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3. Phyllopalpus COMPTUS. 



Fcem. Piceus, gracilis, subpilosus, subtus fulvus ; antenna nigra, graciles, 

 nigra late fasciatce ; oviductus ferrugineus, vix arcuatus, abdomine 

 longior ; pedes picei, longiusculi, gracillimi, tibiis tarsisque fulvis, 

 iibiis posticis bispinosis ; alee anticce abdomine paullo breviores ; alee 

 posticcB corpore longiores. 



Female. Piceous, slender, tawny beneath. Head shining, tawny 

 about the mouth, vertex and prothorax slightly pilose. Eyes black. 

 Antennae black, slender, with a broad white band. Oviduct ferruginous, 

 hardly curved, longer ihau the abdomen. Legs piceous, rather long, very 

 slender; tibiae and tarsi tawny; hind tibiae with two short slender spines. 

 Fore wings a liitle shorter than the abdomen. Hind wings longer than the 

 body. Length of the body 2^ lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



4. Phyllopalpus elegans. 



Fcem. Niger, gracilis, subpilosus ; caput albo fasciatum, antice sublus- 

 que luteuia ; antenna graciliima, albo late fasciata, corpore plus 

 duplo longiores ; prothorax luteo tristrigatis, albido antice mar- 

 ginatus ; cerci fulvi, breves; oviductus fulvus, arcuatus, abdomine 

 paullo brevior ; pedes fulvi, longi, gracillime nigro vittati ; aim 

 antica cervina, viridi vitlala, basi apiceque albo nigroque tiolata ; 

 ata posticce nulla. 



Female. Black, slender, slightly pilose. Head luteous in front and 

 beneath, with a narrow white band between the eyes. AntenniE very 

 slender, more than twice the length of the body, with a while band at one- 

 fourth of the length. Prothorax with a narrow whitish fore border and with 

 three luteous longitudinal streaks, the middle streak in advance of the other 

 two. Cerci tawny, very slender, less than half the length of the abdomen. 

 Oviduct tawny, curved upward, a little shorter than the abdomen. Legs 

 lawny, long, very slender ; femora and the four anterior tibias striped with 

 black; hind tibiae with three slender wide apart spines on each side. Fore 

 wings fawn-colour, extending to the tip of the abdomen, with a white spot 

 and a black dot at the base, and with a grass-green stripe, which extends 

 along the lateral keel and ends in a white spot; subcostal^space pellucid for 

 half the length from the base, black from thence to the spot; inner border 

 of the right fore wing grass-green from the base to three-fourths of the 

 length. Hind wings not apparent. Length of the body 3 lines. 



a. Santarem. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



5. Phyllopalpus pulcheb. 



Foetn. Niger, gracilis ; caput protkorace latins, verlice frontaque ochra- 

 ceis ; palpi articulo 3o dilatato ; antenna longa, graciliima, albo 

 late fasciata, basi ochracea ; prothorax ochraceo triviltatus et quadri- 

 guttatus ; oviductus fulvus, arcualus ; pedes longi, gracillimi, albido 

 vittati; ala untica fcrruginca, abdomen paullo superanles, basi 



