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Antennae inserted near the epistoma, 12-jointed, tlie second 

 joint smallest, front deeply excavated ; hind femora minutely 

 denticulated below ; nervures of the wings well marked. 



15. Sttpittea. (Plate III. figs. 28-30.) 

 Allied to Comira, but placed by Sichel in Pliasgonopliora, 

 Type Clialcis conigastra, Perty, Del. Auim. Art. p. 134,pl.xxvi. 

 fig. 16 (1834), from the Amazons. 



Antennse 11-jointed, pubescent, moderately stout, second joint 

 short, cup-shaped, third small, the rest of uniform thickness ; 

 scape rather short, inserted high up in the face, about opposite 

 the middle of the eyes ; sutures of the mesothorax indicated ; 

 scutellum with a bidentate projection beliind ; metathorax with 

 two teeth on each side ; abdomen subpetiolate, conical, the first 

 two segments of equal length, much longer than the remainder, 

 short ; the abdomen itself smooth and shining, but produced into 

 a rather stout stylus of equal length, and covered with shaggy 

 hair ; hind femora with one large tooth and six smaller teeth. 



16. Phasgonophoea. (Plate III. figs. 31-33.) 

 Phasgonopliora, Westw. GrrifF. An. Kingd. xv, p. 432 (1832). 

 Type P. sulcata, "Westw. I. c. pi. Ixxvii. fig. 2, from Greorgia. 

 Antennse 13-jointed, imusually long and slender, and abso- 

 lutely uniform in thickness throughout, inserted just below the 

 eyes, scape long, second joint short, third and fourth very 

 minute, these joints bare, the remainder pubescent ; scutellum 

 unarmed ; metathorax with two very short teeth on each side ; 

 abdomen as in Stypiura, but only with short bristles, and strongly 

 punctured towards the base ; hind femora with twelve teeth, the 

 first, fourth, and fifth large and widely separated, second and 

 third minute, fifth to twelfth gradually decreasing in size ; wings 

 rather short, 



17. Teigonuea. (Plate lY. figs. 1, 2.) 

 Trigonura, Sich. Ann. Soe. Ent. Pr. (4) v. p. 376 (1865). 

 Type Fliasgono])1wra crassicauda, Sich. I. c. p. 377, pi. x. fig. 1, 

 from Mexico. 



Sichel regards this genus as a section of Phasgonophora, and 

 distinguishes it as follows : — " Abdomine latiori, ovoideo, minus 

 vel vix compresso ; segmeuto prime solo longissimo, reliquorum 

 brevium simul sumtorum lougitudinem asquante ; caudanon com- 

 pressa, ensiformi, sed depressa, latiuscula, subtriangulari." 



