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pedicel that is about twice as long as thick, three transverse but quite distinct 

 ring joints, five cylindrical and subequal funicle joints and a solid club, the 

 five funicle joints each very nearly one and one-half times as long as broad, 

 the club longer than the two preceding joints, cylindrical at base but tapering 

 to a long sharp point at apex. Thorax ovoid, narrowed behind ; pronotum 

 transverse, conical, viewed from above mostly declivous, distinctly sculptured 



Figure 25. — CaJUtula bicolor Spinola : A, Adult female ; B, antenna of female ; C, adult 

 male ; D, antenna of male. A and G, X 30. 



except a narrow border along the posterior margin which is smooth ; mesoscu- 

 tum fully twice as broad as long, higher than the pronotum, strongly reticulate- 

 punctate like the vertex, the parapsidal grooves not at all impressed ; scutellum 

 as long as mesoscutum, and similarly but a little more finely sculptured, sub- 

 convex, with a broad base on mesoscutum, the axillae widely separated and 

 sculptured like scutellum ; propodeum narrowed at apex into a very prominent 



