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following joints to the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club 

 spindle-shaped, a little broader than the tenth joint and more than 

 twice its length : chest nearly elliptical : fore-chest very short ; its 

 length less than one-tenth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest 

 short ; sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; axillae parted by 

 nearly one-third of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon subrhom- 

 boidal, with a suture along each side : hind-chest transverse, short, 

 declining, with a ridge along the middle and a rim on each side : 

 petiole very short: abdomen long-oval, smooth, depressed above, 

 rather deeply keeled beneath, longer but not narrower than the 

 chest ; disk bronze colour ; metapodeon occupying hardly one- 

 fourth of the chest ; octoon and following segments of equal size : 

 legs luteous ; hips and thighs, except their tips, green ; tips of four 

 hinder-feet brown : wings with a slight tawny tinge ; veins yellow ; 

 ulna rather less than half the length of the humerus ; radius a little 

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

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



PTEROMALUS Cercaphras. Mas. jEneo-viridis, abdomine viri- 

 di-aneo, antennis pedibusque fulvis^ femoribus viridibus, alls 

 limpidis. Page 121. 



Body short, broad : head and chest coppery-green, convex, 

 finely shagreened : head large, broader than the chest : eyes and 

 eyelets red : feelers tawny, clavate, a little shorter than the chest ; 

 first joint long, slender, green ; second black, cup-shaped ; third 

 and fourth very small ; the following joints to the tenth short and 

 successively decreasing in length ; club conical, a little broader 

 than the tenth joint and more than twice its length : chest short- 

 oval : fore-chest very short ; its length above not more than one- 

 tenth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest short ; sutures of the 

 parapsides very indistinct ; axillae parted by one-fifth of the breadth 

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

 side and a slight transverse channel near the tip : hind-chest trans- 

 verse, short, declining, nearly smooth, with a slight ridge along the 

 middle and a rim on each side : petiole very short : abdomen coni- 

 cal, depressed, smooth, much narrower than the chest and hardly 

 more than half its length, bright copper-colour tinged with green ; 

 metapodeon occupying the greater part of the back : legs tawny ; 

 hips and thighs green ; tips of shanks, knees and feet of four hinder- 

 legs yellow ; tips of feet brown : wings colourless ; veins yellow ; 

 ulna about half the length of the humerus ; radius nearly as long as 

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

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



