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anlicas pallide luteas includenle ; abilnmen (uteo marginatum ; femora 

 setosa ; alee anticcB pallide littece, stibtiliter punclatce, corporis 

 dimidio breviores, basi strigaque subcoslali lanceolata nigris. 



Male. Black, elliptical, broad, shining, very stout. Head finely and 

 rather thinly punctured, not extendintj beyond the prothorax; vertex pale 

 luteous, emitting on each side an angular streak along the eye to the 

 socket of the antenna ; fore border luteous. Eyes cinereous, very wide 

 apart. Prothorax pale luteous, thinly and roughly punctured, depressed 

 in the middle and longitudinally ridged on each side of the disk, rounded 

 and reflexed on each side and on the fore border, where it is especially 

 refle.xed ; disk black, with a lyre-shaped luteous mark, and with two paler 

 luteous anterior spots, one on each side; hind border straight. Abdomen 

 on each side with a luteous border, which is very narrow on the under side ; 

 supra-anal lamina entire. Cerci short, broad. Legs thick; femora setose 

 beneath ; tibiae with many long stout spines ; arolia large. Fore wings 

 pale luteous, corneous, subquadrate, thickly and minutely punctured, 

 rather less than half the length of the abdomen, black at the base, whence 

 a lanceolate subcostal black streak proceeds to half the length. Length of 

 the body 14 lines. 



Colombia. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Fam. DIPLOPTERIDiE, page 46. 

 Genus. PROSOPLECTA, page 56. . 



PrOSOPLECTA QUADKIPLAGIATA. 



Mas. Nigra, ovata, capite, palpis, antennis, pectore, ventre pedibusque 

 luteis ; prothorax brevis, gliber. margine poslico subrolundalo ; alee 

 anlicm sublililer punctata, baai tumidce, plagis duabus luteis, lo 

 basali, 2o discoidali. 



Male. Black, oval, shining, very convex. Head, palpi, antennae, 

 pectus, under side of abdomen aud legs luteous. Head not extending 

 beyond the prothorax. Prothorax smooth, shorter than half its breadth ; 

 fore border slightly truncated ; hind border slightly rounded. Wings 

 extending rather beyond the abdomen. Fore wings corneous, thickly and 

 minutely punctured, somewhat tumid near the base ; two luteous patches, 

 one at the base, the other at half the length near the hind border. Hind 

 wings black. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Batchian. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Prosoplecta gutticollis. 



Mas. Pallide testacea ; caput prothoraeem non superans ; prothorax 

 nigra quinque maculatun ; abdomen nigrum ; alee nigrcB, abdomen 

 superantes ; alee anticee macutis quinque magnis, striga basali 

 , lanceolata costaque pallide testaceis. 



Male. Pale testaceous, oval, shining, very convex. Head not ex- 

 tending beyond the prothorax. Eyes black, wide apart. Antennaj very 



