in the British Museum. 373 



Stcelonchodes gracillimus, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 100-116 ram. 



Male. — Long and slender, rufous or rufous-brown, more or 

 less varied with blackish bronze or olive-green ; antennae 

 bronzed ; head and pronotum rufous ; mesonotum, metanotum, 

 and median segment bronzy brown, except at their extre- 

 mities, which are rufous ; one specimen, however, is uniform 

 olive-green over nearly the whole of these parts ; abdomen 

 either bronzy black, with tawny bands at the extremities of 

 the segments, or rufous as far as the sixth or seventh segment 

 and black beyond, with or without two white spots at the end 

 of segments 8 and 9 ; legs very long and slender, the middle 

 legs somewhat shorter than the others; all the femora 

 rufous nearly to the extremity ; the rest of the legs bronzy 

 black above and somewhat paler below ; middle and hind 

 femora finely serrated beneath towards the extremities, hind 

 femora extending beyond the base of the sixth segment of the 

 abdomen. 



Hab. Tonkin (Than Moi), June and July (Fruhstorfer). 



Allied to S. proton and stomphaw, Westw., but larger. 

 The very long and slender legs, with red femora, are very 

 characteristic. 



Genus Lonchodes, Gray et auct. 

 Dixippus, StSl. 



Gray's description of this genus and of his first species, 

 L. longipes, clearly indicates that as the type. 



Lonchodes (?) viridis, sp. n. 



Female. — Bright green, with the following exceptions: — 

 antennae, except towards the base, a square spot at the extre- 

 mity of ihe first four segments of the abdomen (reckoning the 

 median segment as the first), and a dot on the sides of each 

 corresponding suture black or blackish ; and a salmon-coloured 

 streak on the sides of the meso- and metanotum, separated 

 below by a green line from a salmon-coloured line, bordered 

 below by a yellow one. Legs short, of nearly equal length ; 

 femora thick, straight, except for the usual curve at the base 

 of the front femora, and with a semicircular lobe at the 

 extremity of each lower carina, those on the front femora 

 small, those on the others conspicuous. First joint of front 

 tibiae lobate above and nearly as long as the remaining joints. 

 Head and body unarmed, but with a fine carina running 



