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nearly perpendicular, forming a very slight inward angle with the 

 middle one, a little shorter than the upper one, which is oblique, and 

 forms rather more than a right angle with the middle one ; the latter 

 is oblique and very short ; lower cross-vein much covered outward, 

 parted by more than its length from the middle cross-vein, by much 

 more than its length from the tip of the wiug, and by about one- 

 fourth of its length from the hind border ; middle cross-vein short, 

 straight, slightly oblique ; scales very small. 



Phasiamya metallica, n. s., fern. Mneo-viridis, abdominis basi 

 cyaneo cupreoque vario, palpis aniennisque fulvis, his basi nigris, 

 pedibus fulvis, femoribus piceis, tarsis flavis,alis subcinereis costa 

 fulvis apice subfuscis vittaque limpida ornatis. 

 Body brassy-green, thickly clothed with very short black hairs : 

 head tawny, beset with a few black bristles, black about the region 

 of the eyelets and along the sides of the face, which are without 

 bristles; epistoma prominent : eyes red; forepart slightly convex ; 

 its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker pitchy, clothed with 

 tawny hairs ; palpi tawny, beset with black bristles : feelers tawny, 

 partly black and clothed with very short black hairs at the base ; 

 third joint linear, rounded at the tip, more than twice the length of 

 the second ; bristle slender, more than twice the length of the 

 third joint: abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 tinged with blue and copper colour towards the base : legs tawny, 

 thickly clothed with short black hairs ; thighs, except their tips and 

 hips, pitchy ; feet pale yellow, with pitchy tips ; claws black ; foot- 

 cushions tawny : wings slightly gray, tawny along the fore border, 

 pale brown towards the tips, when there is a colourless band just be- 

 yond the lower cross-vein, on the lower part of which the brown 

 tinge is darker than elsewhere ; wing-ribs and veins tawny, the latter 

 pitchy in some parts ; primary longitudinal veins beset with short 

 black bristles; poisers and scales tawny. Length of the body 3 

 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Ropalomera? Wiedemann. 



Kopalomera? rufipes, n. s., fem. Nigra, capite nigro-cyaneo, ab- 

 domine clavalo, antennis fulvis, pedibus rufis, tarsis piceis, fe- 

 moribus posticis crassis piceo cinctis subtus serratis, alis sub- 

 fuscis. 



Body slender : head and chest beset with a few black bristles : 

 head bluish black, shining, adorned behind with a spot of white 

 down and with a stripe of the same along each eye, clothed beneath 



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