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19!^ CHARACTERS OF SOME UNDESCRIBED 



Gen. 1053. — Euptervx. Curt. 



Face subtrigonate, the head appearing crescent-shaped above ; 

 rostrum short and lanceolate : antennae inserted in a cavity under 

 each eye, triarticulate, 1st and 2d joints stout, the former sub- 

 globose, the latter oblong, 3d very slender, and terminated by a 

 fine long seta : ocelli none : thorax small, transverse, scutellum 

 triangular : superior wings narrowed and rounded, with a few 

 indistinct nervures ; inferior transparent with a few nervures : 

 legs rather slender, posterior long ; the tibiae clothed with spiny 

 bristles from the base to the apex outside ; pectinated with spines 

 on the inside, except at the base : tarsi triarticulate, elongated in 

 the hinder pair, the basal joint being the longest, the terminal 

 one the shortest. 



7. Hortensis. Curt. 



Greenish sulphur : sides of face, 2 minute dots in front, and 2 spots 

 on the crown black : thorax with 8 black spots, scutellum with 2 

 at the base, the former with a double fuscous line down the back : 

 abdomen black : superior wings with many brownish spots be- 

 tween the nervures, leaving 2 yellow oval ones on the costa, and 

 a minute one towards the apex : posterior thighs spotted with 

 fuscous, their tibise black, except at the base, the tarsi white 

 tipped with fuscous. (Length I3 line.) 

 I found several of these insects in a garden in the Isle of 



Wight, the middle of October ; it is distinguished at once from 



the type of our genus '(C. picta, Fab.) by its black posterior 



tibiae. 



^ Gen. 1054. — Amblycephalus. Curt. 



Face elongate-trigonate including the clypeus : head viewed above, 

 limate : ocelli 2 on the crown : eyes prominent : rostrum short, 

 stout, and cylindrical : antennae inserted before the eyes in a cavity, 

 triarticulate, basal joint the stoutest, chalice-shaped, 2d shorter ovate, 

 3d a bristle as long as the head : thorax narrower than the head, 

 transverse ovate : scutellum triangular : abdomen rather long and 

 conical in the female : superior wings a little longer than the 

 body, subovate, the inferior margin nearly straight, inferior wings 

 rounded, all with many distinct nervures : posterior tibije long, 

 thin, and slightly curved, clothed irregularly with spines exter- 

 nally, pectinated internally, except at the base : tarsi triarticulate, 

 basal joint the longest in the posterior pair. 

 ^3. Germari. Curt. 



Dull ochreous white, finely pubescent : head piceous, round the eyes 



