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and thinly punctured, with a slight smooth transverse ridge near the fore 

 border; sides transversely striated in front; lateral angles prominent and 

 rectangular. Scutellum attenuated, acute, more finely and towards the tip 

 much moie thickly punctured than the thorax. Abdomen with six very 

 short apical spines. Legs testaceous. Fore wings thickly and minutely 

 punctured; membrane cinereous. Length of the body 6 lines. 



a. Cayenne. Presented by W. VV. Saunders, Esq. 



128. Edessa senilis. , • ■ 



Pallide lutea ; caput transverse striatum ; antenncE pallide testacece ; thorax 

 subtiliter nigro punctatus, angulis posticis rotundalis ; scutellum sub- 

 acutum, fusco nel/ulosum ; abdomen apice bidenla.tum ; alee anlicce 

 viridi saturate siiffusce, apud costam aspere punctata et luteo 

 notatcB. 



Pale luteous. Head transversely and finely striated. Eyes dull red. 

 Anteunse pale testaceous ; second joint mucii shorter than the third ; 

 fourth about twice the length of the third, rather shorter than the fifth. 

 Thorax thickly and minutely black-punctuied ; a smooth baud near the 

 fore border; lateral angles rounded, not prominent. Scutellum attenuated, 

 slightly acute, punctured like the thorax, mostly clouded with brown. Ab- 

 domen with the hind angles of the apical segment elongated and acute, 

 but hardly forming spines. Legs luteous. Fore wings suffused with deep 

 green, very thukly and minutely punctured, except along the costa, where 

 they are roughly punctured and have some luteous marks; membrane dark 

 greenish brown. Length of the body 7 lines. 



In this species and in E. hamala, E. melanocera and Aceratodes 

 privata the forks of the pectoral keel are parallel to each other or nearly 

 so; in the other species of the two genera they diverge much froin each 

 other. 



a. Santarem. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



129. Edessa consentanea. 



Pallide lutea; caput pallide jiavum, transverse striatum ; thorax sparse el 

 subtiliter punctatus, fascia antica Jlava f/labra, angulis posticis sub- 

 roiundatis ; scutellum sat dense punc latum, vix acutum ; abdomen 

 spinis duabus apicalibus brevissimis ; alee anticce fusco punctata el 

 nebulosee. 



Pale luteous. Head pale yellow, finely and transversely striated. 

 Eyes dull red. Antenna pale luteous; third joint much longer than the 

 second, rather shorter than the fourth ; fifth a little longer than the fourth. 

 Thorax thinly and finely punctured, with a smooth pale yellow band near 

 the fore border; lateral angles slightly rounded, not prominent. Scutellum 

 slightly attenuated, hardly acute, more thickly and minutely punctured 

 than the thorax. Hind angles of the apical abdominal segment forming 

 two very short s|)iues; no intermediate spines. Legs pale luteous, 

 pubescent. Fore wings thickly and minutely brown-pnnclnred, mostly 

 clouded with brown; membrane aeneous-brown. Length of the body 

 6J lines. 



a. Tejuca. Presented by the Rev. H. Clark. 



