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shagreened : head as broad as the chest: eyes and eyelets red: 

 feelers very dark tawny, subclavate, longer than the chest ; first 

 joint tawny, long and slender ; 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 rather more than twice its length : chest broad, very 

 short-elliptical : fore-chest rather short ; its length above about one- 

 sixth of its breadth : shield large ; sutures of the parapsides indis- 

 tinct ; axillae parted by rather less than one-third of its breadth ; 

 scutcheon subrhomboidal, with a suture along each side : hind-chest 

 transverse, very short, bright green, almost smooth, with a ridge 

 along the middle and a rim on each side : petiole very short : ab- 

 domen oval, smooth, shining, coppery-purple, bright green at the 

 base, depressed above, rather deeply keeled beneath, a little narrower 

 but hardly longer than the chest ; metapodeon occupying rather 

 more than one-fourth of the back ; octoon and the three following 

 segments rather short, nearly equal ; paratelum longer ; telum very 

 small : legs pale tawny ; hips and thighs green ; four hinder-feet 

 pale yellow with brown tips : wings colourless ; veins tawny ; ulna 

 less than half the length of the humerus ; radius a little longer than 

 the ulna ; cubitus shorter than the ulna ; wing-brand brown, small. 

 Length of the body f line ; of the wings li line. 



PTEROMALUS Dipcenos. Fern. JEneo-viridis, abdomine ceneo, 

 antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus piceis, alls subful- 

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

 very little broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets piceous : feel- 

 ers black, clavate, as long as the chest ; first joint dark tawny, long 

 and slender; second cup-shaped, piceous; third and fourth very 

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

 decreasing in length ; club conical, rather broader than the tenth 

 joint and more than twice its length : chest nearly elliptical : fore- 

 chest very short ; its length above less than one-tenth of its breadth : 

 shield of the mid-chest broad and short ; sutures of the parapsides 

 very indistinct; axillae parted by less than one-third of the breadth 

 of the chest; scutcheon subrhomboidal, with a suture along each 

 side : hind-chest rather short, obconical, declining : petiole very 

 short : abdomen oval, smooth, bronze-colour, bright coppery -green 

 at the base, depressed above, rather deeply keeled beneath, a little 

 longer but hardly broader than the chest ; metapodeon occupying 

 about one-fourth of the back ; octoon shorter than the metapodeon ; 

 ennaton still shorter ; decaton as long as the octoon ; protelum 



