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v/Mt«U/£jt 41. StRACHIA APTA. 



Nigra, glabra, nitens, sublus ochracea ; caput ludusculum, transverse 

 striatum; rostrum coxas posticus longe superans ; anlnina arliculo 

 2o basi loque ochraccis ; thorax fascia antica, latcribus strigaque 

 lanceolata ochraceis ; scutcllum fascia arcuata, vitla apiccque ochra- 

 ceis ; pectus nigro sex maculatum ; pedes nigri,femoribus basi ochra- 

 ceis ; alcE antica: ochraceo bifasciatcc, membrana cinereo marginata. 



Blade, smooth, shining, elliptical, ochraceous beneath. Head rather 

 broad, finely and transversely striated ; sides slightly reflexed ; lobes of 

 equal length. Eostrum ochraceous, black towards the lip, extending nearly 

 to the hind border of the second ventral segment. Antennas slender ; first 

 joint ochraceous, not extending to the front of the head ; second ochraceous 

 at the base, a little more than half the length of the third; fourth a little 

 longer than the third. Thorax in front with an ochraceous band, which is 

 continued along each side to the hind angle, and emits a lanceolate streak 

 to the hind border; sides slightly reflexed; fore angles slightly acute ; hind 

 angles rounded. Scutelluni with a slender ochraceous stripe, an ochraceous 

 tip, and a curved ochraceous band. Pectus with three large black spots on 

 each side. Legs black, stout ; femora towards the base and coxa; ochra- 

 ceous ; tibiae furrowed. Fore wings with two ochraceous bauds on the 

 corium, one basal, the other marginal, both dilated towards the costa; 

 membrane with a cinereous border. Length of the body 6 lines. 



a. Amazon Region. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



42. Strachia teiangularis. 



Nigra, longi-ovata , nitens, aspere punctata, subtus flavo-alba nigro septem- 

 vitlata ; caput slrigis duabus l.aleralibus viaculisfjue duabus posticis 

 transversis Jlavo-albis, lobo medio lobos laterales paullo superante ; 

 antenncE corporis dimidio breviores ; thorax linca transversa abbre- 

 viala antica lineolisqueflavo-albis ; sculeUumflavo-albo marginatum : 

 pedes nigri, femoribus flavo-albis nigro fasciatis, libiis albu fascialis ; 

 al(£ anticcE vitta cosiali brevi villaque subcoslali flavo-albis. 



Black, elongate-oval, shining, roughly punctured, yellowish while 

 beneath. Head elongate, with a yellowish white strciik along each side 

 and with a transverse yellowish white spot along each side of the hind 

 border; sides slightly reflexed; middle lobe extending a little beyond the 

 lateral lobes; two black spnis on each side beneath. Eyes prominent. 

 Rostrum black, yellowish white towards the base, extending to the hind 

 coxPB. Antcnnce slender, less than half the length of the body; first joint 

 not extending to the front of the head ; second and third of eciual length ; 

 fourth much longer than the third. Thorax in front with an abbreviated 

 transverse smooth yellowish white line and with yellowish white sides ; hind 

 border with a transverse yellowish while line on each side ; fore angles and 

 hind angles slightly acute. Scutcllum bordered with yellowish white. Con- 

 nexivum yellowish white. Pectus and under side of abdomen with seven 

 black stripes. Legs black, slender; coxic and femora yellowish white, the 

 latter with a black band near the tip ; tibia; with a white baud near the lip. 

 Fore wings with a short yellowish while costal stripe proceeding fiom ihe 



