392 Mr. F. Walker's Notes on Clialcicl'ites, 



pubescent, large, prominent. Antennae black, slender, nearly 

 filiform, seated by the mouth, not longer than the thorax. Thorax 

 partly blue or purple ; disk of the scutum and scutellum, except 

 the tip, aeneous. Abdomen lanceolate, finely punctured, flat above, 

 keeled beneath, golden-green beyond the middle, purple at the 

 tip, very much longer than the thorax. Legs red ; fore-femora 

 dilated and forming an edge beneath, except towards the tips. 

 Wings cinereous. Fore-wings with a blackish discal stripe, not 

 extending to the tip of the abdomen ; veins black ; ulna nearly as 

 long as the humerus, longer than the radius. 



Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. • 



Para. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Museum. 



Epistenia basalts. 

 Foem. — Lsete cyaneo-viridis ; antennae nigrae ; thorax suturis 

 purpurascentibus ; abdoinen aeneo-viride, lanceolatum, sci- 

 tissime punctatum, basi cupreo-rufum, apice purpurascens ; 

 pedes rufi; femora antica incrassata ; alee cinerese. 



Female. — Bright bluish-green. Head and thorax finely punc- 

 tured. Head bright green, broader than the thorax ; face oblique. 

 Eyes pubescent. Antennae black, seated near the mouth ; scape 

 green. Thorax purplish about the sutures. Abdomen aeneous- 

 green, lanceolate, very finely punctured, flat above, hardly keeled 

 beneath, bright cupreous-red at the base, purplish at the tip, very 

 much longer than the thorax, extending much beyond the fore- 

 wings. Legs bright red; fore-femora incrassated. Wings 

 cinereous ; veins black ; ulna shorter than the humerus, a little 

 longer than the radius. 



Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Tapayos. Discovered by Mr. Bates. In the British Museum. 



Epistenia CBqualis. 

 Fcem. — Laete cyaneo-viridis ; caput antice bituberculatum ; an- 

 tennae nigrae ; scutellum aeneo-viride ; abdomen breve, lan- 

 ceolatum, glabrum, apice purpurascens ; pedes nigri ; tarsi 

 albidi ; alse fusco-cinerese. 



Female. — Bright bluish-green. Head and thorax roughly 

 scabrous or very largely punctured, as in Perilampus. Head 

 aeneous hindward, with a protuberance on each side in front, a 

 little broader than the thorax; face extremely oblique, nearly 

 horizontal. Antennae black, stout, filiform, seated far from the 

 mouth, not longer than the thorax. Scutellum aeneous-green. 



