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CATALOGUE OE 
and thinly punctured, with a slight smooth transverse ridge near the fore 
border; sides transversely striated in front; lateral angles prominent and 
rectangular. Scutelium attenuated, acute, more finely and towards the tip 
much more thickly punctured than the thorax. Abdomen with six very 
short apical spines. Legs testaceous. Fore wings thickly and minutely 
punctured; membrane cinereous. Length of the body 6 lines. 
a. Cayenne. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
128. Edessa senilis. 
Pallide tulca ; caput transverse striatum ; antennce pallide testacece ; thorax 
subtil Iter nigro punctatus, angulis pusticis rotundatis ; scutelium sub- 
acutum, fusco nebulosum; abdomen apice bidenlatum ; alee anticce 
viridi saturato svffuste^ apud costam aspere punctatoe et luteo 
notalee. 
Pale luteous. Head transversely and finely striated. Eyes dull red. 
Antennae pale testaceous; second joint much shorter than the third; 
fourth about twice the length of the third, rather shorter than the fifth. 
Thorax thickly and minutely black-|tunctured ; a smooth band near the 
lore border; lateral angles rounded, not prominent. Scutelium attenuated, 
slightly acute, punctured like the thorax, mostly clouded with brown. Ab- 
domen with the hind angles of the apietil segment elongated and acute, 
but hardly forming spines. Legs luteous. Fore wings suffused with deep 
green, very thickly and minutely punctured, except along the costa, where 
they are roughly punctured and have some luteous marks; membrane dark 
greenish brown. Length of the body 7 lines. 
In this species and in E. hamata, E. melanocera and Aceratodes 
privata the forks of the pectoral keel are parallel to each other or nearly 
so; in the other species of the two genera they diverge much from each 
other. 
a. Santarem. From Mr. Bates’ collection. 
129. Edessa consentanea. 
Pallide iutea; caput pallide ft avum, transverse striatum ; thorax sparse et 
subliliter punctalus, fascia antica ftava glabra, angulis posticis sub- 
rotunda tis ; scutelium sat dense punctatum, vix acutum ; abdomen 
spinis duabus apicalibus brevissimis ; alee anticce fusco punctatoe et 
nebulosce. 
Pale luteous. Plead pale yellow, finely and transversely striated. 
Eyes dull red. Antennae pale luteous; third joint much longer than the 
second, rather shorter than the fourth ; fifth a little longer than the fourth. 
'J'horax thinly and finely punctured, with a smooth pale yellow baud near 
the fore border; lateral angles slightly rounded, not prominent. Scutelium 
slightly attenuated, hardly acute, more thickly and minutely punctured 
than the thorax. Hind angles of the apical abdominal segment forming 
two very short spines; no intermediate spines. Legs pale luteous, 
])ubescent. Fore wings thickly and minutely brown-punctured, mostly 
clouded with brown; membrane a;neous-brown. Length of the body 
5^ lines. 
a. Tejuca. 
Presented by the llcv. PJ. Clark. 
