82 INSEOTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
divided into two regions, the lower pitchy and composed of very small 
facets, the upper red, slightly bronzed, composed of rather large facets : 
mouth black: feelers black; first and second joints shining; compound 
joint dull, pitchy: chest rather long, covered with brown down, having a 
pale green stripe on each side; hind border of the scutcheon ferruginous, 
armed with two ferruginous teeth: abdomen flat, nearly spindle-shaped, 
covered with brown down, much longer and alittle broader than the chest : 
legs ferruginous; feet pitchy, tawny towards the base ; wings very dark 
brown ; wing-ribs and veins black; poisers pitchy, their knobs green be- 
neath. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 8 lines. 
Brazil. 
Genus CHRYSOCHLORA, Latr. 
CurysocHLoRA PLANA, Fem. 
Fulva, thorace vittis tribus piceis, abdomine nigro ventre vittisque fulvis, 
antennis ferrugineis, pedibus flavis, femoribus fulvis, alis subcinereis 
ad costam fulvis disco sublimpidis. 
Head pale tawny, or yellow, clothed with pale tawny hairs, and on 
the crown with a few black hairs: a pitchy streak extending from the eye- 
lets nearly to the feelers: eyes black, slightly adorned with iridescent 
colours ; facets small: mouth tawny: feelers ferruginous, in structure like 
those of C. ewclamans : bristle black, tawny at the base: chest and breast 
dark tawny : chest adorned with three pitchy stripes; fore border of the 
seutcheon and part of the breast pitchy: abdomen black, nearly elliptical, 
a little longer and broader than the chest, adorned with one entire and 
four interrupted short, tawny stripes; underside pale tawny, pitehy towards 
the tip: legs pale yellow ; thighs tawny; claws black, yellow at the base: 
wings pale gray, tawny beneath the fore border, almost colourless in the 
disk, wing-ribs, veins and poisers tawny. Length of the body 6—6# lines ; 
of the wings 14—16 lines. 
Columbia. 
Curysocutona? tincra, Fem. 
Nigra, abdominis apice ferrugineo, tibiis posticis basi tarsisque flavis, alis 
cinereis ad costam fulvis. 
Body black, dull: head prominent and rugulose in front, clothed 
above with black hairs, beneath with pale tawny hairs: eyes black, thinly 
