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wings subliy aline, the nervures black. Tie apical segment 

 of the abdomen with six teeth, four apical and two lateral. 



Var. 1. Green, with a violet spot enclosing the ocelli; 

 the svitures of the mesothorax, the scutelhim and post- 

 scutellum violet or pnrj^le ; the base of the abdomen and 

 middle of the first segment, as well as a transverse change- 

 able fascia in the middle of the second and the third seg- 

 ments, violet. 



Var. 2. Thorax and abdomen more or less green ; the 

 abdomen violet ; beneath usnallj green. 



This species closely resembles P. lyncea ; it differs from 

 that insect, being of a broader form : the abdomen is not 

 so narrow towards the apex ; the basal segment has the 

 lateral angles rounded, not sub-acute as in P. lyncea, and 

 the teeth at the apex are wider apart. 



Hab. — Australia; North and West Australia; Swan 

 River ; Lizard Island. 



7. Pyria hispilota. 



Pyria hispilota, Guer. Kev. Zool. v. p. 145 (1842). 

 Hab. — Madagascar. 



8. Pyria orientalis. 



Pyria orientalis, Guer. Rev. Zool. v. p. 146 (1842). 

 Hab. — Sumatra. 



9. Pyria Mouattii. 



r*'jri'i Mouattii, Guer. Eev. Zool. v. p. 145 (1842). 

 Hab. — Madagascar. 



10. Pyria Gheudei. 



Pyria Gheudei, Guer. Rev. Zool. v. p. 145 (1842). 

 Hab. — Madagascar. 



Genus Stilbum, Spin. 



The genus Stilbum, notwithstanding the researches and 

 labours of many eminent Entomologists, has hitherto been 

 arranjred in erroneous exactitude. Fabricius Avas the first 

 author who described, with any degree of satisfactory 

 correctness, the type of the genus. This was done in his 

 first systematic work, " Systema EntomologifE." 



Guerin-Meneville, in his " Revue Zoologique," 1842, 



