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and three white spots at the apex—the inner one lunate, the others rounded ; the body, legs, and antenn»w 
very finely pubescent, and also thickly clothed with long, fine, pallid hairs ; the pleura, a spot at the sides 
of each of the ventral segments, a triangular mark on each side of the pronotum anteriorly, and a spot on 
both the anterior and posterior sides of each of the femora towards the base, clothed with short silvery 
pubescence. Head with a smooth, faintly impressed median line; the eyes large and coarsely faceted, 
reaching the anterior margin of the pronotum; the antenne long and slender, joint 1 stouter, and fully 
one-half longer, than 2, 2-4 subequal in length, 3 and 4 very slender. Pronotum distinctly punctured, 
rounded at the apex behind; the junction between the anterior and posterior lobes indicated by four 
transversely placed punctures and a triangular lateral depression. Legs comparatively stout, rather 
short; the intermediate tarsi with joint 2 much longer than 3; posterior femora and trochanters very 
minutely denticulate on their inner edge in the male, and faintly so in the female. 
3. Sixth ventral segment deeply arcuate-emarginate at the apex. 
Apterous form. Pronotum abbreviated and subtruncate behind; the elytra sometimes represented by a pair of 
small white wing-pads; the dorsal surface of the abdomen fuscous, the terminal two or three segments 
more or less clothed with glistening silvery pubescence. 
Length 4-5, breadth (of the pronotum in the winged form) 1,®, millim. (¢d 9.) 
Hab. Norta America (Mus. Brit.)—Muxico (Mus. Vind. Ces., ex coll. Signoret) ; 
GUATEMALA, Paso Antonio, San Joaquin in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, near the city 
(Champion).—Braziu!; ANTILLES, Grenada ?. 
Of this species we possess a winged pair and one apterous female from Panama, and 
two apterous males from Guatemala, these agreeing with Stal’s V. brachialis and with 
the Grenada specimens named JV. stagnalis by Prof. Uhler. There is also a winged 
male from Mexico in the Vienna Museum. They differ from one of Burmeister’s types 
of V. stagnalis, an apterous female, communicated by the Berlin Museum, in having 
a much longer second joint to the intermediate tarsi (joints 2 and 3 being equal in 
length in V. stagnalis), and larger and more coarsely faceted eyes (the eyes in V. stagnalis 
do not reach the front of the pronotum). ‘The apterous specimens are also less parallel 
than the type of V. stagnalis before me, and have the pronotum less produced behind. 
The posterior femora are not thickened in the male; the denticulation is so fine as to 
be scarcely visible, except in immature examples. Stal’s type, a male example without 
antenne, is now before me. The two apterous North-American specimens in the British 
Museum were collected and presented by E. Doubleday. 
2. Velia annulipes, n. sp. (Tab. IX. figg. 8, apterous ¢; 8a, abdomen from 
beneath, ¢.) 
Velia annulipes, Signoret, in litt. 
Apterous form. 3. Moderately elongate, robust, fusiform, the body and antenne obscure ferruginous, the 
pleura and sterna blackish, the venter fuscous; the legs flavous, annulated with reddish-brown ; the coxe 
and trochanters flavous; the body, legs, and antenne very finely pubescent, and also clothed with longer, 
fine, pallid hairs; the base of the abdomen above, the pleura, and venter greyish-pruinose; the three 
terminal dorsal segments of the abdomen, the pleura, the sides of the venter, and an indistinct triangular 
space on each side of the pronotum anteriorly, with patches of glistening silvery pubescence. Head with 
a smooth, faintly impressed median line; the eyes large and coarsely faceted, reaching the anterior margin 
of the pronotum ; the antenne long and slender, joint 1 stouter than, and nearly twice as long as, 2, 2and 3 
subequal in length (4 broken off). Pronotum longitudinally carinate in the middle anteriorly, distinctly 
