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head a little broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets red : feelers 

 browD, clavate, rather slender, a little longer than the chest ; first 

 joint green, long, slender ; second cup-shaped, green ; third and 

 fourth very small ; fifth and following joints successively, but very 

 slightly decreasing in length ; club elliptical, broader than the tenth 

 joint and more than twice its length : chest oval, broader in front 

 than behind ; fore-chest very short, just seen above ; shield of the 

 middle-chest rather long ; sutures of the parapsides rather strongly 

 marked ; axillae separated by rather less than one-fourth of the 

 breadth of the chest ; scutcheon nearly rhomboidal, of moderate 

 size, having a transverse suture near the tip ; hind-chest short, 

 transverse, declining ; petiole very short : abdomen spindle-shaped, 

 smooth, shining, concave above, slightly keeled beneath, longer and 

 much narrower than the chest ; disk slightly 'tinged with bronze ; 

 hips and thighs green ; shanks piceous, tinged with green ; knees 

 and feet yellow, tips of the latter piceous ; fore-feet brown : wings 

 colourless; veins brown ; ulna full half the length of the humerus; 

 radius much longer than the ulna ; cubitus much shorter than the 

 ulna ; wing-brand small. Length of the body f line ; of the wings 

 H line. 



Ormocerus Aletes. Fern. Aureo-viridis, abdomine cyaneo- 

 viridi, antennis piceis tibiis fulvis, pedibus Jlavis, alls lim- 

 pidis. Page 107. 



Body thick and broad: head and chest golden-green, convex, 

 finely shagreened : head very large, broader than the chest : eyes 

 and eyelets red : feelers 12-jointed, piceous, clavate, stout, short, 

 not more than half the length of the chest ; first joint long, linear, 

 tawny, piceous at the tip ; second cup-shaped ; third and fourth 

 very small ; fifth and folio wiug joints short, transverse, successively 

 decreasing in length ; club elliptical, a little broader than the ninth 

 joint and more than twice its length : chest deep, very robust ; fore- 

 chest very short; shield of the middle-chest very broad; sutures of 

 the parapsides very indistinct; axillae separated by one-fourth of 

 the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon truncate-conic, having a very 

 slight trace of a transverse suture near its tip ; hind-chest of mode- 

 rate size, obconical, declining, with a ridge along the middle and 

 one on each side by which it is divided into two compartments ; 

 petiole extremely short : abdomen bluish green, smooth, shining, 

 concave above, very deeply keeled beneath, narrower but hardly 

 shorter than the chest ; the disk is slightly tinged with bronze ; me- 

 tapodeon rather large ; octoon and following segments of moderate 

 size : legs green ; shanks tawny ; knees and tips of shanks yellow ; 

 feet yellow, their tips piceous : wings colourless ; veins brown ; ulna 



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