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than the chest, ferruginous towards the base, abdomen of the female pale 
luteous towards the tip which is much attenuated : legs tawny : wings colour- 
less, slightly tawny at the base, adorned along the fore border with a dark 
brown interrupted stripe which is widened at the tip ; veins black ; fifth vein 
converging towards the tip of the fourth; sixth not reaching the hind 
border; cross-veins straight, almost upright: poisers pitchy. Length of the 
body 13—2 lines ; of the wings 2—S lines. 
United States. 
Orratis aAncusTA, Mas, 
Viridis ; caput fulvum ; antenna fulve, apice picee ; thoraw purpureo vit- 
tatus, ferrugineo varius ; abdomen obclavatum, compressum, ferrugi- 
neum, viridi et purpureo varium ; pedes picei, femoribus fulvis ; ale 
hyaline, fusco bivittate. 
Head tawny ; crown pitchy towards the base of the feelers; face with 
an oblique furrow on.each side: mouth pitchy; palpi tawny: feelers 
tawny ; third joint pitchy, tawny at the base, slightly tapering from the 
base to the tip, full four times the length of the second; sixth black, 
slender, bare, nearly twice the length of the third : chest green, with indistinct 
purple stripes; a hoary tinge on each side; shoulders, dish of the breast 
and hind-chest ferruginous : abdomen ferruginous, tinged with green and 
purple, obclavate, compressed, narrower and a little longer than the chest, 
clothed with tawny hairs: legs pitchy, thighs tawny; posterior thighs 
pitchy towards the tips: wings colourless, brown along the fore border, with 
a colourless interval and with a brown streak proceeding from the base to the 
middle cross-vein, which is very oblique; lower cross-vein clouded with 
brown, oblique, curved outward towards its base; veins black, partly 
tawny: alule whitish: halteresferruginous. Length of the body 44 lines ; 
of the wings 8 lines. 
Brazil. 
