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ZOOLOGY OF THE FAR EAST. 
band, outwardly margined with fuscous ; eyes blackish red, the facets with a silvery 
tint ; antennae hairy, fuscous, the basal half of the first joint much lighter ; first 
joint robust, bent slightly outwards, equal in length to the fourth, which is stout, 
rounded above, flat below and tapering towards the base and apex ; second and 
third joints each shorter than the first or fourth, subequal, slender at their bases and 
widening towards their apices. 
Underside of head pale ochraceous; rostrum long, robust, tapering apically and 
extending nearly to the intermediate coxae, stramineous, the apical joint black 
and shining. 
Pronotum fulvous, a number of black punctures arranged in an almost circular 
patch on the posterior area; a pale, medial, longitudinal carina on disk; lateral and 
posterior margins rounded; anterior margin concave; exocorium subtriangular, a 
strongly impressed black line extending from inner angle but not continued to the 
outer margin ; scutellum subquadrate basal margin concave, apical margin slightly 
Fig. I. — Microvelia {Kirkaldya) sexualis. 
I. Body of apterous male, x 17. 2. Fore tarsus of male, x 3. Middle leg of male X22J. 
4. Bodj- of immature female. x 17. 5. Pore tarsus of immature female. x22j. 
6. Middle tarsus of immature female, x 22^. 
sinuate in the centre, lateral angles rounded and clothed with short silvery pubes- 
cence, basal angles excavated ; four black punctures arranged in a square on 
disk. 
vSternum flavous, a curved row of contiguous punctures on the propleura, a spot 
on the mesopleura and a line at the junction of the meso- and metapleura black. 
Legs very hairy, especially the tibiae, stramineous ; femora and tibiae with 
slightly suffused markings ; apices of tarsi fuscous or black. 
Abdomen slightly darker than the thorax, apical margins of the dorsal segments 
slightly blackish, clothed with fine silvery hairs; flat above, narrowing posteriorly 
with six visible segments, connexivum almost perpendicular slightly sloping out- 
wards, similar in colour to the abdomen, a patch of silvery hairs at the basal angle. 
Underside of abdomen and connexivum, light yellowish covered with glistening hairs, 
the former convex below with a slight, central, longitudinal depression. Stigmata 
and a lateral spot at the base of each ventral segment black ; segmental margins nar- 
rowly fuscous. 
