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immaculate. Body beneath brownish testaceous ; abdomen, with 

 a zigzag band down each side within the line of stigmata and the 

 sutures, brown. Breast testaceous, punctured with brown, and 

 with a large, dull brown spot on each side. Legs tawny. 

 Rostrum and antennae testaceous. 



a. British Guiana. Presented by Sir Robert Schomburgk. 



13. EDESSA obscura, n. s. 



E. obscure olivacea, punctata; humeris apice nigris; corpore 

 subtus pedibusque fuscis; antennis testaceis, articulo ultimo 

 fusco. S . 

 Long. lin. 7%, lat. hum. 5J. 



Above dull olive ; head, thorax and scutellum rather coarsely 

 and somewhat rugose-punctate. Thorax with the lateral pro- 

 cesses rather slender, not very long, with the apex black and 

 slightly recurved. Scutellum acute. Coriaceous portion of the 

 elytra very finely and thickly punctured, with the nervures testa- 

 ceous ; membrane dark brown, brassy. Abdomen beneath dark 

 brown, smooth and shining, with a few fine punctures on the 

 sides ; the stigmata each with a small tawny spot. Breast olive- 

 brown, thickly punctured, with a large dull brown spot on each 

 side. Legs chestnut-brown. Rostrum pale brown. Antennae 

 testaceous, with the last joint brownish. 

 a. Brazil. 



14. EDESSA reticulata, n. s. 



E. fulva, punctata, thorace antice albido; humeris spinosis, ob- 

 tusis, apice fuscescentibus ; elytris fuscis, flavo-reticulatis, 

 membrana nigro-fusca, aeneo-nitenti ; corpore subtus femo- 

 ribusque luteis, tarsis antennisque ferrugineis. 3 . 

 Long. lin. 8, lat. hum. 6^. 



Head testaceous, rugose. Thorax fulvous, thickly and finely 

 punctured, with the anterior portion yellowish white and impunc- 

 tate ; lateral processes rather long, straight, gradually tapering to 

 the apex, where they form a blunt point; the apex brownish. 

 Scutellum thickly and finely punctured except in the centre of 

 the base, with the apex rather obtuse. Coriaceous portion of 

 the elytra brown, thickly and finely punctured, reticulated with 

 fine, impunctate yellow lines; membrane very dark brown, shining, 

 brassy. Margins of the abdomen fulvous, with minute brown 

 spines at the posterior angles of each segment; apical spines 

 brown. Body beneath dull yellow. Abdomen impunctate, 

 shining, with a fine pale brown line on each suture and a short 

 transverse line of the same colour on each side of each segment. 

 Thighs of the same colour as the under side of the body; tibia? 



