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9. Ceresa brunnicornis. 



Ceresa bmnnicornis, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv, 



285, 9. 

 Smilia brimnicornis, Germ. Silh. Rev. Ent. iii. 235, 7. 



Buenos Ayres. 



10. Ceresa axillaris. 



Ceresa axillaris, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 285, 10. 

 Smilia axillaris, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 235, 8. 



Brazil. 



11. Ceresa diceros. 



Ceresa diceros, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 285, 11. 

 Membracis diceros. Say, Narr. Exp. App. Journ. Acad. Nat. Soc. 



Philad. 

 Smilia diceros, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 237, 12. 

 Ceresa postfasciata, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat Hem. 540, 2. pi. 10. 



f. 3. 



a — e. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 /. Nova Scotia. Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 

 g — I. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



12. Ceresa basalis, Mas. 



Nigra, pilosa ; caput fulvum nigro trimaculatum ; prothorax ful- 

 vus, nigro quadrimaculatns ; pedes fulvi ; femora nigro fas- 

 ciata ; alee anticce sublimpidce, basiflavce, apice subfulvce. 



Black, hairy : head tawny, hairy, rugulose, with three black 

 spots ; one on each side by the eye ; the third in front : eyes pro- 

 minent: fore-chest tawny, thickly punctured, extending beyond 

 the abdomen, hairy in front, with a black spot on each side of the 

 fore border, rising perpendicularly for some height above the head, 

 and then forming across a nearly right angle, behind which is a 

 triangular flat compartment, and on each side a short acute horn ; 

 the compartment formed by the outer side of each horn is triangular, 

 slightly concave, with a black disk ; hind part of fore-chest keeled, 

 much compressed, slightly convex, very slender towards the tip, 

 which is black and acute : abdomen obconicai ; lower appendage at 



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