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23. Edessa trifurca. 



Prasina, subtus pallide testacea ; antenna fulvce, apices versus nigra; 

 thorax aspere punclatus, margine liturisque anticis transversis pallide 

 testaceis, anguiis posticis vix cornutis ; scutellum margine antico 

 vittaque trif areata testaceis; abdomen apice vix spinosum ; pectus 

 viridi slrigatum ; venter vitta strigisque transversis fuscis; alee 

 antica? rufce, apud coslam lestacece. 



Grass-green. Head beneath and pectus pale testaceous. Eyes tes- 

 taceous. Antennae tawny, minutely setulose ; second joint rather more 

 than half the length of the third; fourth black, pale testaceous towards the 

 base, longer than the third; fifth warning. Thorax roughly and thinly 

 punctured, with some smooth transverse pale testaceous marks in front and 

 with a pale testaceous slightly elevated rim on each side in front ; hind 

 angles prominent, hardly horned, forming slightly rounded right angles. 

 Scutellum testaceous along the fore border, with a testaceous stripe, which 

 emits an oblique branch on each side, and with a pale testaceous slightly 

 rounded tip. Pectus with transverse pale green streaks on each side. 

 Abdomen beneath with a brown stripe, which is abbreviated hindward, and 

 with transverse brown streaks and with brown sutures on each side; hind 

 angles of the segments acute ; those of the last segment slightly elongated. 

 Let:s testaceous. Fore wings red, thickly and minutely punctured, tes. 

 taceous along the costa ; a slight oblique pale testaceous streak in the 

 disk; membrane ffineous-brown. Length of the body 7 lines. 



Much resembles E.fasciata, but the hind angles of the thorax are 

 less acute. 



a. Mexico, Orizaba. From M. Salle's collection. 



West Indies. 



24. Edessa Acanthaius. 



Cimex Acantharis, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. 710; Brown, Jamaic. 434, pi. 44, 

 f. 11. Suh. Gesch. Ins. 96, pi. 10, f. 8. 



Jamaica. Brazil. 



South America. 



25. Edessa corxuta, C. H. 319. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



b. Tapayos. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



c. d. Amazon Region. Presented by W. W. Saunders, hlsq. 

 e. Archidona. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



26. Edessa Ckhvus, C. II. 320. 



a. Columbia. From M. Goudot's collection. 



/> — r/. Brazil. From Mr. Mornay's collection. 



c—g. Brazil. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



A, i. Brazil. 



/, /,. Cayenne. Presi nted by W. \V. Saunders, Esq. 



/. Amazon Region. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



