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form, markedly inclined anteriorly, with vertical indistinct dark 

 stripes. Ocelli nearer to each other than to the eyes. Antennae 

 concealed under the head. Rostrum short, stout, barely visible, 

 reaching anterior coxae and concealed by them from the side; 

 first segment shortest, ringlike, second longest, third conical, 

 shorter. Prothorax more than two and one-half times as long as 

 broad, anterior and posterior margins sinuate; anterior margin 

 about as broad as head with eyes ; disk tumid with distinct promi- 

 nences ; transverse indentation twice as far from anterior as from 

 posterior margin; with an oblong median tumefication, at each 

 extremity of which is a large (compared with the others) black 

 tubercle ; posterior margin deeply indented above scutellum, 

 longitudinally tumid, but somewhat smoother than disk; lateral 

 margins broad, foliaceous, posterior three-fourths rounded and 

 convergent anteriorly, faintly denticulate, anterior one-fourth 

 subparallel but with a distinct anterior convergence, nearly straight, 

 denticulate ; anterior pronotal angles with nearly straight, smooth 

 anterior margins ; posterior pronotal angles more or less rounded ; 

 edges of presternum granulate, but otherwise smooth, broadly 

 triangularly projecting sternally, antero-lateral edge somewhat 

 reflexed to cover coxae. First pair of legs shortest, femora very 

 stout, shorter than tibia and tarsus taken together, grooved, edges 

 of groove spinose ; anterior coxae long, stout, nearly as stout as 

 femora; tarsus seemingly one-jointed, shorter than long double 

 slender anterior claws, which are longer than the claws of the 

 other legs. Scutellum wider than long, tumid, with a trifid raised 

 portion in lines. 



Hemelytra with lamellate anterior corial margin with nearly 

 smooth edges ; clavus distinct, with a curved interior vein ter- 

 minating posteriorly in a small group of white tubercles ; corium 

 with a single curved vein, evanescent medially ; corium impercept- 

 ibly merging into the narrow membrane, which is veinless but 

 reticulately wrinkled ; the usual three single large white tubercles 

 in the distal part of the corium in a broken line running out from 

 the end of the clavus. 



Second pair of legs longer than first ; coxae large, femora about 

 three times as thick as the tibiae, tapering distally ; tibiae shorter 

 than femora, of equal thickness throughout, tarsi seemingly one- 

 jointed. 



Mesosternum of equal width throughout, anterior and posterior 

 margins subparallel, median tongue broad-triangular, sloping, 

 rounded at tip, dentate. 



Metasternum laterally triangular, produced posteriorly, leaving 

 the margin of the fourth abdominal segment exposed as a triangle 

 and the apex passing the suture between the third and fourth, 

 broadly emarginate for the reception of the posterior coxae and 

 triangularly projecting between them, edges dentate except at 

 emarginations. 



