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This appears to connect the Hupteryx hortensis and E. tarsalis, 
of Curtis. I have still another form, found at Berwick, which 
appears to be the /. melissce of this author. 
Genus I.—DIKRANEURA, Hardy WSS. 
Head somewhat pointed, triangulate, the crown very faintly 
ridged ; face long; occelli not perceived; antennae moderate; 
elytra nerved nearly as in aphrodes, the small cell under the costa 
wanting; wings with the upper nervures disposed in two forks, 
the upper opening inwardly on the base, the second and shorter 
pronged outwardly on the apex, no apparent cross nervures. 
1. D. VaRiata. 
Small, narrow, the elytra tapered to a point posteriorly, light 
yellowish green; head and thorax yellow, polished and shining ; 
face yellow, but sometimes dusky in the centre, with appearance 
of faint ribs, sometimes the middle plate is bounded by fuscous 
lines, which are occasionally produced up to the front, where they 
form a faint horse-shoe arch, within which there is a curved patch 
on the peak; sides of the head on the summit faintly duskier, 
leaving a brighter stripe up the centre, where it is very slightly 
elevated ; eyes subtestaceous, with a whitish coat; bristle of the 
antennee short; thorax transverse-lunate, posteriorly of the same 
breadth as the hinder margin of the head, the disc sometimes 
greenish, or slightly dusky; scutellum pointed, two impressed 
approximating punctures behind the base, followed by a sunk 
transverse stria, and then occasionally by a puncture; elytra pale 
yellowish, pale greenish yellow, or glaucous green, becoming at 
length sub-hyaline, and faintly tarnished with fuscous towards 
the apex, the nervures yellowish, at length whitish; wings 
slightly darkened, the nervures nigrescent, especially the furcate 
ones ; abdomen bluish black, some of the segments, especially at 
the sides, narrowly bordered posteriorly with white, a yellowish 
band at the base, and another, sometimes also a third before the 
apex, yellow; beneath, with a narrow stripe on the sides, the 
posterior edges of the segments, and the apical one entirely, 
yellow, the basal part of the segments pruinose black; breast 
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