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this character it differs more than Actina from most of the species of 

 Beris. 



A. opposiTA. Walker, I.e., Supp.,]}. 13 (1854). 



Antennae tawny, black towards the tips. Palpi pale yellow. 

 Thorax bright bluish-green, with whitish down ; scutellum with 

 testaceous spines. Abdomen testaceous; segments black along the 

 hind borders, and with a triangular black spot on each side ; tip black. 

 Legs testaceous ; tips of the hind femora brown ; hind tibiae brown, 

 with a tawny middle band. Wings limpid ; stigma testaceous. 



Length, 3 lines. 



Auckland (Colonel Bolton). 



aenus-EXAIRETA. 

 Schiner. 



Head semi-circular, front broad in both sexes, and small. 

 Antennae sunk in tl;e head ; first and second joints rather long, the 

 second shorter ; the third very long, with ten rings, of which the first 

 is the largest ; the end rings so close that they are difficult to dis- 

 tinguish ; a few bristles on the point, but no style. Proboscis pro- 

 truding, lips erect. Palpi small, three-jointed (?) ; penultimate joint 

 thickened at the end ; the last short, cylindrical, with a blunt point. 

 Face flat ; front with two long streaks ; protuberance with three distant, 

 rather elevated, punctures. Thorax slightly curved. Sciitellum large, 

 elevated posteriorly, margin with four long spines. Abdomen more 

 than twice the length of the thorax, flat, with seven segments. 

 Genitalia small ; male with two small style-like flaps ; female with a 

 small, terminal, elevated lamella. Legs slender; posterior femora 

 lengthened, strong, clavate ; metatarsi longer than the other members 

 together ; posterior tibiae thick and plump. Pulvilli three, large. 

 Wings naked ; mediastinal and subcostal veins only separated in front ; 

 cubital vein ends in the rim of the wing, shortly forked ; discoidal cell 

 seven-cornered ; in front there are four veins ending on the rim of the 

 wing, therefore there are five posterior cells. Poiscrs large, with a 

 broad head. 



E. spiNiGER. Weidemann, Ausser-euroj)dische ziveifiugelige Insecten, 

 II., p. 618 (Xylophagus) , (1880). B. servilki : Maequart, 

 Bipt. Exot., l.,p. 172, y. 21,/. 1 (1838). 



Head hemispherical, depressed in both sexes. Palpi blackish, the 

 last joint forming an angle with the first, salient, perpendicular to the 



