95'2 INSECTA SAUNDRRSTANA. 



Genus TEMNOCERA, St. Farg. et Serv. 



Temnocera fulvolucens, Mas. 



Fulm, capitis thoracisque discis purpureis,abdomine supra piceo, antennis 

 pedibusque fidvis, tibiis posticis tarsisque piceis, alis subcinereis bad 

 casta venarumque marginibus fulvis. 



Allied to T. pallida. Tawny., clothed with short black hairs : head 

 clothed with tawuy hairs ; crown purplish : eyes red, thickly clothed with 

 short black hairs ; facets along the hind border smaller than those else- 

 where : feelers tawny : disk of the chest purple or greenish taivny, its sides 

 beset with black bristles : «&f/omew obconioal, a little shorter and broader 

 than the chest, pitchy above, pale tawny at the base : legs tawny ; feet 

 pitchy, tawny at the base ; claws black, tawny at the base ; hind-shanks 

 mostly pitchy : wings slightly tinged with gray, tawny at the base and be- 

 neath the fore border and along the wins in the disk ; wing-ribs and veins 

 tawny ; veins black towards the tips ; poisers yellow. Length of the body 

 3J — 4 lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



Brazil. 



Temnocera metallobum, Mas. 



Ferruginea, supra cupreo viridi et purpurea ornata, antennis fulvis, pedihus 

 piceis, femoribus ferrugineis, alis cinereis basi casta nervorumque 

 marginibus fuscis. 



Ferruginous : thickly clothed with short black hairs : head thickly 

 clotlied with short tawuy hairs : eyes black, thickly clothed with short 

 black hairs ; facets larger on the crown than elsewhere : mouth tawny ; 

 feelers tawny; sixth joint darker towards the tip: chest thickly clothed with 

 short black hairs ; disk coppery varied with metallic green and purple ; 

 scutcheon purple, beset like the sides of the chest with black bristles : ab- 

 domen obconical, broader and a little shorter than the chest, coppery, 

 tinged ivith green and piirple ; tip and underside partly ferruginous : legs 

 pitchy, clothed with short black hairs ; hips and thighs ferruginous ; claws 

 black, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny ; xvings gray, broum at 

 the base beneath the fore border and along the bordets of the veins ; wing- 

 ribs pitchy ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; 

 poisers tawny. Length of the body bk lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Para. 



