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3. (Edionychis viridis. 



Perty {Del. Anim. p. 110. tab. 22. fig. 6). 



CE. suhtus et femoribus posticis flavis, supra pallide viridis ; chjtris 

 punctato-striatis. 



Long. 2^'", lat. hum. 11'". 



[Long. corp. (secundum tabulam) 2 lin.] 



Habitat in Brasilia asquatoriali. 



Doubtless a Phylacticus, and closely allied to P. olivaceus. Perty 's 

 description of the insect is given in full at page 114. 



It is not possible, with any degree of certainty, to refer any of the 

 species described and figured by Olivier in the sixth volume of his 

 ' Entomologie ' to this group. The size of the insect is in no case 

 given by him ; and the globular inflation of the ultimate joint of 

 the postical tarsus is unnoticed. In the absence, therefore, of type 

 specimens, it would be useless to enumerate here such species as 

 apparently might belong to the genera included in this volume. The 

 same difficulty attaches to the elucidation of the species described by 

 Germar and Fabricius. 



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