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scutellum rather thinly and roughly punctured. Thorax smooth in front, 
where it is transversely striated on each side; a blackish band bordered 
with dull ochraceous on the hind side, very near the hind border, occupying 
the hind side of the horns; horns slightly acute, slightly curved backward, 
about as long as their breadth at the base. Scutellum lutescent-green, 
attenuated, acute, finely punctured on the apical half. Abdomen with four 
apical spines, the outer pair a little longer than the inner pair. Legs tes- 
taceous. Fore wings reddish, thickly and minutely punctured, with some pale 
greenish patches; membrane eneous-brown. Length of the body 7 lines. 
It most resembles L’. melacantha, but the thorax is much more roughly 
and thinly punctured. 
a. Santarem. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
102. EpESSA PALLICORNIS. 
Prasina, sublus pallide lestacea; caput testaceo varium, negro quadri- 
lineatum; antenne albide, articulis basalibus nigro conspersis ; 
thorax subtiliter punctatus, antice testaceus, cornubus latis subacutis 
apice nigris latitudine basali non longioribus ; pectus nigro con- 
spersum, piceo biplagiatum; venter luteus, vitlis duabus latissimis e 
atomis nigris; abdomen apice bispinosum; pedes sordide testacet, 
FSemoribus apices versus nigricantibus. 
Grass-green, pale testaceous beneath. Head partly pale testaceous, 
partly and minutely punctured, with four black lines. Eyes piceous. 
Antenne whitish; first, second and third joints minutely speckled with 
black ; second rather longer than the third; fourth much more than twice 
the length of the third; fifth as long as the fourth. Thorax and scutellumn 
rather thickly and minutely punctured. Thorax mostly smooth and pale 
testaceous in front; horns broad, slightly acute, not longer than their 
breadth at the base, black towards the tips. Scutellum acute, hardly 
attenuated. Pectus thickly speckled with black and having a large piceous 
patch on each side. Abdomen beneath luteous, with two extremely broad 
stripes of black speckles; hind angles of the segments successively more 
acute and elongated, those of the apical segment forming two short 
spines. Legs dingy testaceous, setulose; femora blackish towards the 
tips. Fore wings much more thickly and minutely punctured than the 
thorax ; membrane eneous-brown. Length of the body 9 lines. 
It is somewhat like #. lurida in structure, but the horns of the thorax 
are broader and more obtuse. 
a. Para. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
103. EpEssA GRAMINOSA. 
Prasina, sublus pallide lutea; caput testaceum, transverse striatum ; 
thorax subtiliter punctatus, lateribus spatioque antico testacets, illis 
transverse striatis, cornubus perparum recurvis latitudine basali 
brevioribus apice nigris subrotundatis ; scutellum valde attenuatum 
et acuminatum ; pectus viridi fusciatum ; abdomen apice sexspino- 
sum ; pedes viridescentes. 
Grass-green, pale luteous beneath. Head testaceous, transversely 
and very finely striated. Eyes blackish. Autenne mutilated; first joint 
