appendix 309 



Page 655. Medeterus glaber, Babnston's MSS. 



Yiridis, thoracis disco nigro-ameo, abdomine seneo-viridi, anten- 

 nis nigris, pedibus viridibus, tarsia nigris, alia cinereis, fuaco bima- 

 culatis. 



Body green ; bead and chest beset with a k-w black hairs ; head 

 covered with white bloom in the male, with golden bloom in the 

 female; eyes red; month and feelers black; disk of the chesl 

 bronze-black; sides covered with tawny bloom; breast covered 

 with white bloom; abdomen brassy ; green, covered above with 

 short tawny hairs ; under side covered with white bloom ; legs 

 bright green, rather stout, clothed with short black hairs ami 

 bristles ; hips covered with white bloom ; feet black ; wings gray ; 

 each with two small brown spots, one on the cross-vein, the other 

 on the fourth longitudinal vein, a little before half the distance 

 between the cross-vein and the tip of the wing ; wing-ribs pitchy ; 

 veins black ; poisers tawny. Length of the body If line ; of the 

 wings 5 lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented 

 by G. Barnston, Esq. 



Page 655. Medeterus chrysologus, Barxston's MSS., Fern. 



Xigro-ameus, antennis nigris, pedibus viridibus, tarsis nigris, 

 alis cinereis, fusco bimaculatis, ad costam subfuscis. 



Body brassy black ; head covered with golden bloom, which is 

 paler and brighter towards the mouth ; eyes dark-red, covered with 

 white down ; mouth and feelers black ; sides of the chest covered 

 with tawny, bloom ; breast and under side of the abdomen adorned 

 with white bloom; a row of black punctures on each side of 

 the abdomen, as in other species; legs green, clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles; hips and thighs covered with white bloom; 

 feet black; wings gray, brown along the fore borders, each with 

 two darker brown spots, like those of K glaber, but larger and 

 nmre distinct; wing-ribs tawny; veins black; poisers pitchy. 

 Length of the body l£ line* of the vrings :: lines. 



a, St. Martin's Falls, Albany Biver, Hudson's Bay. Presented 

 by G. Barnston, Esq. 



