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whitish, conical, with a yellow stripe on each side, a little longer 

 than broad : abdomen ferruginous above, with a bright yellow band 

 towards the tip: legs whitish: wings limpid, rather broad, adorned 

 with bright purple reflections ; veins pale green, with very few black 

 bands ; second series of the gradate veinlets mostly black ; margi- 

 nal region broad, especially towards the base; stigma brown, short. 



Var. &. Antennae reddish at the base: hind border of the pro- 

 thorax luteous : disk of the mesothorax and of the metathorax fer- 

 ruginous, with six yellow dots : abdomen above and stigma paler. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Brazil, 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



42. CHBYSOPA NIGROVARIA. 



Flava , caput fusco varium ; thorax nonnunquam nigro varius ; 

 antenna supra basi nigricantes ; abdomen nigro vittatum ; 

 aide limpidce, venulis transversis nigro variis, stigmate fusco. 



Pale yellow : head with a broad brown band beneath the an- 

 tennae, and with a slender undulating brown band on the front : an- 

 tennae blackish above towards the base: prothorax broader than 

 long, a little narrower in front, with a black stripe on each side : 

 segments of the mesothorax and of the metathorax with black 

 borders : abdomen with a black dorsal stripe : wings limpid ; costal 

 region moderately broad ; two complete series of gradate veinlets ; 

 cubital areolet full half the size of the adjoining subcubital areolet ; 

 veinlets of the cubitus and of the two sectors towards the base and 

 gradate veinlets partly black, hind-wing veins of one colour ; stigma 

 brown. Length of the body 3J lines; of the wings J5 lines. 



Var. , Head with only a brown dot in front of the antennae ; 

 brown band on the front very narrow: prothorax with a red stripe 

 on each side : thorax without black marks : abdomen with a blackish 

 stripe on each side, but without a dorsal stripe. 



a, b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



