222 HEMEHOBIDES. 



29. MANTISPA VIRESCENS. 



Pallide viridi-flava ; antennae, rufescentes, apice obscurce ; alee albi- 

 do-hyalince, venis viridi-flavis ciliatis,pterostigmate.concolore. 



Mantispa virescens, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 433, 5. Westw. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond, new ser. i. 256, 29. 



Equal to the smallest size of M. pagana : antennae a little long- 

 er: prothorax a little thicker: anterior tibiae shorter and broader : 

 stigma very long, slightly villose: median longitudinal row of 

 areolets with their lateral ^eins much sinuated. 



Mantispa viridula ? Erichs. 



30. MANTISPA GRACILIS. 



Rufescens ; antennae nigricantes, basi pallidce ; abdomen cinereo- 

 fuscum, flavo subnebulosum ; pedes albidi, tibice anticce sub- 

 rufescentes, antice striatce ; alee hyalince. 



Mantispa gracilis, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 433, 6. Westw. 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. new ser. i. 256, 30. 

 Mantispa iridipennis ? Guer. Icon. Regn. Anim. Ins. 392. Flava ; 



antennce apice fuscce ; alee hyalince, Icete iridescentes^ venis stig- 



mateque flavis. 



Size of M. pagana; eyes larger, more prominent, more ap- 

 proximate, more excavated behind the antennae : face with a black 

 line : antennae paler at the base : prothorax more slender, more 

 gibbose, less dilated in front : anterior tibiae with a dark line on their 

 inner side : veins yellowish, slightly varied with brown : stigma a 

 little narrower than that of M. pagana. 



Colombia. 



31. MANTISPA APICALIS. 



Obscure fusca ; epistomate, abdominis basi supra cingulisque tribus 

 pone medium utrinque flavis ; alis subcequalibus,anticis dilute 

 flavo-fuscis, apice extremo fuscis, posticis limpidis, ad margi- 

 nem exteriorem dilute flavo-fuscis. Long. 7 lin. 



Mantispa apicalis, Loew, Germ. Zeit. iv. 433. Westw. Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. new ser. i. 257, 31. 



Rhodes. 



