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at the base, shorter and narrower than the chest ; disk copper colour ; 

 metapodeon occupying less than one-third of the back ; octoon, en- 

 naton, and decaton rather long ; the following segments very 

 short: legs yellow; hips and thighs dark copper colour; four 

 hinder-feet with brown tips ; fore-shanks and fore-feet pale tawny : 

 wings colourless ; veins tawny ; ulna rather thick, more than half 

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

 shorter than the radius ; wing-brand small, brown. Length of the 

 body f line ; of the wings l line. 



PTEROMALUS Gallonius. Mas. Cyaneus, abdomine cupreo basi 

 cyaneo-viridi, antennis nigris, pedibus fulvis, femoribus piceis, 

 alls limpidis. Page 121. 



Head and chest blue, convex, very finely shagreened, so as to 

 appear almost smooth : head much broader than the chest : eyes 

 and eyelets piceous ; feelers black, subclavate, very slender, a little 

 longer than the chest ; first joint long, slender, cup-shaped ; third 

 and fourth very small ; the following joints to the tenth long, linear, 

 but successively decreasing in length ; club spindle-shaped, broader 

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

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

 tenth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest long, rather flat ; su- 

 tures of the parapsides indistinct ; axillae parted by less than one- 

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

 chest rather short, obconical, declining : petiole very short : abdo- 

 men nearly linear, depressed, smooth, copper colour, bluish-green at 

 the base, a little shorter and narrower than the chest ; metapodeon 

 occupying more than one-third of the back ; octoon and following 

 segments of nearly equal size : legs tawny ; hips blue ; thighs pi- 

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

 rather small ; veins tawny ; ulna about half the length of the 

 humerus ; radius a little shorter than the ulna ; cubitus nearly 

 as long as the radius ; wing-brand small. Length of the body 1 

 line ; of the wings 1 J line. 



PTEKOMALUS Eleuthera. Fern. JEneo-viridis, abdomine pur- 

 pureo-cupreo basi cyaneo-viridi, antennis nigris, pedibus rufis, 

 alis subfulvis. Page 121. 



Head and chest convex, shagreened : head green, a little 

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

 filiform, longer than the chest; first joint long, slender, tawny, pi- 

 ceous at the tip ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth very small ; 



