104 MANDIBULATA. NEUROFTERA. 



luiesceute, ventre piceo aut atro, alts suhahhreviatis nervis parttvi fuscescen* 

 iibus. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 lin.; Exp. Alar. 14 — 16 lin.) 



Ch. punctifrons. Steph. Caial. 311. JVo. 3454. — Ch. ventralis. Curtis, f. 520. 



Head pale yellowish-green, with a black dot between the antennae, another 

 before each eye, one or two on each side of the collar, two on the back of 

 the thorax, and one on each side between the wings ; abdomen pale greenish, 

 with its under side, excepting the apical segment, pitchy or black, the mar- 

 gins of the segments occasionally greenish; legs pale griseous; wings rather 

 short, and outer nervures partially duskj', with pale hairs ; antennae brown- 

 ish, pale at the base, with a blackish ring on the tip of the basal joint. 



The spots on the collar and thorax are sometimes wanting. 



Abundant at Darenth wood, at the end of June ; also found near 

 Hertford, Ripley, and Dover. 



Sp. 9. alba. Virescente-alba, alls subahbreviatis rotundatis, nervis subfuscentibus, 

 oculis viridi-aeneis. (Long. corp. 4 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 12 lin.) 



He. albus. im«e.— Ch. alba. Steph. Catal. 3U. No. 34>55. 



Greenish-white, immaculate : legs and antennae pale ; wings rather short and 

 rounded at the apex, the nervures very pale fuscescent ; eyes golden-green. 



Taken, in June, in the neighbourhood of London ; also in the 



New Forest. 



Sp. 10. angustipennis. PalUde-viridis, immaculata, alis suhelongatis, angus- 

 tioribus, apice rotundato, nervis virescentibus. (Long. corp. 3§ — 4 lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 12— 15 lin.) 



Ch. angustipennis. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 115. — Ch. angusta. Steph. 

 Catal.su. No. 3457. 



Very pale green, immaculate ; the back with a paler longitudinal streak : eyes 

 moderate, golden ; wings rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the 

 nervures greenish, with some of the transverse costal ones a little fuscescent 

 towards the mid-rib. 



The metathorax has sometimes a rounded brown blotch on each side of the 

 base of the hinder wings. 

 Found, in June, near London. 



Sp. 11. affinis. Luteo-virescens, metathorace nigra nebuloso, alis suhacuminatis 

 viridibus, nervis concoloribus. (Long. corp. 34 — 45 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 12 — 14 

 lin.) 



Ch.affinis. Steph. Catal. 311. No. 3456. 



Yellowish-green ; head and collar and metathorax immaculate, the latter 

 with some faint blackish clouds, approaching in some specimens to black ; 

 wings rather long, somewhat acuminated, pale green, with the nervures of 

 the same hue ; the legs and antennae greenish ; eyes brassy. 



