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sulcus, by the eyes j^ninulosc^, in the niidtlle bcliiiul the sulcus bigranulose, summu of the vertex 

 truncate in the midtUe and on each side l)y the eye elevated into a conic tubercle with mucronate 

 apex. Pronotum oval, little longer than broad, anterior, posterior and lateral margins rotundate, 

 narrowed posteriorly, armed upon lateral margins with numerous triangular spines, disk stronglv 

 granose, on the prozona an elevated tumescence limited b\' a circular sulcus is present, the tumescence 

 armed on each side with a longitudinal series ot three large very acute granules; portion of the prono- 

 tum posterior to the transverse sulcus strongh- medio-longitudinall\- sulcate, two low rounded tubercles 

 placed before the posterior margin (çf) or with an additional median pair of the same (9)- Tegmina in 

 male much longer than the abdomen, elliptical, apex acute, densely venose, sublnaline ; in female 

 short ovate, reaching only to the middle of the abdomen, coriaceous, costal and humeral sub-tuber- 

 culate. Wings hardly longer than the tegmina, tessellate. Limbs carinate, pilose. Anterior coxa,' hardh" 

 longer than the pronotum, robust, triquetrous, internal face granulöse, inferior margin spinose; anterior 

 femora somewhat incrassate, the external face granose in the middle, the margins distincth' carinate. 

 the internal margin with thirteen spines besides the apical, external margin with live spines including 

 the apical, discoidal spines four in number; anterior tibi;e robust, dorsal margin arcuate, ciliate. armed 

 exteriorly with six, internalh' with nine spines. Median and posterior femora dorsalh and ventrall}- 

 carinate. armed with a genicular spine; median and posterior tibife carinate. 



Geographical distribution of species. — • A single species is known from Tropical Afiica. 

 I. J. radiosa. (jiglio-Tos, Boll. Mus. Zoo]. Anat. Comp. Torino, \"ol. 22. Upper Zambesi, 

 no. 363, p. 14 (1907). — Plate, Fig. 8, 9. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 

 (Figures 1-7 and 10 natural size, S. 9 and 11 twice natural size.i 



Fig. I. Cardidptera brachyptera [Buvme'istev). çf . 



— 2. Parastagmatoptera serricoi'uis, Kirb}^, çf. 



— 3. Pseiidempusa pinna-pavonis, ^xunnev \on \\'2L{ien\\\\, 9 (after Brunner von Wattenwyl). 



— 4. Zoolea lobipes (Olivier), 9- 



— 5. Stagmatoptera supplicaria, Burmeister, 9- 



— 6. Popa spurca, Stal, 9- 



— 7. Phyllovates stolli [Sanssmti (s. Zehuiner), 9- 



— 8. Jalla radiosa, Giglio-Tos. dorsum of pronotum of 9 • 



— g. Jalla radiosa, Giglio-Tos, lateral outline of pronotum of 9- 



— 10. Daiiiiria tinmbergi, Stal, anterior limb of . 



— II. Oxyopsis lobder, Kehn, head of 9 (after Rehn). 



Philadelphia, S. A., 15^'' April 1911. 



