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notched behind, slightly depressed, a little broader than long ; front 

 increasing in breadth till near the epistoma where it again contracts, 

 much longer than broad ; a row of tawny spots along each side ; 

 disk greenish-yellow towards the epistoma ; a tawny middle ridge 

 traversed near the crown by a yellow ridge ; epistoma triangular, as 

 long as the front, with three yellow spots at the base and one on the 

 disk near the tip: fore-chest nearly as long as the crown, adorned 

 with yellow dots and a yellow middle ridge, straight behind, convex 

 in the middle of the fore border, it is slightly concave for the recep- 

 tion of the eyes: middle-chest triangular, longer than the fore-chest, 

 tinged with green on each side: abdomen longer than the chest, 

 mostly tawny and slightly tinged with green beneath : legs tawny, 

 tinged with green, adorned with irregular brown bands ; hind-shanks 

 armed with two teeth whose tijps are black : fore-wings pale brciwn, 

 like those of /. coleoptralus in shape ; veins brown : hind-wings 

 blackish. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 

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13. Issns BiMAOULA, Mas. 



Fulvus, fusco variiis ; abdomen, subtus viride, nigra plagiatum ; 

 pedes fulvi, viridi et ferrug'meo varii ; ala: anticee viridi,fulvce- 

 fusco bimaculatm ; alec poslic6E subfulvce. 

 Body tawny ; head narrrower than the chest and than the fore- 

 wing near the base ; crown prominent and angular in front, nearly 

 equally notched on the hind border ; front very slightly widening till 

 near the epistoma where it is slightly contracted, brown with a row 

 of tawny spots along each side; the tawny middle ridge is inter- 

 sected by a cross-ridge, between which and the crown the space is 

 dark brown with lawny spots ; epistoma triangular, as long as the 

 front; disk ferruginous with' tawny oblique streaks on each side: 

 fore-chest a little shorter than the crown, very convex in the middle 

 of the fore border, straight behind, brown with tawny spots on each 

 side : middle-chest triangular, partly brown, hardly longer than the 

 fore-chest: abdomen obconical, longer than the chest, grass-green 

 beneath with a large black spot in the disk ; tip tawny, partly ferru- 

 ginous : legs tawny, tinged with green and ferruginous j tips of the 

 shanks and of the feet brown : fore-wings a little narrower towards 

 the tips than those of/, coleopiratus, pale tawny tinged with green; 

 longfitudinal veins green ; cross-veins brown ; a brown spot on the 

 disk near two-thirds of the length from the base: hind-wings pale 

 tawny ; veins darker. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 

 5 lines, 

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