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PTEROMALUS Morys. Mas. Viridis, abdomine purpureo-cupreo , 

 basi cyaneo-viridi, antennis fulvis, pedibus flams, alls limpi- 

 dis. Page 125. 



Bright green : head and chest convex, finely shagreened : 

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

 suhclavate, a little longer than the chest ; first joint bright yellow ; 

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

 joints from the fifth to the tenth short and successively decreasing 

 in length ; club elliptical, much more than twice the length of the 

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

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

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

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

 boidal : hind-chest of moderate size, short-obconical, declining, 

 with a ridge along the middle : petiole very short : abdomen nearly 

 linear, flat, smooth, purplish copper on the disk, bluish green at the 

 base, a little narrower but hardly shorter than the chest ; metapo- 

 deon occupying rather more than one-fourth of the back ; octoon 

 and ennaton rather large ; the following segments very short : legs 

 bright yellow ; hips green ; tips of feet brown : wings colourless ; 

 veins tawny ; ulna brown, very thick, more than half the length of 

 the huraerus ; radius longer than the ulna ; cubitus more than 

 half the length of the ulna ; wing-brand very small. Length of 

 the body f line ; of the wings 1J- line. 



PTEROMALUS Elyros. Mas. Viridis, abdomine purpureo-cu- 

 preo, macula basaliflava, antennis nigris, pedibus flams, meta- 

 femoribus fusco vittatis, alis limpidis. Page 125. 



Body long and narrow : head and chest convex, finely sha- 

 greened : head bluish green, much broader than the chest : eyes 

 and eyelets red : feelers black, filiform, longer than the chest ; first 

 joint long, slender, piceous, yellow towards the base ; second cup- 

 shaped, piceous; third and fourth very small ; the following joints 

 from the fifth to the tenth long, linear, but successively decreasing 

 in length ; club linear, conical at the tip, more than twice the 

 length of the tenth joint : chest green, spindle-shaped : fore-chest 

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

 hind-border slightly concave : shield of the mid-chest rather long ; 

 sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; axillae parted by about 

 one-fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon subrhomboidal, 

 with a slight trace of a transverse ridge near its tip : hind-chest 

 well developed, obconical, slightly declining, with a rim on each 



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