692 LIST OF H0M0PTER0U9 INSECTS. 



thighs and hind-feet at the hase, knees, and tips of hind-shanks red : 



lore-wings brownish-black, thickly punctured, covered with gilded 



down, adorned with five bright red dots ; three towards the base ; 



two nearer the tips : hind-wings dark brown ; veins black, bright 



red at the base. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 1 1 



lines. 



a. Para. Presented by Gordon Graham, Esq. 



18. Sphenobhina metallioa. 



Viridis ; pectus et abdomen, nigra ; pedes picei ; tarsi nigri ; ala 

 antictc viridi-fusca. 



Metallic-green : head and chest thickly punctured, slightly 

 shining, almost flat: head above depressed on each side of the 

 slight keel ; face compressed, forming an almost right angle ; keel 

 prominent ; cross ridges on each side slight : mouth black, reddish 

 towards the base: antenna; black: breast and abdomen black, 

 shining: legs pitchy; feet black: fore-wines dark brown, with a 

 slight green tinge : hind-wings grayish, with a slight brown tinge 

 at the tips and along the hind borders, brown at the base ; veins 

 black, reddish at the base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 



«. ? From Mr. Birch's collection. 



b. ? 



19. Sphenobhina brevis. 



Rufa ; scutellum apioe piceum ; pedes nigri ; tibia anleriures rufie ; 

 ales antica macula apiceque fuscis. 



Red, shining : head and chest very thinly punctured, almost 

 smooth : head above slightly concave ; face compressed, hardly an- 

 gular, with a black band between the antenna; ; keel prominent; 

 cross ridges on each side rather indistinct ; tip of the mouth black : 

 tip of the scutcheon pitchy: legs black; anterior shanks red, with 

 black tips : fore-wings red with a very large brown discoidal spot which 

 extends to the fore border, and communicates with the brown which 

 occupies the tips, and thence forms a stripe along purl of the hind 

 border; it also accompanies a longitudinal vein to the base of the 

 wing : hind-wings slightly gray ; veins black, red at the base. Length 

 of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 

 (I. Brazil. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



