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side beyond coxae I, and extending up to the middle of the length 
of the base of the rostrum; .cervical grooves deep, converging at first, 
then diverging, becoming wide and shallow ; lateral grooves beginning 
just behind the eyes, and widening as they proceed caudad ; eyes black, 
hemispherical, shining, in a sub-marginal pit near the anterior 
quarter ; punctuations numerous, unequal, scattered over all the 
surface, large and abundant near margins; a few very short hairs, 
sometimes three posterior grooves, the median longer, eleven posterior 
marginal festoons ; the median inclined to be triangular ; two dorsal 
porose areas, one on each side and close to the median line, near 
middle of length of shield, dark coloured and difficult to see. Ventral 
surface yellowish white or brownish; numerous short hairs; sexual 
orifice opposite first inter-coxal space; anus near posterior third, 
opposite stigmatic plates ; anal plates of a deep brown, more or less 
elongate, narrow, outer margin reaching almost to level of anterior 
margin of stigmatic plates, inner margins longer than posterior, and 
slightly concave, posterior margin truncate; punctuations few, large, 
a few stout whitish hairs; outside of each anal plate and separated 
from it by the coxal groove, is a very narrow elongate, accessory 
plate, chitinous only in its caudal third ; opposite and behind each 
anal plate is a conicle prominence, chitinous, dark brown, some- 
times passing beyond the posterior margin; stigmatic plates in the 
form of a very elongate comma, the posterior extremity of which 
nearly reaches and sometimes passes beyond the level of the extremity 
of the. accessory anal plates; an o- marginal groove wel] marked. 
Rostrum elongate; base much wider than long; posterior angles 
sc rcely salient ; lateral edges convex ; a few large punctuations on 
dorsal surface, sometimes in a transverse line; mandibles with inner 
apophysis narrow at base, with tip slightly recurved, transverse 
process a little below anterior extremity bearing two teeth, the lower 
slightly larger than the upper; outer apophysis with two teeth, lower 
one stronger, hypostome spatula; te, rounded at tip with numerous 
denticles, then three rows of ten to twelve teeth on each half, sharply 
pointed, outer row longer, below these the teeth are squamiform 
in three rows extending almost to the base ; palpi elongate, narrow, 
valvate ; article I with dorsal face a half shorter than ventral face, 
which is prolonged on the inner edge in a longitudinal apophysis, 
longer than the article, inner edge bears long hairs directed inward 
and forward; article II a little shorter than article III on the ventral 
surface, prolonged on its dorsal surface into an obtuse, flat point, 
fitting over article I, long hairs on the inner margin of articles II 
and III; article III as long as wide; article IV very small, a mere 
hairy papilla in a ventral pit of article III. Legs long and stout, 
pair IV passing beyond the posterior end of abdomen by the last two 
articles or less; articles III, IV, and V reddish brown, ringed with 
whitish on distal halves; tarsi I unarmed, a false terminal article 
in .form of a truncate cone, widened behind false articulation; those 
of' other legs with parallel sides, gradually attenuated on their dorsal 
margins, two short, stout spines; tarsi IV at least four times as long 
as wide ; caruncle short, reaching scarcely half the length of the 
claws ; coxae large, almost contiguous, dark brown, coxae I divided 
into two long teeth, the inner shorter and wider, a tuberosity near the 
postero-external angle of coxae II and III ; one on each posterior 
angle of coxae IV. 
