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23. EDESSA TRIFURCA. 
Prasina, subtus pallide testacea; antenne fulve, apices versus nigre ; 
thorax aspere punctatus, margine liturisque anticis transversis pallide 
testaceis, angulis posticis vix cornutis; scutellum margine antico 
viltaque trifurcata testaceis; abdomen apice vie spinosum; pectus 
viridt slrigatum; venter villa strigisque transversis fuscis; ale 
anlice rufe, apud costam testacee. 
Grass-green. Head beneath and pectus pale testaceous. Eyes tes- 
taceous. Antenne tawny, minutely setulose; second joint rather more 
than half the length of the third; fourth black, pale testaceous towards the 
base, longer than the third; fifth wanting. Thorax roughly and thinly 
punctured, with some smooth transverse pale testaceous marks in front and 
with a pale testaceous slightly elevated rim on each side in front; hind 
angles prominent, hardly horned, forming slightly rounded right angles. 
Scutellum testaceous along the fore border, with a testaceous stripe, which 
emits an oblique branch on each side, and with a pale testaceous slightly 
rounded tip. Pectus with transverse pale green streaks on each side. 
Abdomen beneath with a brown stripe, which is abbreviated hindward, and 
with transverse brown streaks and with brown sutures on each side; hind 
angles of the segments acute; those of the last segment slightly elongated. 
Leys testaceous. Fore wings red, thickly and minutely punctured, tes- 
taceous along the costa; a slight oblique pale testaceous streak in the 
disk; membrane eneous-brown. Length of the body 7 lines. 
Much resembles #. fasciata, but the hind angles of the thorax are 
less acute. 
a. Mexico, Orizaba. From M. Sallé’s collection. 
West Indies. 
24. Epessa ACANTHARIS. 
Cimex Acantharis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 710; Brown, Jamaic. 434, ie 44, 
fale Sulz. ‘Gesch. Ins. 96F pl bOsie8: 
Jamaica. Brazil. : 
South America. 
25. Eprssa cornuta, C. H. 319. 
a. Para. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
b. Tapayos. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
c,d. Amazon Region. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
e. Archidona. From Mr. Stevens’ collection. 
26. Eprssa Cervus, C. H. 320. 
a. Columbia. From M. Goudot’s collection. 
b—d. Brazii. From Mr. Mornay’s collection. 
e—g. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
h,i. Brazil. 
j,k. Cayenne. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
(, Amazon Region. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
