212 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Merperervs viripircos, Fem. 
Fulvo-viridis, thoracis disco fusco, antennis pedibusque nigris, femoribus 
viridibus, alis subcinereis ad costam subfuscis. 
Pale grassy green, tinged with tawny above and with whitish bloom be- 
neath, beset with a few black bristles: head brown about the eyelets, beset 
behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, clothed beneath with white 
hairs: eyes red, thickly clothed with short white hairs: feelers black : disk of 
the chest brownish: abdomen obconical, longer than the chest, clothed 
with very short white hairs: legs black, clothed with very short black hairs, 
beset with black bristles; thighs green, with which colour the shanks are 
also tinged: wings slightly gray, tinged with pale brown beneath the fore 
border; wing-ribs and poisers tawny; veins black, tawny at the base. 
Length of the body 14 line ; of the wings 4? lines. 
North America. 
Genus DOLICHOPUS, Latr. 
DoxicHorus Birrons, Fem. 
Aineo-viridis, capitis vertice cyaneo, abdominis segmentorum marginibus 
anticis cupreis, antennis fulvis, pedibus flavis, alis subcinereis. 
Green, beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a white cover- 
ing: crown of the head blue, tinged with green and purple ; an olive stripe 
between the feelers and the epistoma: eyes red: mouth pitchy: feelers 
tawny ; third joint pitchy towards the tip; sixth black, feathered : a brassy 
tinge on the chest: abdomen obeonical, longer than the chest, coppery on the 
fore border of each segment whose sides are adorned with a white covering : 
legs yellow, clothed with very short black hairs which as usual are most 
frequent on the feet; thighs stout ; shanks beset with black bristles: wings 
very slightly gray; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, tawny at the base ; 
poisers yellow. Length of the body 1}—14 line; of the wings 3}—4 
lines, 
United States. 
