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eyes and eyelets red : feelers black, slender, hairy, filiform, a little 

 snorter than the chest ; first joint long and slender, pale tawny to- 

 wards the base ; second cup-shaped ; the following joints linear, ra- 

 ther long ; club pointed, nearly twice the length of the last joint : 

 chest oval : fore-chest extremely short : shield of the mid-chest less 

 finely shagreened than are the other segments ; sutures of the pa- 

 rapsides very distinct ; axillae parted by less than one-third of the 

 breadth of the chest : scutcheon subrhomboidal, rather long : hind- 

 chest obconical, declining, rather large, nearly smooth, with a ridge 

 along the middle and a rim on each side : petiole very short : abdo- 

 men depressed, smooth, greenish brass colour, increasing in breadth 

 from the base till near the tip, rather shorter and narrower than the 

 chest ; metapodeon occupying less than one-third of the back ; oc- 

 toon and following segments of nearly equal size : legs yellow ; hips 

 brassy ; tips of the feet brown : wings slightly tawny ; veins taw- 

 ny ; ulna rather more than twice the length of the humerus ; radius 

 not one-fourth of the length of the ulna ; cubitus very short, not 

 half the length of the radius : wing-brand extremely small. Length 

 of the body 1 line ; of the wings 2 lines. 



En ted on Stennos. Mas. JEneo-viridis, cupreo- purpureoque 

 varius, antennis nigris, pedibus luteis, femoribas piceis, alls 

 limpidis. Page 140. 



Head and chest convex, shagreened, bronze-green, varied with 

 copper-colour and purple ; the latter colours predominate towards 

 the head and the fore-part of the chest : head thick, not impressed 

 in front, a little broader and more finely shagreened than the chest ; 

 crown broad: eyes and eyelets dark red: feelers setaceous, black, 

 slender, much snorter than the chest; first joint long, rather stout ; 

 second cup-shaped ; the following joints slightly petiolated ; club 

 pointed, very much longer than the preceding joint : chest long- 

 oval, well developed : fore-chest very short ; its length not more 

 than one-tenth of its breadth : sutures of the parapsides distinct, 

 especially towards the hind border of the shield ; axillae parted by 

 nearly one-half of the breadth of the chest ; scutcheon subrhom- 

 boidal : hind-chest long-obconical, declining, with a ridge along the 

 back and a rim on each side : petiole shagreened, stout, nearly one- 

 third of the length of the abdomen, greenish brass colour, depressed, 

 smooth, nearly conical, hardly more than half the length of the 

 chest ; metapodeon long ; the following segments of moderate 

 length: legs luteous; hips brass colour; thighs piceous ; fore- 

 shanks, fore-feet and tips of four hinder-feet tawny : wings colour- 

 less ; veins piceous ; ulna nearly twice the length of the humerus ; 



