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PTEROMALUS Lampe. Fern. Viridis, abdomine aneo-viridi 

 disco purpureo-cupreo, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, alis 

 limpidis. Page 121. 



Head and chest brassy, convex, finely shagreen ed : head hardly 

 hroader than the chest : eyes and eyelets dark red : feelers black, 

 clavate, a little longer than the chest ; first joint long, slender, 

 tawny ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth very small ; the fol- 

 lowing joints to the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club 

 long-conical, a little broader than the tenth joint and more than 

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

 above not one-tenth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest rather 

 short and broad ; sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; axilla 

 parted by full one-third of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon 

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

 rate size, obconical, declining, almost smooth, with a ridge along 

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

 long-elliptical, smooth, brassy green, bright green at the base, de- 

 pressed above, hardly keeled beneath, much longer but not narrower 

 than the chest ; disk purplish bronze ; metapodeon occupying less 

 than one-fourth of the back ; octoon and four following segments 

 of nearly equal size; telum very short : legs tawny ; hips brass co- 

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

 veins tawny ; ulna about half the length of the humerus ; radius 

 longer than the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the ulna ; wing- 

 brand pale brown, very small. Length of the body 1^ line ; of the 

 wings 2J lines. 



PTEROMALUS Anchinoe. Mas. Cupreus, abdomine basi viridi 

 micante, antennis nigris, pedibus flams, femoribus cupreis y alis 

 limpidis. Page 121. 



Head and chest dark copper colour, convex, finely shagreened : 

 head a little broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets dark red : 

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

 very slender; second cup-shaped; third and fourth very small ; the 

 following joints to the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club 

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

 thrice its length : chest elliptical : fore-chest very short ; its length 

 not more than one-tenth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest ra- 

 ther flat above ; sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; axillae 

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

 rhomboidal : hind-chest smooth, declining, rather short : petiole 

 very short : abdomen nearly linear, depressed, smooth, bright green 



