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and following segments short : legs black ; knees and fore-feet 

 tawny ; four hinder-feet yellow with brown tips : wings colourless ; 

 veins tawny ; ulna more than half the length of the humerus ; ra- 

 dius not longer than the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the 

 radius ; wing-brand extremely small. Length of the body J line ; 

 of the wings 1^ line. 



PTEROMALUS Co3no. Mas. Aureo-viridis, abdominis disco pur- 

 pureo ceneo, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus viridi- 

 bus, alls limpidis. Page 120. 



Golden green : head and chest convex, finely shagreened : 

 head hardly broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets dark red : 

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

 slender, yellow at the base ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth 

 very small ; the following joints to the tenth successively decreasing 

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

 tenth joint : chest nearly oval : fore-chest very short ; its length 

 hardly more than one-tenth of its breadth : sutures of the parapsides 

 rather indistinct, especially towards the hind-border of the shield ; 

 axillas as usual with a suture along the middle, parted by full one- 

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

 a suture along each side, and a slight transverse channel near 

 the tip : hind-chest rather short, slightly obconical, declining, almost 

 smooth, with a ridge along the middle and a rim on each side : pe- 

 tiole very short : abdomen smooth, depressed, slightly increasing in 

 breadth from the base till near the tip, very little shorter and nar- 

 rower than the chest ; disk purplish bronze ; segments of nearly 

 equal size : sexual parts brown : legs tawny ; hips and thighs 

 green ; four hinder-knees and feet pale tawny ; tips of the latter 

 brown : wings colourless ; veins tawny ; ulna not less than half the 

 length of the humerus ; radius longer than the ulna ; cubitus 

 shorter than the ulna ; wing-brand small. Length of the body 1 J 

 line ; of the wings 2^ lines. 



Var. /3, Abdomen bluish green. 



PTEROMALUS Corion. Fern. Cyaneus, abdomine purpureo- 

 aneo, basi viridi micante, antennis pedibusque anticis fulvis, 

 femoribus piceis, tibiis fuscis, tarsis flavis, alis limpidis. 

 Page 120. 



Head and chest blue, convex, finely shagreened : head a little 

 broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets dark red : feelers tawny, 

 slender, subclavate, a little longer than the chest ; first joint pale 



