LIST OF UOmOi'TEHOUS INSECTS. 



tips ; flaps pale tawny towards the base, a tawny streak along the 

 fore border. Length of the body 20 lines; of the wings 59 lines ; 



24. FiuiciNA EXCAVATA, Mas. 



Nervus transversm his fer^ rectus, perobliquiis, unguium perobtu- 

 sum fmgens, 2n plus duplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 'iusfere 

 rectus, perobliquus, angulum nonfingens, \o paullb brevior ; 

 3us valde curvHs, fere erectus, angulum rectum fingens ; 4us 

 obliquus,undattis, angulum acutum fingens, 'io muttb longior. 

 Second marginal areolet about four-fifths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein nearly straight, extremely slanting, forming an 

 extremelv obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than twice 

 its length ; second nearly straight, extremely slanting, forming an 

 almost straight line with the longitudinal vein, a little shorter than 

 the first : third very much curved, nearly upright, forming a right 

 angle ; fourth oblique, waved, forming an acute angle, much longer 

 than the third ; fifth curved, nearly upright, forming a hardly acute 

 angle. Body dark tawny, rather short and broad: head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest ; face slightly convex, tinged with 

 green : mouth tawny with a black lip, reaching the hind-hijis : eyes 

 not prominent: feelers tawny at the base: hind-scutcheon of the 

 fore-chest slightly tinged with green, excavated and forming a very 

 obtuse angle in the middle of the hind border, slightly widened and 

 forming a very obtuse angle above the base of each fore-wing : scut- 

 cheon of the iniddle-chcst adorned with two black obconical marks 

 which proceed from the fore border, and are each accompanied on 

 the outer side by a small black spot ; excavation on the hind border 

 rather deep, forming half a circle : abdomen obconical, very little 

 longer than the chest ; fore borders of the segments black ; drums 

 tawny, not far apart, about one-fourth of the length of the abdo- 

 men : legs tawny ; claws black towards the tips ; fore-thighs streaked 

 with black, armed with three black teeth, of these two are rather 

 long, and one is short : wings pale tawny, brownish tawny at the 

 base ; cross-veins clouded with brown ; tips of the longitudinal veins 

 of the marginal areolets very slightly clouded with brown ; flaps 

 brownish lawny towards the base. Length of the body 18 lines ; of 

 the wings .'JO lines. 

 a. South .\merica. 



