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than the chest, ferruginous towards the base, abdomen of the female pale 

 luteous toxvards the tip which is much attenuated : legs taivni/ : xcinys colour- 

 less, slightly tawny at the base, adorned along the fore border with a dark 

 brown interrupted stripe ivhich is widened at the tip ; veins black ; fifth vein 

 converging towards the tip of the fourth ; sixth not reaching the hind 

 border; cross-veins straight, ahnost upright: poisers pitchy. Length of the 

 body \\ — 2 lines ; of the wings 2 — 3 lines. 



United States. 



Ortalis angusta, Mas. 



Viridis ; caput fulvum ; antenncE fulvcc , apicepicea ; thorax purpureo vit- 

 tatus, ferrugineo varius ; abdomen obclavalum, compressum , ferrugi- 

 neum, viridi et purpureo varium ; pedes picei, femoribus fulvis ; aUc 

 hyalince, fusco bivittatw. 



Head tawny ; crown pitchy towards the base of the feelers ; f;ice with 

 an oblique furrow on each side: mouth pitchy; palpi t.iwny: feelers 

 tawny ; third joint pitchy, tawny at the base, slightly tapering from the 

 base to the tip, full four times the length of the second; sixth black, 

 slender, bare, nearly twice the length of the third : chest green, with indistinct 

 purple stripes ; a hoary tinge on each side ; shoulders, disk of the breast 

 and hind-chest ferrugino\is : abdomen ferruginous, tinged ivith green and 

 purple, obclavate, compressed, narrower and a little longer than the chest, 

 clothed with tawny hairs : legs pitchy, thighs taumy ; posterior thighs 

 pitchy towards the tips: ivings colourless, brown along the fore border, with 

 a colourless interval and with a brown streak proceeding from the base to the 

 middle cross-vein, which is veiy oblique ; lower cross-vein clouded with 

 brown, oblique, curved outward towards its base ; veins black, partly 

 tawny : alula; whitish : halteres ferruginous. Length of the body 4^ lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



Brazil. 



