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The wingless fejnale varies in color, being red, green, brown or \ el- 

 low ; the front is convex in the middle, with a distinct lobe each side ; 

 antennce, black, nearly as long, or longer, than the body ; knees, tarsi and 

 tips of the tibiK, black. 



Winged female brown, rarely green; abdomen with a row of black 

 dots on each side, tip yellow ; wings pellucid ; veins pale yellow. 



In France, as described by Goureau, the wingless individuals are one- 

 tenth of an inch long, green ; eyes, tips of the antennae, of the femora 

 and of the tibiae, black. Winged specimens one- sixth of an inch to the 

 tips of the wings; head and thorax a testaceous yellow; abdomen, green; 

 wings, transparent, with a brownish band between the border and the 

 subcostal vein ; rest as apterous individuals. 



Dr. Fitch describes the winged female as follows: "It is o.io long, 

 or to the tip of the closed wings o. 20 of an inch. Head transverse, convex 

 in front, rectilinear at base, dull pale yellow. Eyes jutting out from each 

 side of the head, globular, usually of a rusty reddish color. Eyelets or 

 ocelli three, appearing like minute glassy dots placed at the angles of an 

 imaginary triangle, far apart, one near the upper edge of each eye, and 

 the third one forming a slight projection upon the middle of the forehead. 

 Beak oppressed to the breast, arising between the base of the fore legs 

 and reaching halfway to the middle legs, pale green, its tip black. An- 

 tennas long and slender, about equaling the body in length, tapering, 

 black, their bases obscure yellowish, seven-jointed. Thorax nearly glob- 

 ular; collar much narrower, narrowing forward, a little longer than the 

 head, grass green ; remainder of the thorax dull pale yellow and shining, 

 above, with a large egg-shaped black or brown spot on each side, between 

 the forward ends of these spots a small oval one, which reaches forward 

 to the collar, these three spots being elevated, convex and polished ; sides 

 beneath the wing sockets, with an oval brown spot, paler than those on 

 the back, and placed obliquely. Breast dull black between the four 

 anterior legs and often dusted with a glaucous powder. Scutel dull pale 

 yellow, appearing as an elevated, smooth, transverse ridge of a semi-cir- 

 cular form above the base of the abdomen. Abdomen broad oval, 

 rounded at tip, grass green, with a row of about three blackish dots on 

 each side forward of the base of the honey-tubes. Honey-tubes black, as 

 long as to the tip of the abdomen, slightly thicker towards their bases. 

 Tail very pale greenish-yellow, straight along its upper, and convex on its 

 under side. Legs long and slender, hind pair longest ; thighs very pale, 

 greenish, towards their middle becoming yellowish, and beyond this 

 black ; shanks bearded with fine short hairs, pale dull yellow, their tips 

 black. Feet short and slender, but half as thick as the shanks, obscurely 

 two-jointed and with two small claws at their end. Wings held together 

 in a steep roof over the body, transparent, with slender brown veins, the 

 rib-vein thick and sulphur yellow, as is the stigma spot also, the veins 

 bounding its two sides being brown ; inner edge with the customary 

 blackish streak extending forward for a short distance from the tip of the 

 first vein. First and second veins more than twice as far apart at their 

 tips as at their bases. Third vein as far from the second at its origin as 



