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front flat, rounded on each side, bordered by a rira, concave where it 

 joins the epistoma, wiih three green stripes which are united at both 

 ends, the middle one is accompanied by a ridge ; epistoma with ob- 

 lique streaks on each side ; compartment on each side small, bordered 

 by a rim but not concave : antennce rather long : chest pale red : 

 fore-chest concave behind, almost truncate-conical in front, its length 

 in the middle much exceeding that on each side, adorned with a 

 green middle stripe and on each side with a green band along the 

 fore border : middle-chest full four times the length of the fore-chest, 

 with three green stripes, the middle one accompanied by a ridge : 

 legs very pale green; feet luteous: wings broad: fore-wings veiy 

 pale green with a luteous tinge along the tips and along the hind 

 borders, almost truncated at the lips, tuberculaled and slightly dilated 

 along the hind borders towards the base ; veins green, longitudind 

 veins very numerous ; cross-veins not numerous, a band of them 

 near to and parallel with the tip, and a few more in the disk ; 

 fore border slightly convex, along it a row of oblique parallel cross- 

 veins blending with those along the tip which are rather longer : 

 hind-wings white. Length of the body 2^ lines; of the wings 10 

 lines. 



a. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq- 



46. POECILOPTERA PEOXIMA, MaS. 



Viridi-Jlava ; caput perhr eve ; abdomen cristatum ; alee anticce vi- 

 rides, apice fere truncaice, margine postico ttiberculatce ; alee 

 pos ticca a I bee. 



Body pale yellow, tinged with green: head very short; crown 

 very slightly convex in front, shurier in the middle than on each 

 side ; front flat, rounded on each side, bordered by a rim, very slightly 

 concave where it joins the epistoma, with a middle ridge which 

 does not reach the epistoma, a little broader than long; epistoma 

 lengthened in front: tip of the mouth brown: fore-chest arched, 

 longer than the crown, a little longer in the middle than on each 

 side : middle-chest about four times the length of the fore-chest : 

 abdomen obconical, crested, a little longer than the chest ; append- 

 ages tawny : legs pale yellow, tinged with green : wings broad : 

 fore-wings pale green, almost tumcated at the tips which form a 

 slightly obtuse and somewhat rounded angle with the hind border ; 

 the latter is tuberculate towards the base ; veins green ; longitudinal 

 and .cross-veins numerous, some of the latter forming two uninter- 

 rupted bands near to and parallel with the tip ; fore border convex, 

 along it a row of oblique parallel slightly curved cross-veins of nearly 



