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The posterior half of the pronotum is coarsely punctate, and a 
short row of coarse punctures is placed near the anterior lateral 
margins; the scutellum has the basal half sparingly but coarsely 
punctate, the remaining portion much more finely punctate, the 
_ apex impunctate, corium thickly and finely punctate. 
Long. 18 mill. Exp. pronot. angl. 16. 
Hab. Brazil. 
This species is allied in general colour and appearance to Z. tau- 
riformis Dist. but differs by the shorter and more straightly pro- 
duced pronotal angles. 
Edessa macraspis n. sp. 
Head and antennæ ochraceous, the latter with the second joint 
shorter than the third, fourth twice the length of second (fifth 
mutilated). Pronotum olivaceous, the anterior and lateral margins 
broadly ochraceous, and the surface somewhat finely punctate, the 
lateral angles strongly produced, their apices black, obtusely roun- 
ded, slighly notched posteriorly and somewhat directed upwards 
and backwards. Scutellum pale olivaceous, ochraceous at base, the 
base sparingly and coarsely punctate, the remains surface thickly 
and finely punctate, the apex subacutely pointed and reaching a little 
beyond base of membrane which is dark bronzy. Corium olivaceous 
thickly and finely punctate. Connexivum ochraceous. Sternum 
ochraceous with transverse dull purplish and ochraceous markings. 
Abdomen purplish-brown with ochraceous segmental streaks. Legs 
ochraceous. 
Long 15 to 17 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 13 to 15 millim. 
ab. Brazil. Env. de Rio-Janeiro (Wittig). 
In some specimens the colour is faded or transformed into an 
almost uniform dark ochraceous above. 
EDESSA FLA VIDA. 
Edessa flavida Hope. Cat. I, p. 28 (1837). 
Edessa simplez H. S. Wanz. Ins. V, p. 103, f. 554 (1839). 
Edessa complicata n. sp. | 
Closelÿ allied to Z. flavida (— Æ. simplex H. S.)but of a more 
pale universal olivaceons or brownish-ochraceous coloration ; the 
third joint of the antennæ only very slightly longer than the second, 
the pronotum much more coarsely punctate and the lateral angles 
slightly thicker and more obtuse, the apex of the scutellum broader 
and less acute etc. 
Long. 14 to 15 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 10 to 11 millim. 
Hab. Brazil. ‘ 
EDESSA OLIVACEA. 
Edessa olivacea Stäl. Stett. Ent. Zeit. XXIIL, p. 111, 98 (1862). 
EDESSA CAPRA. 
 Edessa capra Dall. List. Hém. I, p. 321, 4 (1851). 
