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PTEROMALUS Camma. Fern. Viridis, abdomine aneo, basi 

 viridi-fulvo, antennis nigris, pedibus flavis, alls limpidis. 

 Page 119. 



Body convex : head and chest dark green, finely shagreened : 

 head broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets red : feelers hlack, 

 very slightly clavate, much longer than the chest; first joint long, 

 slender, linear, yellow ; second cup-shaped, piceous ; third and 

 fourth very small ; fifth and following joints oblong, successively 

 decreasing in length ; club spindle-shaped, piceous, hardly broader 

 than the tenth joint but more than twice its length : chest ellipti- 

 cal : fore-chest very short : shield of the middle-chest of moderate 

 size ; sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; axillffi separated by 

 one-fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon nearly rhomboi- 

 dal : hind-chest of moderate size, obconical, declining : petiole 

 short : abdomen elliptical, bronze, smooth, shining, greenish tawny 

 at the base, pointed at the tip, rather deeply keeled beneath, a little 

 narrower and longer than the chest ; metapodeon rather large ; oc- 

 toon and following segments shorter : oviduct yellow : legs yellow ; 

 hips green ; tips of feet brown : wings colourless ; veins pale yel- 

 low ; ulna very much shorter than the humerus ; radius longer 

 than the ulna ; cubitus shorter than the ulna ; wing-brand very 

 small. Length of the body f line ; of the wings 1 J line. 



PTEROMALUS Phasis. Mas. Cyaneo-viridis, abdominis disco 

 purpureo-cupreo, antennis tibiisque piceu,femoribus viridibus, 

 tarsisflavis,alis limpidis. Page 119. 



Head and chest bluish green, convex, finely shagreened : head 

 a little broader than the chest ; front blue : eyes and eyelets piceous : 

 feelers filiform, piceous, longer than the chest ; first joint long, slen- 

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

 following joints from the fifth to the tenth linear, of nearly equal 

 size ; club spindle-shaped, more than twice the length of the tenth 

 joint: chest elliptical : fore-chest very short; its length above not 

 more than one-tenth of its breadth ; hind-border concave : shield of 

 the mid-chest broad ; sutures of the parapsides indistinct ; axillae 

 parted by nearly one-fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon 

 subrhomboidal : hind-chest broad, declining, with a ridge along the 

 middle and a rim on each side ; petiole very short : abdomen green, 

 purplish copper on the disk, flat, smooth, increasing in breadth from 

 the base till near the tip, a little narrower and much shorter than the 

 chest ; metapodeon occupying nearly one-third of the back ; octoon 

 and following segments of moderate length : hips and thighs green ; 



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