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ly visible : posterior tibise, in c? , strong, curved inside at their base ; tarsi 

 strong and large, second joint almost as large as the third (Am.§- Sei-v.). 



a. First pair of femora beneath near the apex unarmed or furnished 

 on both sides with a small spinule : intermediate femora beneath, near the 

 apex, with a moderate or small distinct spine : mesostethial ridge 

 or wrinkle depressed, often broadly and distinctly furrowed, posteriorly 

 broadoi', convex and more elevated : metastetliium anteriorly narrowed, 

 not however compressed, touching the elevated base of the mesostethial 

 ridge, posteriorly not or but very slightly iuflexed : second ventral seg- 

 ment more or less elevated in the middle, usually touching the base of 

 the metastethium. 



h. Feet obscurely piceous or piceous-black : wings usually obscurely 

 fuscous and slightly tinged violaceous. 



0. Tarsi and feet concolorous ; spiracula cinctured flavescent. E. 

 rohustus, St. Farg., and J3. soutellaris, Herr. Schiiff. 



cc. Tarsi pale oastaneous or yellow-castaneous ; wings somewhat 

 violaceous-fuscous. 



H. hercules, Stal; B. cupretis, Wostwood, E. eurijtus, Dist. 



Ih. Feet, a great part of the first joint of the autemife and the apex 

 of the scutellum, weakly oastaneous : last pair of femora sometimes 

 fuscous-castaneous. 



J?, polyphemus, Stal. 



aa. Fourth joint of the antennee, yellow-testaceous at the base : 

 wings and dorsum of the abdomen black- violaceous : first pair of femora 

 beneath near the apex, with a somewhat robust spine on the anterior 

 side, with a very minute spinule or unarmed, on the posterior side : mid- 

 dle femora near the apex with a rather large spine on both sides : 

 metastethium anteriorly and posteriorly gradually compressly narrowed : 

 second ventral segment not elevated in the middle, not higher than the 

 first segment : apical angles of the abdominal segments not so pro- 

 minulous as in the preceding. 



E. scsvus, Stal. 



370. BusTHENES ROBnSTTJS, St. Fargeau & Serville. 

 Tessaratoma rohusta, St. Farg. & Serv., Eno. Me'th. x, p. 591 (1825). 

 Onccmerls robnstus, Blanchard, Hist. Ins. p. 142 (1840). 



Busthenes elephas, Dohi-n, Stettin Ent. Zeit., xxiy, p. 351 (1863) ; Walker, Cat. 

 Het., iii, p. 468 (1868). 



Eusthenes rolustus, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem., p. 167 (1843) : Dallas, 

 List Hem., i, p. 342 (1851): Walker, Cat. Het., 1. c. p. 468 (1868): Vollonhoven, 

 Fanuo Ent. I'Ai-oli. Indo-N^er., iii, p. 27 (1868) : Stal, Eu. Hem., i, p. 71, 230 (1870) : 

 Distant, A. M. N. H., (5 s.) iii, p. 45 (1879). 



(J. Body broad, blackish-browu : antemiis black : prouotum and 



