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shanks piceous ; knees, feet, and tips of shanks yellow ; tips of four 

 hinder feet brown : wings colourless ; veins pale tawny ; ulna about 

 half the length of the humerus ; radius a little shorter than the ul- 

 na ; cubitus a little shorter than the radius ; wing-brand very small. 

 Length of the body J line ; of the wings l line. 



PTEROMALUS Cyamon. Mas. Viridis, abdomine purpureo,an- 

 tennis pedibusque fulvis, femoribus piceo vittatis, alls limpi- 

 dis. Page 11 9. 



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

 a little broader than the chest : feelers dark tawny, subclavate, 

 as long as the chest ; first joint tawny, long, linear; second cup- 

 shaped ; third and fourth very small ; the following joints from the 

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

 broader than the tenth joint and more than twice its length : chest 

 elliptical, rather long, with a slight brassy tinge : fore-chest very 

 short; its length above not more than one-tenth of its breadth; 

 hind-border concave :. shield of mid-chest rather long ; sutures 

 of the parapsides very indistinct ; axillae parted by about one-fourth 

 of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon subrhomboidal : hind-chest 

 short, declining, with a rim on each side : petiole very short : abdo- 

 men linear, flat, smooth, dark purple, a little narrower and much 

 shorter than the chest ; metapodeon occupying more than one-third 

 of the back; octoon rather long; the following segments short : legs 

 pale tawny ; hips green ; thighs with a piceous line above, which 

 line in the hind-pair extends over the whole surface of the thighs ; 

 middle- feet and hind-feet yellow with brown tips : wings colourless ; 

 veins pale yellow ; ulna about half the length of the humerus ; ra- 

 dius as long as the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the ulna ; 

 wing-brand very small. Length of the body f line ; of the wings 

 li line. 



PTEROMALUS Hyloe. Fern. Viridis, abdomine ceneo-purpureo 

 basi viridi micante, antennis nigris, pedibus luteis, femoribus 

 viridibus, alis subfulvis. Page 119. 



Head and chest convex, finely shagreened : head dark green, a 

 little broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets red : feelers black, 

 clavate, rather stout, not longer than the chest ; first joint long, 

 tawny, black at the tip ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth very 

 small ; the following joints from the fifth to the tenth successively 

 decreasing in length; club long-conical, not broader than the 

 tenth joint but more than twice its length : chest nearly spindle- 



