H EMTPTEltA HETKllOPTEKA . 
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patch on each side. Ahdoinen beneath with two irregular and interrupted 
emerald-green stripes, and with a large patch near the tip of the same 
hue; some tawny dots along each side. Cox® tawny; femora dark 
green. Fore wings extremely thickly and minutely punctured; membrane 
aeneous-brown. Length of the body 17 lines. 
The thorax is more dilated in front than that of P. stabile, but less so 
than that of P. amplicolle. 
a. Siam. From M. Mouhot’s collection. 
14. Pycaxum pallipes. 
Nigro-viride,suhtilissime et confertissime punctaf.um, sublus pallide luteum ; 
caput margine postico vittaque interrupta pallide lufeis ; antennae 
lutece, articulo 2o supra fitsco varia, 3w fiisco apice fiavo, 4o nigro 
basi Jlavo ; thorax lateo peranguste rnarginatus, transverse et scite 
striatus, lateribus anticis valde dilatalis rectangulalis longitudinaliter 
strialis ; scutellum transverse rugulusum ; abdomen dorso purpureo, 
vonnexivo viridi fusco-marginato ; aloe anticae rufescente nigricantes , 
membrana smaragdina. 
Blackish green, pale luteous beneath. Head, thorax and scutellum 
very thickly and minutely punctured. Head pale luteous behind and with 
an interrupted stripe of that hue. Eyes pale luteous, with ferruginous 
disks. Antennaj luteous; second joint more or less brown above; third 
brown, yellow towards the tip, much shorter than the second; fourth black, 
yellow towards the base, a little shorter than the second. Thorax with a 
very narrow luteous border, transversely and finely striated ; fore part on 
each side much dilated, longitudinally striated, forming a well defined 
right angle. Scutellum transversely rugulose. Abdomen above purple; 
connexivum deep green, bordered with brown and at the tip with pale 
luteous. Fore wings blackish, irregularly red about the borders ; membrane 
emerald-green. Hind wings blackish cinereous. Length of the body 
12 lines. 
It seems to form a link between the genera Pi/camim and Dalcantha, 
and in the latter genus it has most aflSnity to D. regia. 
a, b. — North Hindostan. Presented by Capt. Strachey. 
Genus 18. DALCANTHA, C. H. 345. 
] . Dalcaxtha dilatata, C. H. 345. 
a, b. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth’s collection. 
c. Silhet. 
d. Hindostan. From Mr. Stevens’ collection. 
2. Dalcantha inermipes. 
inermipes, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd Ser. i. 599. 
a. Punjaub. From Mr. Fortune’s collection. 
