2. DERECrETA. 3. BEACH YXIPHUS. 369 



3. Derecyrta flavipes. 



Brachyxiphus flavipes, Phil. Steti. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 287, pi. iii. figs. 

 2,2 6(1871). 



Hab. Chili. 



a. <$ . Chili*. E. C. Keed, Esq. 



4. Derecyrta reedii. 

 (Plate XIY. fig. 15.) 



Exp. al. 6 lin., long. corp. 4 lin. 



Shining black ; segments 2-4 of the abdomen and the back of the 

 first, legs, and trochanters lnteous ; coxae black. 



The black antennae prevent me from regarding this insect as the 

 female of J), flavipes, but it is closely allied to that species. 



Hab. Chili. 



a. $. (Type.) Chili. E. C. Reed, Esq. 



3. BRACHYXIPHUS. 



Brachyxiphus, Phil. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 285 (1871). 



1. Brachyxiphus grandis. 



Brachyxiphus grandis, Phil. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 287, pi. iii. 



figs. 1,1/(1871). 

 S . Derecyrta bicolor, Westw. Thes. Ent. Oxon. p. 121, pi. xxiii. fig. 1 



(1874). 



Hab. Chili. 

 a. $. Chili. E. C. Reed, Esq # 



2. Brachyxiphus hyalinus. 



(Plate XIY. fig. 9.) 

 Exp. al. 1 poll., long. corp. 7 lin. 



Head, thorax, the two first and the terminal segments of the 

 abdomen black ; the rest of the abdomen shining luteous. Wings 

 yellowish hyaline, clouded towards the tips, with piceous nervnres. 



Hab. Chili. 

 a. S. (Type.) Chili. E. C. Reed, Esq. 



3. Brachyxiphus deceptus. 



(Plate XIV. figs. 16 $ , 10 c? .) 



Derecyrta deceptus, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 474, 



pi. iv. fig. 6. 

 c3 . Xiphydria flavopicta, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 1. 



* This specimen agrees with the figure, except that the four anterior femora 

 are black. Philippi's figure (as observed by Prof. Westwood) seems also to re- 

 present a male. Philippi states that the male of Brachyxiphus was unknown to 

 him ; but this remark probably applied only to B. grandis. 



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