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slight keels ; face lanceolate, with a slight middle keel. Thorax with 

 three slight keels. Prothorax conical. Mesothorax short. Abdomen 

 broader and rather longer than the thorax. Legs furrowed, rather long ; 

 hind tibiae spinose. Wings rather long. Fore wings with very numerous 

 veins and veinlets over the whole surface, the transverse veinlets towards 

 the tips of the wings more regular than those elsewhere. Hind wings with 

 Bumerous veins and veinlets ; the latter partly regular, partly irregular. 



This genus seems to replace in South America the Asiatic genus 

 Dichoptera. 



ECHETRA SEMILUTEA. 



Viridis, teslaceo nigroqtte varia ; frons et fades nigrcB ; abdomen luteum, 

 apice margineque nigris ; pedes virides, nigra fasciati ; alee anticcB 

 viridescentes, semihyalince, ex parte fusco nebulosa, fasciis tribus 

 {^tcna maculari) nigris; postica vitrece, basi virides, apice sub- 

 luridcB. 



Dull green, varied with testaceous and black. Front and face wholly 

 black. Abdomen luteous, black at the tip, and with a black border above. 

 Legs green, with black bands. Fore wings greenish, semihyaline, partly 

 clouded with brown, and with three very irregular black bands; apical band 

 macular. Hind wings vitreous, green at the base, with a lurid tinge at the 

 tips; veins black. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 



Hindostan. 



Genus DICTYOPHORA, Germar. 



DiCTYOPHORA NODIVENA. 



Mas et fcem. Viridis aut testacea ; prothoracis cornu Iricarinatum, apice 

 fuscum, capitis latitudine non longius ; prothorax tricarinatus, valde 

 arcuatus ; mesothorax tricarinatus ; ala vitrece, venis viridibus 

 apice fuscis ; anticce venulis no7innllis transversis fusco nebulosis. 



Male and female. Green, or testaceous. Protuberance of the head 

 conical, quadrilateral, not longer than the breadth of the head, with three 

 keels, brown at the lip ; under side with three keels, the lateral pair con- 

 verging towards the front, where they cease. Prothorax much arched, 

 with an in)pression on each side, and with three keels, the lateral pair 



