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CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Testaceous, narrow. Eyes piceous, very prominent. Rostrum 

 extending a little beyond the fore coxae; second joint longer than the 

 others; tip black. Antennae slender, much shorter than the body ; joints 

 from the first to the third successively decreasing in length ; fourth much 

 longer than the first. Prothorax finely scabrous ; a tawny callus on each 

 side near the fore border; transverse ridge near the hind border piceous, 

 well defined; sides straight; hind angles very obtuse, not prominent. 

 Four anterior femora beneath with two minute black-tipped subapical 

 spines. Hind femora much incrassated, rather more than half the length 

 of the abdomen, red above, black at the tips, with two stout spines beneath 

 beyond the middle. Hind tibia? red, shorter than the hind femora, piceous 

 for half the length from the base, with a thick spine beneath at half the 

 length. Tarsi and four anterior tibiae red. Fore wings with a very broad 

 black streak, which occupies more than half the length of the coriutn from 

 the tip ; veins wholly testaceous; membrane brown. Length of the body 

 8 lines. 



a. Amazon Region. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



8. HlRILCUS PALLIDUS. 



Mas. Testaceus, gracilis ; antenna rufa, gracillima, corpore breviores ; 

 prothorax subliliter scaber, macula margineque postico piceis, angiitis 

 posticis oblusis non prominulis ; femora postica valde incrassata, 

 abdominis dimidio aquilonga, apice picea ; tibiae postica rufa, basi 

 pallidiores, femoribus posticis breviores ; alee anticce nigra, Jiavo 

 venosa, membrana fuscescente. 



Male. Testaceous, slender. Eyes piceous, prominent. Rostrum 

 extending a little beyond the fore coxae ; tip piceous. Antennae red, very 

 slender, somewhat shorter than the body ; joints from the first to the third 

 successively decreasing in length ; fourth much longer than the first. 

 Prothorax finely scabrous, with a callus on each side near the fore border; 

 a piceous spot extending from the disk to the hind border, which is also 

 piceous; sides straight; hind angles very obtuse, not prominent. Four 

 anterior femora beneath with two minute black-tipped spines. Hind 

 femora much incrassated, about half the length of the abdomen, piceous at 

 the tips, armed beneath with two stout spines near the tips. Hind tibiae 

 red, paler towards the tips, rather broad, shorter than the hind femora. 

 Fore wings black; veins pale yellow; membrane brownish. Length of 

 the body 8 lines. 



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



9. HlRILCUS? VIRESCENS. 



Meropachys virescens, Erichs. Schomb. Reise Guiana, iii. 612. 

 Guiana. 



Genus 20. PERANTHUS. 

 Peranthus, Stal, Ofv. V. Ak. Fork. 1867, 536. Hem. Fabr. 42. 



