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17. Meeoncidius vieidineevis, n. sp. 

 Exp. a.1. 65 millim. ; long. corp. 38 millini. 



Male. Browu, head smooth ; labrum greenish ; maudibles 

 black, except at the base ; a depressed circle surrounding the 

 space of the antennae, and the fastigiiim projecting in a spoon- 

 shape between them ; scape pointed; flagellum broken: the basal 

 joints varied with lighter and darker brown ; thorax strongly 

 granulated, a little speckled with black, and much raised behind, 

 where it assumes a slight greenish tint; tegmina brown, minutely 

 reticulated and spotted with dark brown, chiefly above and 

 below the nervures ; longitudinal nervures mostly green ; in the 

 costal area the nervures are blackish towards the base, where 

 they anastomose a little; on the disk the transverse nervures are 

 browu or indistinctly green ; inner margin with alternate darker 

 and paler spaces : wings smoky liyaliue, with reddish-brown 

 longitudinal and brown transverse nervures ; hind margins 

 damaged, but probably browner than the rest of the wing ; legs 

 indistinctly mottled; spines of femora mostly black on the 

 inner sides, hind femora with a black basal streak on the outside. 



Somewhat resembles M. indistinctus, Walk., but the wings 

 are shorter. 



A single specimen on a tree in the Sapate. 



18. Stenopola dorsalis {Thunh.). 



Truxalis dorsalis, Thunb. Nov. Acta Upsal. ix. p. 80 (1827). 

 Stenopola dorsalis, StH, Recensio Orth. i. p. 83 (1873). 



The hind legs have not been described ; they are reddish 

 brown, the middle of the femora being black on both surfaces, 

 the striations more or less marked with paler. The hind tibisD 

 are armed, except on the basal third, with a double row of mode- 

 rately long and pointed spines, the intermediate space above is 

 clothed with long fine white hairs, and there is a row of much 

 shorter white hairs on the under surface also. The sides and 

 under surface of the hind tibicC are generally dark green or 

 blackish ; at the tip there are two short spines on the outside, 

 and two long ones on the inside. There are apparently only 

 three joints to the hind tarsi : the first is three times as long 

 as broad, but is broad and flattened ; the second is much 

 narrower, half as long again as broad, and produced into a long 

 tooth at the extremity beneath, and the terminal joint is very 



