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with a suture along each side : hind-chest rather large, obconical, 

 declining, with a ridge along the middle; its fore-shield tolerably 

 long : petiole very short : abdomen black, smooth, shining, de- 

 pressed, nearly linear, with a large tawny spot near the base, a little 

 longer and much narrower than the chest : legs pale yellow ; hips 

 black ; tips of feet tawny : wings colourless, ample ; veins tawny ; 

 ulna a little longer than the humerus ; radius next to none ; cubi- 

 tus not one-fourth of the length of the ulna ; wing-brand very 

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



TETRASTICHUS Bermius. Mas. Niger, abdomine <meo, anten- 

 nisfulvis, pedibus flaws, alls limpidis. Page 151. 



Head and chest black, convex, smooth, shining : head as broad 

 as the chest : eyes and eyelets bright red : feelers slender, filiform, 

 pale tawny, adorned with long hairs, nearly as long as the body ; 

 first and second joints pale yellow : chest short : shield of the mid- 

 chest broad ; sutures of the parapsides very distinct ; scutcheon 

 short, with a suture along each side : abdomen bronze-colour, linear, 

 depressed, shorter and narrower than the chest : legs pale yellow : 

 wings colourless, deeply fringed ; veins tawny ; ulna nearly as long 

 as the humerus ; radius next to none ; cubitus as usual ; wing- 

 brand very small. Length of the body ^ line j of the wings 1J 

 line. 



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