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are between one-fourth and one-fifth of the length of the body ; 

 legs pale yellow ; feet and tips of shanks brown. The young ones 

 when just born are light. 



Var. 4 ? Pale yellow, rather broad and flat, with a row of black 

 dots along each side, and a large lively green spot at the base of 

 each nectary : feelers pale yellow, much longer than the body ; 

 tips of the joints black : mouth and nectaries pale yellow, with black 

 tips, the latter as long as one-fourth of the body : legs pale yellow ; 

 knees, feet, and tips of the shanks black. 



Var. 5 ? Like the last, grass-green, tinged with yellow : head 

 and fore-chest yellow. From Digitalis. 



Var. 6? Dull pale or grass-green : hind part of the abdomen 

 deep green on each side : feelers yellowish green, longer than the 

 body; tips of the second and of the third joints and the whole of 

 the following joints brown : mouth and nectaries yellowish green 

 with brown tips, the latter nearly one-fifth of the length of the 

 body: legs yellowish green ; knees, feet, and tips of shanks brown. 

 From Tussilago Farfara. 



Var. 7 ? Head and fore-chest yellow : feelers pale yellow, much 

 longer than the body ; tips of the joints black : mouth pale yellow, 

 with a black tip : tube at the tip of the abdomen and nectaries yel- 

 low, the latter rather more than one-fourth of the length of the 

 body. From Rumex crispus and other species. 



Var. 8 ? Like the last: feelers very much longer than the body, 

 nectaries with black tips, as long as one-third of the body : legs 

 pale yellow ; feet and tips of the shanks black. 



Var. 9? Body pale green: feelers dark brown, yellowish green 

 at the base, fully as long as the body: mouth and nectaries pale 

 green with brown tips, the latter about one-fifth of the length of the 

 body : legs pale yellow ; feet and tips of thighs and of shanks dark 

 brown. 



Var. 10? Feelers and mouth very pale green ; tip of the latter 

 and tips of the joints of the former black : nectaries pale green, 

 with black tips: legs very pale green; feet and tips of shanks 

 black. 



Var. 11 ? Pale yellow, with a row of impressions on each side, 

 sometimes with a pale green tinge on the hind part : feelers pale 

 yellow, a little longer than the body ; tips of the joints brown : 



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