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rather large : abdomen slender, nearly linear, being a little dilated at the 

 apex, which in the males is furnished with semicircular appendages, of the 

 female with simple ones ; luings half expanded (as in Smerinthus) during 

 repose. Mask of the larvas with a double projection on the upper edge of 

 the nientum. 



From Agrion the species of this genus are distinguished witli 

 facility by the areolets of the wings being more numerous, and by the 

 greater portion of them towards the apex, especially on the margins, 

 being either pentagonal or polygonal, rarely quadrangular, the fourth 

 longitudinal nervure being much angulated in numerous zigzags ; 

 the stigma is oblong, and the males are distinguished by having the 

 apex of the abdomen armed with curved forceps ; yet, regardless of 

 these obvious distinctions, these insects, as well as those of the 

 preceding genus, were long considered as constituting one species 

 only, and are thus considered in the latest works of the celebrated 

 Latreille, although the discrepancies of the two genera were pointed 

 out by Leach in 1810 ! ! 



Sp. 1. viridis. Supra lateribusque viridi-ccnea, nitens, suhtusflavescens,pedihus 

 luteis supra ati'is, stigmate rufo. (Long. corp. 17 — 18 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 20 — 

 21 lin.) 



Ag. viridis. Van. Linden, p. 36. — Le. sponsa. Stcph. Catal. 308. No. 3420. 



Head bright brassy-green ; mouth and beneath yellow ; tips of the mandibles 

 black ; collar brassy-green, with the sides and a dorsal line yellow in the 

 females ; thorax above bright grassy-green, with three slender longitudinal 

 yellow lines, the sides and space between the wings luteous-yellow ; 

 abdomen above and on the sides rich brassy-green, beneath yellowish, the 

 extreme edge of most of the basal segments also yellowish ; upper caudal 

 appendage in the male luteous, the tip fuscous ; lower fuscous ; legs luteous, 

 black above ; wings with a red or fuscescent stigma. 



Some examples are of a brighter and richer green than others, while some are 

 bronzed. 

 Not uncommon in the New Forest in June and July ; also found 



near Wanstead in Essex, and in the vicinity of Ripley, and in 



Suffolk. 



Sp. 2. Nymplia. Supra lateribusque viridi-wnea, nitens, subtus flavescens, 

 pedibus rujescentibus supra atris, thoracis lateribus utrinque lined nigra, stig- 

 mate atro. (Long. corp. 17 — 18 lin.; Exp. Alar. 20 — 21§ lin.) 



Le. Nympha. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 308. No. 3421. 

 Head bright brassy-green or bronzed above, the mouth and beneath yellowish; 

 thorax also brassy-green above, with three fine yellowish streaks, the sides 



