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shaped ; third and fourth very minute ; fifth and following joints 

 subquadrate, of moderate size, successively but slightly decreasing 

 in length ; eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth joints forming an oval 

 club which is broader than the tenth joint and more than twice its 

 length : legs yellow ; fore-legs and middle- legs of moderate size ; 

 fore-feet having the first joint long and dilated, the second, third 

 and fourth very small, the fifth longer; middle- feet with the first 

 joint dilated and very long ; the second large, but smaller than the 

 first ; the third, fourth and fifth very short : hind- legs tawny, tinged 

 excepting the feet with bluish purple ; hips very long ; thighs very 

 large, compressed-oval, armed on the inside with several teeth, 

 rather less dilated than those of the female ; shanks curved and fitted 

 to the inside of the thighs ; first and second joints of feet dilated, 

 second much shorter than the first ; third, fourth and fifth pale yel- 

 low, very small; claws and foot-cushions black: wings rather narrow ; 

 fore-wings slightly tinged with brown ; veins tawny ; humerus long ; 

 ulna much shorter ; radius about one-third of the length of the ulna ; 

 cubitus much shorter than the radius ; stigma very small. ^ 300 



Female. Abdomen purple, compressed, nearly as long as the chest, 

 tawny and keeled beneath ; the keel increasing in depth from the 

 base to the tip : oviduct and its sheaths yellow and as long as the 

 body : thighs and hind-hips tinged with bluish purple ; feet simple, 

 first joint long, second and following joints very small. Length of 

 the body li-li line ; of the wings 21 lines. >(irr<ur -,1**',, 



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Sierra Leone. In Mr. Clear's collection. .\ DM l 



Urolepis Cychreus, mas. Cupreus, antennis fulvis, pcdibus rvfes- 

 centibus, alis immaculatis. 



Copper-colour : head and chest convex, very minutely shagreened : 

 head a little broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets piceous ; the 

 latter near together on the crown of the head, the middle one a very 

 little in advance of the other two : front green, slightly impressed : 

 feelers tawny, nearly filiform, rather shorter than the chest; first 

 joint long, slightly curved ; second long cup-shaped ; third and fourth 

 very small ; fifth and five following joints of moderate and nearly 

 equal size ; eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth joints forming a long 

 conical club, which is twice the length of the tenth joint : chest large ; 

 fore-chest short, narrower in front : scutum of the middle-chest 

 broad ; sutures of the parapsides indistinct, especially towards the 

 hind-border where they approach each other ; axillae large, separated 

 by rather less than one -third of the breadth of the scutum ; scutel- 

 lum nearly hexagonal, with a transverse line near its hind-border: 

 hind-chest large, obconical, slightly declining, having a ridge down 

 the middle and one on each side, whereby it is divided into two 

 compartments ; it is rugulose on the outer sides of the compartments, 

 on the tip of whose middle ridge there is a shield-shaped protu- 

 berance : petiole very short : abdomen nearly round, smooth, shining, 

 slightly convex, a little more than half the length of the chest ; first 

 segment large, its disc hollow ; second large ; third and following 



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