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Var. a. Head and chest green : abdomen brassy brown : no 

 bands across the hinder-shanks. 



Female P Greenish blue : head a little broader than the chest : 

 feelers clavate, a little longer than the chest ; joints from the fifth 

 to the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club nearly elliptical, 

 much longer than the tenth joint : abdomen elliptical, smooth, 

 purple, blue at the base, convex above, keeled beneath, much 

 shorter but not narrower than the chest; metapodeon occupying 

 one-half of the back ; octoon and ennaton of moderate size ; deca- 

 ton and following segments very short. 



LAMPROTATUS Coretas. Mas. Cyaneo-viridis, abdominis disco 

 purpureo-cupreo, antennis nigris, tibiis tarsisque piceis, pro- 

 tibiis fulvis piceo vittatis, alls subfuscis. Page 111. 



Dark green, with a slight bluish tint: head and chest convex, 

 shagreened: head broader than the chest: eyes and eyelets dark 

 red : feelers black, filiform, a little longer than the chest; first joint 

 green ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth very small ; fifth and 

 following joints to the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club 

 spindle-shaped, very much longer than the tenth joint : chest oval : 

 fore-chest short ; its breadth above about twice its length : sutures 

 of the parapsides distinct ; axillee rather large, parted by about one- 

 fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon subrhomboidal, with 

 a distinct transverse suture near its tip : hind-chest rather large, ob- 

 conical, somewhat mgulose, slightly declining : petiole very short : 

 abdomen linear, smooth, depressed, purplish copper on the disk, 

 shorter and very much narrower than the chest; metapodeon occu- 

 pying most of the back ; octoon and following segments short : legs 

 piceous ; hips and thighs green ; knees and fore-shanks tawny, the 

 latter having a piceous line along their whole length : wings rather 

 narrow, with a very slight brownish tint ; veins brown ; ulna about 

 half the length of the humerus ; radius much longer than the ulna ; 

 cubitus full half the length of the ulna; wing-brand piceous, rather 

 small. Length of the body 1^ line ; of the wings 2 lines. 



SEMioTUsTauriscus. Mas. Viridis, abdominis disco purpureo, 

 antennis nigris,pedibus piceis, femoribus viridibus, protibiis 

 et protarsis fulvis, alis subgriseis. Page 1 12. 



Dark green: head and chest convex, finely shagreened : head 

 not broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets dark red : feelers 

 black, filiform, not longer than the chest ; first joint long, slender, 

 green ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth very small ; the fol- 



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