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fuscous ; the apex of the pronotum exceeds the length of the tegmina, and is curved 
downwards; legs slim, red, with a fine black striga down each of the tibiae. With 
some doubt I mark this as specific, on account of its clear affinity with ('. vagin at a, 
to which it has resemblance. Yet it differs from the type specimen lent bv 
Dr. Aurivillius. My figure is from one of several examples in the B.M. Collection 
which are labelled Smilia vaginata. 
The neuration fairly agrees with the engraved outline of the tegmina given by 
Fairmaire. The costal border is punctured. 
Size with expanded wings, 14x8 mm. 
CYMBOMORPHA PRASINA, Germ. 
StSI. l.c. XXIV. p. 558 (1807). Fowl. l.c. Tab. YI. figs. 11, lla-b, p. 80. 
Very like C. vaginata , but less sculptured on the pronotum. 
Fairm. Smilia prasinci, l.c. p. 202. 
The colour is green, pronotum compressed with the carina and the costal margin 
of the tegmina, brown. 
Size, 9x5 mm. 
Habitat. —Brazil. 
Genus: HETERONOTUS. 
Lap. Germ. Am. and Serv. Fairm. l.c. p. 400. 
Combophora, Burm. 
This genus is remarkable from the globose and often spined nodules of the 
pronotum. The bodies of these insects are much smaller than the overhanging 
pronota the nodules of which sometimes are inflected. Otherwise they would much 
encumber the movements of the creatures. Some kinds resemble the bodies of large 
ants coloured brown, black, tawny; or they are striped like some of those leaping and 
hunting spiders which construct no silken webs. 
Originally the genera Combophora and Heteronotus were included in Laporte’s 
genus, but they seem to be diverse in form, and should be kept separate. 
Head triangular, ocelli close together on the frons ; eyes usually prominent ; 
pronotum often unarmed in the males, but spinose in the females. Pronotum may 
be bi, tri, or quadrilobed, the ultimate node generally being the largest. The 
penultimate and sometimes the ultimate node, may have a strong spine on its under¬ 
surface ; the suprahumerals also are thorny. 
