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the tenth successively decreasing in length ; club long-conical, a 

 little move than twice the length of the tenth joint : chest brassy, 

 nearly elliptical : fore-chest very short ; its length above not more 

 than one-tenth of its breadth; hind-border concave: shield of the 

 mid-chest narrower in front ; sutures of the parapsides indistinct ; 

 axillae parted by about one-fifth of the breadth of the chest ; scutch- 

 eon subrhomboidal : hind-chest rather long, obconical, declining, 

 with a ridge along the middle and a rim on each side : petiole very 

 short : abdomen almost spindle-shaped, depressed above, very 

 slightly keeled beneath, smooth, coppery purple, slender towards 

 the tip, tawny beneath and at the base above, a little longer but 

 hardly narrower than the chest ; metapodeon tinged with green, oc- 

 cupying about one-fourth of the back ; octoon and all the following 

 segments of moderate and nearly equal length ; telum slender and 

 pointed : legs tawny ; hips brassy ; a brown streak along each of the 

 four hinder-thighs : middle-feet and hind-feet yellow with brown 

 tips : wings slightly tawny, rather narrow ; veins brown ; ulna a 

 little more than half the length of the humerus ; radius longer than 

 the ulna ; cubitus rather long, about half the length of the radius ; 

 wing-brand very small. Allied to Hetroxys. Length of the body 

 1 J line ; of the wings 2 lines. 

 Var. j3. Chest green. 



HETPtOXYS Aponius. Mas. JEneo-viridis, abdomine purpureo- 

 cupreo fulvo maculato, antennis pedibusque fulvis, femoribus 

 piceis, alis limpidis. Fem. Abdomine immaculato, basi cy- 

 aneo-viridi, antennis nigris. Page 127. 



Male. Body slender: head and chest convex, shagreened : head 

 dark green, a little broader than the chest : eyes and eyelets red : 

 feelers dark tawny, slender, subclavate, much longer than the chest ; 

 first joint long, slender, tawny ; second cup-shaped ; third and 

 fourth very small; the following joints to the tenth of equal 

 breadth, but successively decreasing in length ; club long-conical, a 

 little broader than the tenth joint and nearly twice its length : chest 

 spindle-shaped, dark coppery green: fore-chest very short; its 

 length above not one-tenth of its breadth : shield of the mid-chest 

 long, rather flat above ; sutures of the parapsides very indistinct ; 

 axillae parted by one-fourth of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon 

 subrhomboidal, with a suture along each side, and a very indistinct 

 transverse channel near the tip : hind-chest well developed, obconi- 

 cal, declining, with a ridge along the middle and a rim on each side: 

 petiole very short : abdomen depressed, smooth, dark purplish 

 copper, with a tawny spot near the base, slightly increasing in 



