210 INSECTA SAUNDEESTANA. 



base ; tip cross-vein forinim/ a sliyhlli/ obtuse angle ; loiver cross-vein with 

 two deep curves ; between which there is a short stump. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



West Australia. 



PSILOPUS EXQUfSITUS. 



Purpureus, abdominis basi et segmentorum marginibus anticis viridibus, 

 antennis nigris, pedibus piceis, alis subcinereis. 



Broad, bright purple^ heset with black bristles: head green about the 

 base of the feelers, clothed beneath with white hairs ; epistoraa and breast 

 adorned with a whitish covering : eyes bright red : mouth pitchy : feelers 

 black; first and second joints beset with black bristles: abdomen ti\])ev\ng 

 from the base to the tip, longer and narrower than the chest, green at the 

 base and on the fore border of each segment : legs pitchy, clothed with very 

 short black hairs; thighs thinly clothed with long white hairs: wings very 

 slightly gray ; wing-ribs and veins black ; tip cross-vein forming a right 

 angle ; lower cross-vein very slightly waving ; poisers pitchy. Length of 

 the body 2\ lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Brazil. 



PsiLOPUS ELEGANS, MaS. 



Viridis, antennis nigris, pedibus flavis, alis limpidis. 



Bright green, beset with black bristles : front of the head purplish blue, 

 adorned like the breast with a white covering : eyes bright red : mouth 

 yellow : feelers black ; sixth joint nearly as long as the chest : abdomen cylin- 

 drical, twice the length of the chest ; appendages of the tip taivny : legs 

 yellow, clothed with very short black hairs, beset with a few black bristles : 

 wings colourless ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base ; poisers 

 ferruginous; tip cross-vein curved, not angular ; lower cross-vein very slightly 

 vjaving. Length of the body H line ; of the wings 2| lines. 



East Indies. 



