square, the false proboscis nearly as long as the body, and the labial pulpi terminating in a point formed by the two last joints.[1] All the species are exotic, and apparently confined to South America. Several of them are nearly glabrous, (such as E. dentata, and cordata,) in this respect deviating materially from the external aspect usually associated with the peculiar structure which they exhibit.
EUGLOSSA SURINAMENSIS.
Plate XIX. Fig 1.
This species has been long known, as the above synonyms indicate. It is rather a small insect, the accompanying figure representing it a little enlarged. The body is black, and clothed with a short very dense hirsuties; head and antennæ black, the tongue extending backwards as far as the middle of the abdomen; eyes brown; thorax black; the wings tinged with clear brown; nervures black; abdomen with the basal segment black, the remainder ochre-yellow, appearing as if gilded; the black colour on the underside of the abdomen extends to the middle; legs black, the tibiæ and radical joint of the tarsus in the hinder pair broad and flat.
Inhabits Surinam, Xalapa in New Spain, and other parts of South America.
- ↑ Cuvier, Regne Anim. v. 357.
