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c. Alulas entirely pale. Species 1. 

 c c. Alulse edged with black. 



d. Thorax bright green above. Species 7. 



d d. Thorax with a whitish coat. Species 3-5. 

 a a. First joint of the antennae naked. Species 6. 



1. confinis, Ztt. d. s. 3090 (1849). Thorace aureo-vi7'idi, alulis 

 palUdis, metatarso postico spinuloso articulum secundum superante, caplLe 

 nigro, Mas. ; aut albicante, Teem. Long. 2-^ ; alar. 5 lin. 



Gilded-green. Head black in, male, whitish in female. Antenure of 

 male but little elongated. Alulce not edged loith black ; tlie fringe pale. 

 Abdomen of male silvery, with the sides of the second and l^ase of the 

 third segment yellow ; in the female the first segment and the sides of 

 the second tawny-yellow. Legs yellow ; middle cox?e grey outside ; 

 tarsi dusky at the tip; hind metatarsus longer than the foUowing joint, 

 and armed with some short spines, more evident in the male, in which 

 also the tip of the hind femora and tibire is dusky. 



Yery rare. In Mr. Walker's collection. (E.) 



2. diaphana, Fb. mnt. ii. 349. 82 (1787); Mg. ! Mq. ; Ztt.— 

 pellucens. Flu. — hirtipes, Ct. — Fcem. versicolor, Mg. Thorace obscure 

 viridi, scutello piibescente, capite nigro, Mas.; aut albicante, Fcem. Long, 

 3 ; alar. 6 lin. 



Head black in male, tchitish hi female. Antennae elongated in male, 

 arista apical in female. Thorax blackish-green (male) or dull brassy 

 (female), wath but little of a hoary shade above; sctddlnm pubescent ; 

 prosternum with three spines at each side. Subapical vein of the wing 

 very strongly sinuated. Alulae with broad black edge and black fringe. 

 Abdomen of male blackish, with silvery gloss, and a pale transparent 

 spot at each side of the second and third segments ; abdomen of female 

 dull brassy, with a shifting hoary gloss at the sides. Femora of the 

 male nearly black, anterior ones very hairy ; of the female yellowish, the 

 base of the anterior ones and the tip of the hind pair blackish ; tibiae 

 yellow, all of them spiny, the hind pair blackish at the tip ; anterior 

 tarsi yellow, dusky at the tip, hind pair entirely dusky ; fore metatar- 

 sus ciliated beneath in the male. 



Not rare. (E. S. I.) 



3. leucocephala, Mg. zw. iv. 49. 8 (1824); Mq. ; Zii.—fnlgens, 

 Hal. Thorace viridi-incano, alulis nigro-ciliatis, capite nigro, Mas. ; aut 

 albicante, Fcem. Long. 3 ; alar. 6 lin. 



Head black in male, whitish in female. Antennae of male but little 

 elongated, half as long as the arista. Thorax green, icith a hoary coat. 

 Alulce with black, edge and fringe. Abdomen of male silvery, with a 

 pale transparent spot at each side of the second, third, and often of the 

 fourth segment ; in female brassy-green with a yellow spot at each side 

 of the second segment. Femora dusky in male ; in female yellow with 



