82 INSECTA SAUNDEESIANA. 



divided into two regions, the lower pitchy and composed of very small 

 facets, the upper red, slightly bronzed, composed of rather large facets : 

 mouth black : feelers black ; first and second joints shining ; compound 

 joint dull, pitchy : chest rather long, covered with brown down, having a 

 pale green stripe on each side ; hind border of the scutcheon ferruginous, 

 armed with two ferruginous teeth : abdomen flat, nearly spindle-shaped, 

 covered with brown down, much longer and a little broader than the chest : 

 legs ferruginous; feet pitchy, tawny towards the base; wings very dark 

 brown ; wing-ribs and veins black ; poisers pitchy, their knobs green be- 

 neath. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus CHRYSOCHLORA, Latr. 



Chrysochlora plana, Fem. 



Fulva, thorace vittis tribus piceis, ahdomine nigro ventre vittisque fulris, 

 antennis ferrugineis, pedihus fiavis, femorihus fulvis, alls subcinereis 

 ad costam fulvis disco sublimpidis. 



Head -pale tawny, or yellow, clothed with pale tawny hairs, and on 

 the crown with a few black hairs : a pitchy streak extending from the eye- 

 lets nearly to the feelers : eyes black, slightly adorned with iridescent 

 colours ; facets small : mouth tawny : feelers ferruginous, in structure like 

 those of C. exclamans : bristle black, tawny at the base : chest and breast 

 dark tawny : chest adorned with three pitchy stripes ; fore border of the 

 scutcheon and part of the breast pitchy : abdomen black, nearly elliptical, 

 a little longer and broader than the chest, adorned with one entire and 

 four interrupted short, tawny stripes ; underside pale tawny, pitchy towards 

 the tip : legs pale yellow ; thighs tawny ; claws black, yellow at the base : 

 wings pale gray, tawny beneath the fore border, almost colourless in the 

 disk, wing-ribs, veins and poisers tawny. Length of the body 6 — 6^ lines ; 

 of the winffs 14 — 15 lines. 



Columbia. 



Chrysochlora? tincta, Fem. 



Nigra, abdominis apice femigineo , tibiis jmsticis basi tarsisqiie Jlavis, alis 

 cinereis ad costam fulvis. 



Body black, dull : head prominent and rugulosc in front, clothed 

 above with black hairs, beneath with pale tawny hairs: eyes black, thinly 



