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3. Phyllopalpus comptus. 



Fceru. Piceus, gracilis, subpilosus, subtus fulvus ; antenna nigra, graciles, 

 nigro late fascial/? ; oviduclus f/rrugineus, vix arcuatus, abdomine 

 lonyior ; pedes picei, longiusculi, gracillimi, tibiis tarsisque fulvis, 

 tibiis posticis bispinosis ; alee anticte abdomine paullo breviures ; aloe 

 posticte corpore longiores. 



Female. Piceous, slender, tawny beneath. Head shining, tawny 

 about the mouth, vertex and prothorax slightly pilose. Eyes black. 

 Antenna black, slender, with a broad white baud. Oviduct ferruginous, 

 hardly curved, longer than the abdomen. Legs piceous, rather long, very 

 slender; tibiae and tarsi tawny; hind tibiae with two short slender spines. 

 Fore wings a little shorter than the abdomen. Hind wings longer than the 

 body. Length of the body 2f lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



4. Phyllopalpus elegans. 



Fosm. Niger, gracilis, subpilosus ; caput albo fasciatum, antice sublus- 

 que luleuni ; antennce gracillima, albo late fasciatce, corpore plus 

 duplo longiores ; prothorax luleo Iristrigalis, albido antice mar. 

 ginatus ; cerci fulvi, breves ; oviduclus fulvus, arcuatus, abdomine 

 paullo brevior ; pedes fulvi, longi, gracillime nigro vitlati ; alee 

 antica cervina, viridi viltata, basi upiceque albo nigroque nolahe ; 

 ala postictc nulla. 



Female. Black, slender, slightly pilose. Head luleous in front and 

 beneath, with a narrow white band between the eyes. Antennae very 

 slender, more than twice the length of the body, with a white band at one- 

 fourth of the length. Prothorax with a narrow whitish fore border and with 

 three luteous longitudinal streaks, the middle streak in advance of the other 

 two. Cerci tawny, very slender, less than half the length of the abdomen. 

 Oviduct tawny, curved upward, a little shorter than the abdomen. Legs 

 tawny, long, very slender ; femora and the four anterior tibia; striped with 

 black; hind tibia; with three slender wide apart spiues on each side. Fore 

 wings fawn-colour, extending to the tip of the abdomen, with a white spot 

 and a black dot at the base, and with a grass-green stripe, which extends 

 along the lateral keel and ends in a white spot; subcostal^space pellucid for 

 half the length from the base, black from thence to the spot; inner border 

 of the right fore wing grass-green from the base to three-fourths of the 

 length. Hind wings not apparent. Length of the body 3 lines. 



a. Sanlarem. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



5. Phyllopalpus pulchek. 



Foetn. Niger, gracilis ; caput prothorace latins, vertice frontaque ockru- 

 ceis ; palpi articulo 3o dilaluto ; antenna longa, gracillimtc, albo 

 late fascia la, basi ochracea ; prothorax ochraceo trivittatus et quadri- 

 gullalus ; oviduclus fulvus, arcuatus; pedes longi, gracillimi, albido 

 vittati ; a/tc anticte ferruginccs, abdomen paullo superanles, basi 



