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Show EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. Plate I. Fig. I. Pneumora scutellaris, of the natural size. The female is apterous, pale-green with white spots, largest on the thorax, and yellowish ones on the abdomen, both arranged in longitudinal series and margined with red; three on each side of the dorsal CaJ'ina, forming little obliqae bands; edges of the tho1·ax denticulated.-Museum d'Histoire Naturelle; brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Lalande. Fig. 2. lYemestdna longirnstris, of the natural size, described under its specific name by M. vViedemann. It is blackish and furnished with a yellowish down, and several pead-grey spots on the thorax and abdomen; this last part of the body is crossed tJ'ansversely by blackish and russet bands; the spots are placed on the former; sides provided with bundles of black hairs. The wings are blackish and marked with little spots, and the posterior margin is transparent. The proboscis is from three to four times the length of the body. The legs are russet. From the Cape of Good Hope. Fig. 3. Ooreus phyllomorphus (subgenus SYROMASTEs) of the natural size. This species is allied to the Coreua paradoxus of Fabricius, but is rather less pilose and proportionally shorter and wider; the abdomen is almost square, and its lateral edges exhibit three dentations anteriorly and two lobes behind; each side of the posterior edge is marked by a little incisure. The sides of the body are slightly turned up, it is greyish and somewhat diaphanous and veined; its edges and the fi1·st joint of the antennre are bristled with little spines. From Senegal; where it was taken by M. Dum olin of the Navy, who sent it to M. Guerion by whom it was presented to the Paris Museum. Fig. 4. Synagris spiniventer, of the natural size. The female is black, with violet-blue wings, and the posterior extremity of the abdomen saffron; the under part of the second ring is armed VoL. IV.-3 D |