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and all tlie rest decreasing in length and substance. 
Thorax oval, densely pubescent, which conceals its 
divisions; metathorax truncated; wings with three 
submarginal cells, closed, the second receives the first 
recurrent nervure in its centre, and the third, which 
bulges externally, receives the second at its extremity; 
legs setose, the exterior of the posterior tibiae and 
plantae moderately so, and the interior of the latter also 
densely setose; the second joint of the posterior tarsi 
inserted beneath and within the termination of their 
plantse; the claw joint longer than the two preceding; 
claws bifid, the inner tooth distant from the external. 
Abdomen ovate, subpubescent, the fifth segment densely 
fimbriated and the terminal segment with an emarginate 
appendage. 
In the males the antennse are very similar, but the 
mandibles are more acutely bidentate, and with the 
exception of the form of the legs, the general aspect is 
like the female; the legs, although setose, are less con¬ 
spicuously so, the intermediate tarsi in the first section 
of the genus being longer than the rest of the entire leg, 
and are fringed externallv with very long hair, or it is 
restricted to the plantse of that leg and then it is short 
and very rigid ; the entire limb stretched out extends 
beyond the widest expansion of the superior wings. 
The abdomen is also less retuse than in the female, at 
its basal segment. 
In the second division of this genus, of which Antlio- 
phora furcata may be considered to be the type, the 
general habit is precisely the same, but the insects are 
not so pubescent, and there is a greater similarity be¬ 
tween the sexes. The intermediate legs also, although 
long in the male, are not so extremely long as they are 
in the first section. 
