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8. ClOCUS MACULATUS. 



Ferrugineus ; caput testaceo maculatum, antice nigro marginatum ; 

 scutum et pectus testacea ; scutellum testaceo trimaculaium ; 

 abdomen rufum, subtus fiavum apice nigrum ,• pedes albidi, 

 tibiis apice nigris,femoribus tibiisque anticis tarsisque fulvis ; 

 alcB antioB picece, basi viridescentes,Jlavo guttatce apice fulvce; 

 alee postic(B sublimpidce, fusco marginatce. 



Ferruginous: bead conical, slightly curved upward, with a 

 slight, narrow, longitudinal furrow, adorned with testaceous spots 

 which are confluent towards the hind border ; fore border black ; 

 face concave on the disk ; sides pitchy, tawny in front of the feelers, 

 with indistinct oblique ridges : shield dull testaceous with darker 

 punctures ; scutcheon with three large, irregular, pale testaceous 

 spots : breast pale testaceous : abdomen red, yellow beneath, with a 

 black tip : legs whitish ; tips of the shanks black ; fore-thighs and 

 fore-shanks tawny; feet tawny with black tips : fore-wings pitchy, 

 greenish with yellow dots towards the base, tawny at the tips and 

 along part of the hind borders : hind-wings almost colourless, brown 

 at the tips and along the hind borders. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Var. |3. Head testaceous, with a ferruginous stripe : breast 

 white : abdomen yellow beneath at the tip : fore-wings with whitish 

 tips. 



Var. y. Back of the abdomen with a black tip. 



a — e. Brazil. 



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9. CiCCUS DIMINUTUS. 



Ferrugineus; fades, scutellum et pectoris disctis picea ; abdominis 

 dorsum piceum basi rufescens ; pedes tibiis apice tarsisque 

 nigris ; aim anticce picece, basi viridi-fulvce, apice luridce ; 

 alee posticce fuscob. 



Ferruginous : head conical, with a longitudinal furrow, widen- 

 ing towards the tip, which is curved upward ; face pitchy, ferrugi- 

 nous towards the front, striated and concave on the disk, with 

 oblique ridges on each side : shield roughly punctured ; scutcheon 

 pitchy with a ferruginous tip : disk of the breast pitchy : abdomen 

 pitchy above, reddish at the base : feet and tips of the shanks black : 

 fore-wings pitchy, dull greenish tawny towards the base, with lurid 



