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half the length of each side, its tip is also hrovvn : mouth tawny 

 with a brown tip reaching the hind-hips : fore-chest almost conical 

 in front, slightly concave along the hind border, surrounded by a 

 brown border ; on each side is a small brown spot near a brown ridge 

 which is parallel to the border : the borders of the shield of the 

 middle-chest are mostly brown, and on each side of its disk it has a 

 brown stripe, which accompanies a slight ridge, and is forked near 

 the fore border, where there is a brown spot in front of it ; two ir- 

 regular brown spots between it and each side : abdomen obconical, 

 partly green, a little longer than the chest ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments brown ; lip compressed, black beneath : legs tawny, slightly 

 grooved ; knees, feet and tips of the shanks mostly brown ; hind- 

 shanks armed with five black-tipped spines ; hind-feet less widened 

 than in most species of the genus : wings slightly tinged with tawny, 

 which prevails most on the fore-wings whose tips are brownish ; 

 brand red, occupying five areolets ; veins of the fore-wings brown, 

 tawny at the base ; of the hind-wings black. Length of the body 

 4^ lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



^5. DlCHOPTERA HERBIDA, MaS. 



Viridis, sublinearis ; caput suhtus fusco bimaculatum ; mesothorax 

 JlavO'viridis ; abdomen thorace multd longius, basi subluteum ; 

 pedes virides ; alee limpidce. 



Body green, nearly linear : no protuberance on the head, which 

 is broader than long ; crown not ridged ; front contracted in the 

 middle and again widening towards the epistoma, with three ridges ; 

 the side pair tawny, with two brown spots between the eyes : mouth 

 green with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : fore-chest short, 

 convex in front, concav^e and slightly notched on the hind border ; 

 the ridges indistinct : middle-chest partly yellow ; its ridges distinct : 

 abdomen slightly tapering towards the tip, much longer than the 

 chest, with a pale luteous tinge towards the base : legs green ; hind- 

 shanks armed with four black-tipped spines; hind-feet hardly 

 widened : wings colourless ; brand green, occupying three or four 

 areolets ; veins green, black towards the tips. Length of the body 

 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



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



