5:30 CATALOGUE OF 



Platynopus biguttatus. 

 Canlhecona biguttata, Vollenh. Pent. 8, pi. 1, f. 6. 

 Am. 

 Var. ? a. Batchian. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



Platynopus puupurascens. 



Purpureo-rufesccns, sublus viridis ; caput subtus pallide luteum, lateribus 

 viridibus ; antenna fulvcc, gracillimce, articulo 3o apicem versus Aoque 

 nigris, bo albo apice nigro ; thorax maculis duabus discoidatibus 

 slrigisque duabus lalcralibus pallide luleis, spinis lonyis postice incisis ; 

 scutellum macula basali magna nigro-viridi, strigis duabus posticis 

 fusccscentibus indeterminatis ; abdomen lateribus pallide luleis, spina 

 ventrali brevissima; pedes pallide lutei, femoribus nigro conspcrsis, 

 tibiis anlicis non dilatatis ; alee anlica cosla apiceque luteo consperstc, 

 membrana fusca villis duabus diaphanis. 



Reddish, elongate-oval, roughly punctured, bright green beneath. 

 Head and thorax tiDged with purplish. Head bright preen on each side, 

 pale luteous beneath. Rostrum pale luteous, blackish at the tip. Antennae 

 tawny, very slender; third joint black towards the tip; fourth black; fifth 

 while, black towards the tip. Thorax very slightly keeled, with a pale 

 luteous streak including a callus along each side, and with a pale luteous 

 callus on each side of the disk; spines long, slender, notched behind at 

 their tips. Scutellum pale luteous, with a large blackish green spot on the 

 fore border and with two posterior irregular brownish streaks. Abdomen 

 pale luteous along each side; apical segment forming two short spines; 

 ventral spine not extending beyond the hind coxa;. Legs pale luteous ; 

 femora speckled with black ; fore tibia; not dilated. Fore wings speckled 

 with pale luteous along the costa and about the exterior border ; membrane 

 brown, pellucid along the fore border and along the hind border. Length 

 of the body 5-£ lines. 



Most allied to P. dutatus, from which the difference of the markings 

 of the thorax will distinguish it. 



a. Ceram. Presented by \V. VV. Saunders, Esq. 



Genus AG ERRUS. 

 Agerrus, Stal, O/v. K. Vet. Ah. Fork. 1858, 431 — Bodetria ? page 1 l!>. 



l. Agerrus kemipes. 

 remipee, Stal, O/v. K. Vet. Ah. Fork. 1858, 434. 

 Surinam. 



