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fore-wings tawny, broad, convex above, and on the fore border near 

 the base, and on the hind border near the tips, adorned with nume- 

 rous brown dots, about a dozen on each areolet ; veins tawny : hind- 

 wings wanting? Length of the body H line ; of the wings 4 lines. 



rt. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



13. Hysteropterum truncate llum, Mas. 



Fuluum ; thorax nigra maculatus ; abdomen fuscum, flavo fas- 

 datum; pedes fulvi; alee anticafulvcc, subcoriacea, latcB,apice 

 truncates. 



Body tawny, short, broad, and very deep : head very short and 

 broad, more than half the breadth of the fore-wing ; crown extremely 

 short, adorned with contiguous black spots, its breadth more than 

 eight limes its length ; front large, flat, subquadrate, tinged with 

 black on the fore border, the hind border and the middle longitudinal 

 ridge, its breadth less than twice its length ; epistoma small, nearly 

 heart-shaped, adorned on each side with oblique ferruginous bands : 

 mouth tawny: eyes not prominent: fore-chest very short, nearly 

 straight, adorned with black spots, its breadth more than eight times 

 its length : middle chest triangular, full twice the length of the fore- 

 chest, adorned with two black spots: abdomen obconical, brown, not 

 longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments yellow : legs 

 tawny, raiher stout ; hind-shanks armed with one spine : fore-wings 

 tawny, coriaceous, nearly vertical, very broad, yellowish and slightly 

 convex on the fore border, very convex and almost angular on the 

 hind border, somewhat obliquely truncated at the tips ; veins tawny ; 

 cross-veins very numerous, forming intricate ramilications: hind- 

 wings wanting. Length of the body H line ; of the wings 2^ lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Genus 4. HEMISPHGERIUS. 



Hemisphoerius, Schaum, Allg. Enc. JVissench. Kunst. i. Sect. 51, 



71, r>2. 

 Issus, Burmeister. 



Alae anlicae convexa), glabra, elytrorum Coccinellcc similitudine. 



Fore-w'ings globose, smooth, quite coriaceous, like those of a 

 beetle, such as Coccinella or Chilucorus. 



