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71. CONOCEPHALUS EEMOTUS. 



Mas et foem. Viridis, dense et suhlililer punc talus ; caput prothorace 

 valde brevius, fastigio conico; oviductus rectus, abdomine paullo 

 longior ; pedes graciles, femoribus anticis inermibus, femoribus 

 intermediis 7ionnunquam bispinosis ; alee anticce nigra subpunclata ; 

 aloe posticce diaphance, albo venosce. 

 Male and female. Grass-green. Head and prolhorax thickly and 

 minutely punctured. Head very much shorter than the prothorax ; fas- 

 tigium conical, less ihan half the length of the hinder part of the head, 

 rounded heneaih at the hase, where it approaches the dentate border of the 

 front. Prothorax with two more or less distinct yellowish stripes on the 

 well-defined lateral keels; fore border, hind border and sides nearly straight 

 in the middle. Prosiernum with two long slender spines. Oviduct straight, 

 a little longer than the abdomen. Legs slender; four anterior femora un- 

 armed or with two minute spines near the tips of the middle femora ; the 

 other parts as usual. Fore wings much lunger than the body, a little longer 

 than the hind wings, occasionally with a few black points. Hind wings 

 pellucid ; veins white. Length of the body 12 — 13 lines ; expansion of the 

 lore wings 33 — 36 lines. 



a—c. Sandwich Isles. Presented by Capt. Beechey. 

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Country unknown. 



72. CoNOCEPHALUS ACANTHOCERUS. 



acanthocerus, Haan, Verz. Nat. Gesch. Ned. Ind. Bez. Ins. 212. 



73. CoNOCEPHALUS NOBILIS. 



Foem. Viridis, dense punc talus ; caput prothorace brevius,fastigio longi- 

 conico^ fronte linea inter oculos transversa fusca, margine antico 

 nigro ; mandibulcE nigrce ; abdomen fuscescens ; oviductus testaceus, 

 subarcuatus, abdomine paullo longior; pedes robusti, femoribus 

 anlerioribus spinosis ; alee poslicte diaphance, albo venosce. 



Female. Pale green, stout, testaceous beneath. Head and prothorax 

 thickly punctured. Head somewhat shorter than the prothorax ; fastigium 

 elongate-conical, shorter than the hinder part of the head, obtusely angular 

 beneath at its b;tse ; front with a brown transverse line between the eyes 

 and with a black band on the fore border; labrum mostly piceous. 

 Mandibles black. Prothorax with a slight transverse furrow ; fore border, 

 sides and hind border nearly straight in the middle. Prosternum with two 

 long slender spines ; mesosternum with two elongate-conical lol)es ; meta- 

 sternum with two triangular lobes. Abdomen brownish. Oviduct testa- 

 ceous, slightly curved, a little longer than the abdomen. Legs stout ; fore 

 femora with three minute spines on the inner side and with two on the outer 

 side; middle femora with three or four on the outer side; the other paiis 

 as usual. Fore wings much longer thou the body, a little longer than the 

 hind wings, which are pellucid and have white veins. Length of the body 

 22 lines; expansion of the fore wings 64 lines. 



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