EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Plate I. 
Fig. 1. Pneumora scutellaris, of the natural size. The fe- 
male is apterous, pale-green with white spots, largest on the 
thorax, and yellowish ones on the abdomen, both arranged in 
longitudinal series and margined with red; three on each side 
of the dorsal carina, forming little oblique bands; edges of the 
thorax denticulated.—Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle; brought 
from the Cape of Good Hope by Lalande. 
Fig.2. Nemestrina longirostris, of the natural size, described 
under its specific name by M. Wiedemann. It is blackish and 
furnished with a yellowish down, and several pearl-grey spots 
on the thorax and abdomen; this last part of the body is crossed 
transversely by blackish and russet bands; the spots are placed 
on the former; sides provided with bundles of black hairs. The 
wings are blackish and marked with little spots, and the pos- 
terior margin is transparent. The proboscis is from three to 
four times the length of the body. The legs are russet. From 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
Fig. 3. Coreus phyllomorphus (subgenus Syromastss) of the 
natural size. This species is allied to the Coreus paradoxus of 
Fabricius, but is rather less pilose and proportionally. shorter 
and wider; the abdomen is almost square, and its lateral edges 
exhibit three dentations anteriorly and two lobes behind; each 
side of the posterior edge is marked by a little incisure. The 
sides of the body are slightly turned up, it is greyish and 
somewhat diaphanous and veined; its edges and the first joint 
of the antennz are bristled with little spines. From Senegal; 
where it was taken by M. Dumolin of the Navy, who sent it to 
M. Guerion by whom it was presented to the Paris Museum. 
Fig. 4. Synagris spiniventer, of the natural size. The female 
is black, with violet-blue wings, and the posterior extremity of 
the abdomen saffron; the under part of the second ring is armed 
Vou. I1V.—3 D 
