530 catalogue of 



Platynopus biguttatus. 

 Canihecona biguttata, VoUenh. Pent. 8, pl.^1, f. 0. 

 Am. 

 Var. ? a. Balcliian. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Platynopus purpuuascexs. 



Purpureo-rufescens, sttbiiis viridis ; caput siihtui pallide luleiim, lateribus 

 viridibim : antenna: fulvw, gracUlimce, articulo '3o apicem versus 4n(/iie 

 nic/ris, 5o albo apice nigra; thorax maculis duabus discoidalibus 

 slriguqHe duabus lateralibus pallide lutels, spin is lonrjis postice incisis ; 

 scutellum macula basalt magna nigro-viridi, slrigis duabus pnsticis 

 fuscescentibus indeterminatis ; abdomen lateribus pallide luteis, spina 

 ventrali brcvissima ; pedes pallide lutein, femoribus nigra conspersis, 

 tibiis anlicis nan dilalatis ; alee anlicce casta apiceque luteo consperstc, 

 tnembrana fusca vittis duabus diaphanis. 



Reddish, elongate-oval, rouglily punctured, bright green beneath. 

 Head and thorax tinged with purplish. Head bright green on each side, 

 pale luteous beneath. Rostrum pale luteous, blackish at the tip. Antennae 

 tawnv, very slender; third joint black towards the tip; fourth black; fifth 

 while, black towards the tip. Thorax very slightly keeled, with a pale 

 luteous streak including a callus along each side, and with a pale luteous 

 callus on each side of the disk; spines long, slender, notched behind at 

 their tips. Scutellum pale luteous, with a large blackish green spot on the 

 fore border and with two posterior irregular brownish streaks. Abdomen 

 pale luteous along each side; apical segment forming two short spines; 

 ventral spine not extending beyond the hind coxa;. Legs pale luteous; 

 femora speckled with black; fore tibice not dilated. Fore wings speckled 

 with pale luteous along the costaand about the exterior border ; membrane 

 brown, pellucid along the fore border and along the hind border. Length 

 of the body 5J lines. 



Most allied to P. dutalus, from which the difference of the markings 

 of tbe thorax will distinguibh it. 



a. Ceram. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Genus AG ERRUS. 

 Agerrus, Slal, Of v. K. Vet. Ah. Fork. 185S, 434— Bodctria ? page 1 19. 



L Agp:rrus kemipes. 

 remipes, Stal, Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. Fork. 1858, 434. 

 Surinam. 



