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and thickly covered with short, depressed, gray hairs. The two 

 anterior eyes which are situated on the front surface are very small, 

 those of the second pair placed near the edges of the thorax are 

 the largest, and the posterior, arranged in a curve, are of median 

 6ize. 



The falces are long, pyramidal, thick at their base, becoming 

 gradually thinner towards their ends ; they are of the same green 

 colour as the thorax which has, below and externally on each side 

 where the falces are articulated, a small brown spot at the edge ; the 

 claws of the falces are comparatively very small and pale brown. 



The lip is green, long, narrow, with an attenuated and pointed ter- 

 mination ; it is a little shorter than the maxilla?, and these again a 

 little shorter than the mandibles. The maxillas are dilated at the 

 base where the palpi are inserted on the outer side, somewhat con- 

 tracted in the middle and again slightly broader at their ends, which 

 from a pale green gradually pass into a brownish hue. The palpi 

 are thin, provided with short black hairs. 



The sternum is grass green, small, depressed, somewhat heart-shaped, 

 being anteriorly slightly indented. The legs are pale green, with 

 numerous scattered black hairs which, as likewise those on the 

 sternum, originate from smaller or larger blackish tubercles ; they 

 become much longer on the tibias and tarsi, than they are on the femora. 

 The first pair of feet is the longest, the second comes next, but it only 

 slightly differs in length ; then comes the fourth and at last the third, 

 which is also only a little shorter than the fourth. The inferior central 

 portions of the femora of the first pair are distinctly carmine red, and 

 a slight tinge of this colour is also observable on the femora of the 

 second pair. The ends of all the tarsi become brownish and each 

 terminate with two short black claws. 



The abdomen is pyramidal, distinctly separated from the body, 

 mostly elevated at its anterior end, and partially covering the thorax, 

 broadest near the middle and then very gradually tapering posteriorly 

 to a point, on which the anal appendages slightly project. It is of a 

 uniform yellowish or sometimes bright green colour, with some lateral 

 stripes or corrugations posteriorly, extending over the whole breadth 

 of the abdomen. About one-fifth distant from the anterior end is a 

 silvery white, horse shoe shaped mark, formed of four somewhat raised 



