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and legs rufous; body beneath dull reddish yellow with the slender 

 sutures and an abbreviated line between them within the stigmata, 

 brown. Above the margins of the abdomen are broadly exposed 

 beyond the elytra, brown, inclined to chestnut toward the margins, 

 and strongly pitted near the incisures. The scutellun) is propor- 

 tionately longer and more impressed each side at tip than in metati- 

 buiida. This is slightly smaller and a very different insect from 

 Edessa Petersi of Distant. . The latter is much more convex, less 

 strongly and thickly punctured above, with blunter pronotal angles, 

 a shorter and wider scutellum, and the edge of the abdomen is much 

 lesss strongly toothed. The color too is very different. I possess 

 one specimen, certainly Petersi, from Mexico. 



Edessa metatibunda Thunbg. — Two examples, taken in May. 

 This species seems to be more abundant in Brazil. 



Edessa corallipes Erich. — One examjjle, taken June 28th, 

 seems to answer perfectly to Erichson's short description. It is a 

 little smaller than the preceding, of a rich chestnut brown, showing 

 in some lights a coppery green reflection on the head, pronotum and 

 scutellum. The pronotum and scutellum are remotely and deeply 

 punctured. . The humeral angles are sharp but less produced than 

 in quadrldens, apex of the scutellum broader than in quadridens and 

 rather more strongly impressed before the acute tip. The elytra are 

 dull, almost yellowish brown, with an obsolete darker patch before 

 the middle, behind which is an indistinct paler Y-shaped mark on 

 the nervures ; legs light rufous ; antennae paler. 



Piezosternum subulatum Fabr. — Two examples, taken in 

 May. 



Discocera ochrocyanea Lep. — A very pretty species of which 

 there is one specimen in this lot. May 6th. This disagrees with the 

 description of Amyot and Serville in having the deep blue disk of 

 the pronotum divided by a longitudinal line. 



Family COREIDiE. 



Spathophora biclavata Fabr. — Three examples of this large 

 showy insect were taken in April, May and September. 



Pachylis nervosus Dall. — April and May, three examples. 



Molchina compressicornis Fabr. — A magnificent species of 

 which one specimen was taken on May 7th. 



