74 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Testaceous, narrow. Eyes piceous, very prominent. Rostrum 

 extending a little beyond the fore coxaj ; second joint longer tlian the 

 others; tip black. Antennse slunder, much shorter than the body ; joints 

 from the first to the third successively decreasing in length ; fourth much 

 longer than the first. Prothorax finely scabrous; a tawny callus on each 

 side near the fore border; transverse ridge near the hind border piceous, 

 well defined; sides straight; bind angles very obtuse, not prominent. 

 Four anterior femora beneath with two minute black-tipped subapical 

 spines. Hind femora much incrassated, rather more than half the length 

 of the abdomen, red above, black at the tips, with two stout spines beneath 

 beyond the middle. Hind tibiie red, shorter than the hind femora, piceous 

 for half the length from the base, with a thick spine beneath at half the 

 length. Tarsi and four anterior tibia red. Fore wings with a very broad 

 black streak, which occupies more than balf the length of the corium from 

 the tip; veins wboUy testaceous; membrane brown. Length of the body 

 8 lines. 

 a. Amazon Region. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



8. HiRILCUS PALLIDUS. 



Mas. Testaceus, gracilis ; antenna rufa, (fracillima, corpore breviores ; 



prothorax subiiiiter scaber, macula margincque postico piceis, angxilis 



posticis obtusis non praminnlis ; femora poslica valde i^icrassalu, 



abdominis dimidio ceqiiilonga, apice picea ; tibice postico: rufce, basi 



pallidiores, femoribiis posticis breviores ; alee antica nigrcc, Jiavo 



venosa, membrana fuscescente. 



Male. Testaceous, slender. Eyes piceous, prominent. Rostrum 



extending a little beyond the fore coxa?; tip piceous. Antennae red, very 



slender, somewhat shorter than the body; joints from the first to the third 



successively decreasing in length ; fourth much longer than the first. 



Prothorax finely scabrous, with a callus on each side near the fore border; 



a piceous spot extending from the disk to the hind border, which is also 



piceous; sides straight; hind angles very obtuse, not prominent. Four 



anterior femora beneath with two minute black-tipped spines. Hind 



femora much incrassated, about half the length of the abdomen, piceous at 



the tips, armed beneath with two stout spines near the tips. Hind tibisB 



red, paler towards the ti])s, ratlicr broad, shorter than the hind femora. 



Fore wings black; veins pale yellow; membrane brownish. Length of 



the body 8 lines. 



a. Amazon Region. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



9. HiRILCUS? VIRESCENS. 



Meropachys virescens, Erichs. Schomb. Reise Guiana, iii. f)I2. 

 Guiana. 



Genus -20. PERANTHUS. 

 Peranthus, Stal, Ofv. V. Ak. Fork. 1807, 536. Hem. Fabr. 42. 



