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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA, 
Genus TEMNOCERA, St. Farg. et Serv. 
TEMNOCERA FULYOLUCENS, Mas. 
Fulva, capitis thoracisque discis purpureis, abdomine supra piceo, antennis 
pedibusque fulvis, tibiis posticis tarsisque piceis, alis subcinereis basi 
costa venarumgue marginibus fulvis. 
Allied to 7. pallida. Tawny, clothed with short black hairs: head 
clothed with tawny hairs; crown purplish : eyes red, thickly clothed with 
short black hairs; facets along the hind border smaller than those else- 
where: feclers tawny: disk of the chest purple or greenish tawny, its sides 
beset with black bristles: abdomen obconical, a little shorter and broader 
than the chest, pitchy above, pale tawny at the base: legs tawny ; feet 
pitchy, tawny at the base; claws black, tawny at the base; hind-shanks 
mostly pitchy: wings slightly tinged with gray, tawny at the base and be- 
neath the fore border and along the veins in the disk ; wing-ribs and veins 
tawny ; veins black towards the tips; poisers yellow. Length of the body 
34—4 lines ; of the wings 9—10 lines. 
Brazil. 
TEMNOCERA METALLORUM, Mas. 
Ferruginea, supra cupreo viridi et purpureo ornata, antennis fulvis, pedibus 
piceis, femoribus ferrugineis, alis cinereis basi costa nervorumque 
marginibus fuscis. 
Ferruginous: thickly clothed with short black hairs: head thickly 
clothed with short tawny hairs: eyes black, thickly clothed with short 
black hairs; facets larger on the crown than elsewhere: mouth tawny ; 
feelers tawny; sixth joint darker towards the tip: chest thickly clothed with 
short black hairs; disk coppery varied with metallic green and purple ; 
scutcheon purple, beset like the sides of the chest with black bristles: ab- 
domen obconical, broader and a little shorter than the chest, coppery, 
tinged with green and purple ; tip and underside partly ferruginous: legs 
pitchy, clothed with short black hairs; hips and thighs ferruginous ; claws 
black, tawny at the base ; foot-cushions pale tawny; wings gray, brown at 
the base beneath the fore border and along the borders of the veins; wing- 
ribs pitchy ; veins black, ferruginous at the base and along the fore border ; 
poisers tawny. Length of the body 5% lines; of the wings 12 lines. 
Para, 
