240 INSKCTA SAUNDKllSIANA. 



dark tawny at the base iind alonir the fore huifler ; brands pale brown • 

 poisers tawny. Length of the body 2f lines; of the wings 5 Hues. 



Brazil. 



Syephus Pacilus, Fem. 



^neo-viridis, capite aureo, ahdomine nigra maculis octo fulvis ornato 

 apice ceneo, untennis pedibusque fulvis, pedibxts posticis piceis, alis 

 limpidis. 



Head gold colour, vAlh a bronze shining stripe between the feelers and 

 the episloma, which is prominent : eyes red : feelers tawny : chest and 

 breast brassy green : abdomen black, nearly linear, brassy ariA. obconical <o- 

 wards the lip, very much longer than the chest, adorned with four pairs of 

 tawny spots ivhich successively decrease in size : legs tawny, darker abont the 

 middle of the joints ; hind-legs mostly pitchy : unnys colourless; wing-ribs 

 tawny ; veins black, tawny at the base and along the fore border ; brands 

 dark tawny ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 

 lines. 



North America. 



SvRPHUs Vatia, Mas. 



Cyaneo-viridis, capite supra Jlavo, thoracis laferibns scutelloque fulvis, 

 abdomine rufo-fulvo fasciis duabus nigris duabusque piceis et non- 

 nunqudni maculis nigris orn/ito, antennis luteis, pedibus fulvis tibiis 

 posticis apice tarsisque posticis piceis, alis limpidis. 



Head black, bright yellow above, adorned with a tawny covering and 

 clothed with hoary hairs beneath : eyes red : moulh black with a tawny 

 tip : feelers lutcous ; sixth joint black, tawny at the base : chest and breast 

 bluish green : chest adorned with a ferruginous covering, tvhich forms two 

 bands ; sides and scutcheon tawny : abdomen tawny, nearly linear, much 

 longer than the chest, adorned with four bands; the first and the second 

 black on the borders of the first segment ; third and fourth pitchy on the 

 hind borders of the second and third segments, ichich when darkest are each 

 adorned with a pair of black spots ; a single black spot on the fourth seg- 

 ment ; disks of the third and the fourth segments reddish: legs tawny; 

 hind- feet and tips of hind-shanks pitchy: wings colourless; wing-ribs 



