium of the vertex with indefinite blackish points and blackened margins ; 

 occiput with two scarcely perceptible blackish longitudinal fasciae, which run 

 from the hind angles of the fastigium gradually diverging and fading towards 

 pronotum ; a second pair of black fasciae is behind the eyes. Eyes buff with a small 

 blackish spot behind the apex. Disc of the pronotum greyish-buff ; the X-shaped 

 design yellowish in its middle and light orange in its fore and hind parts, rather 

 broad, especially so in metazona, and very irregularly marginated from both the 

 inside and the outside by diffused blackish fasciae ; lateral lobes buff, merging into 

 dark grey upwards, with a small blackish spot in the middle, somewhat orange to- 

 wards the bind margin. Elytra greyish buff, hyaline apically, an elongate brown 

 spot in the basal half of the mediastinal area ; scapular area sulphurous basally ; 

 discoidal area with a few scattered small brown spots in two groups — one near the 

 base and the second, which consists of confluent spots, at the apex ; a larger, 

 elongate blackish spot just beyond the apex of the discoidal area, emitting a short 

 branch towards the fore margin, across the scapular area but not extending into 

 the mediastinal area ; the apical part of the elytra with a few very pale grey spots. 

 Wings hyaline, with the apex scarcely infumate. Hind femora on the outside 

 buff, with three very feeble grey bands and a blackish line along the middle of the 

 basal half of the externo-median area; the inside pale with a small black spot at 

 the upper part of the base and two black tranverse fasciae, the second of which is 

 narrower than the first one ; the lower sulcus sanguineous, with a narrow black 

 fascia, corresponding to the second inner fascia, and with the apical part pale ; 

 the knees black all round. Hind tibiae pale, with the base and a ring at the end of 

 the basal third black; the apex reddish, slightly blackened beneath; the spines 

 pale with black apical halves. 



