33. HYLOTOMA. 75 



89. Hylotoma speciosa. 



Hylotoma speciosa, Klug, Jahrb. d. Insect, i. p. 233, n. 32 (1834). 

 Hab. Cape. 



90. Hylotoma urania. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 10.) 



Exp. al. 10 lin., long. corp. 5 lin. 



Shining steel-blue, glossed with purple and violet ; segments 3-5 

 of the abdomen luteous, with a violet-blue spot on the middle of 

 each above. Undersurface steel-blue ; segments 3-5 of the ab- 

 domen, and the tibiae and tarsi, luteous, extremities of the latter 

 dusky. Wings hyaline, with yellow nervures towards the base, 

 and brown ones towards the extremity ; tips of fore wings darker, 

 a slightly oblique brown shade strongly glossed with violet extend- 

 ing across the fore wings from the stigma. 



Hab. South Africa. 

 a, b. 2 • (TyP es of species.) Natal. Herr Guienzius. 



91. Hylotoma bicolorata. 



Hylotoma bicolorata, Klug, Berl. Mag. vi. p. 296, n. 16, pi. vii. fig. 4 

 (1814). 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



92. Hylotoma gambiae. 



(Plate IV. fig. 9.) 



Exp. al. 7 lin., long. corp. 3J lin. 



Head black ; antennae very long and thick, setose ; the first joint 

 is black, the second reddish brown, and the third piceous, with a 

 large oval whitish spot at the extremity. Thorax black in the 

 middle ; prothorax, sides of mesothorax, and the whole remainder 

 of the insect reddish luteous, except the joints of the four hinder 

 tarsi, which are ringed with black, and the extremities of the hind 

 tibiae, which are also black. "Wings damaged, but probably yellowish 

 hyaline. 



Possibly the male of H. bicolorata, Klug. 



Hab. Gambia. 



a. <$ . (Type of species.) Gambia. 



93. Hylotoma xanthomela. 



Hylotoma xanthomela, Klitg, Jahrb. d. Insect, i. p. 234, n. 36 (1834). 

 Hab. Guinea. 



