212 INSECTA SAUNDKKSIANA. 



Medeteris vikidiflos, Fern. 



Fulvo-viridis, thoracis disco fusco, antennis pedibusque nigris,femorihus 

 viridihus, alis subcinereis ad costam subfuscis. 



Pale grassy green, tinged with tawny above and with whitish bloom be- 

 neath, beset with a few black bristles : head brown ahont the eyelets, beset 

 behind the eyes with a row of black bristles, clothed beneath with white 

 hairs : eyes red, thickly clothed with short white hairs : feelers black : disk of 

 the chest broivnish : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest, clothed 

 with very short white hairs: legs black, clothed with very short black hairs, 

 beset with black bristles ; thighs green, with which colour the shanks are 

 also tinged : wings slightly gray, tinged with pale brown beneath the fore 

 border; wing-ribs and poisers tawny; veins black, tawny at the base. 

 Length of the body H line ; of the wings 4^ lines. 



North America. 



Geuns DOLTCHOPUS, Latr. 



DoLicHOPUs BiFRONs, Fem. 



jEneo-viridis, capitis vcrtice cyaneo, abdominis segmentorum marginibus 

 anticis cupreis, antennis fulvis, pedibusjiavis, alis subcinereis. 



Green, beset with black bristles, adorned beneath with a white cover- 

 ing : crown of the head blue, tinged with green and purple ; an olive stripe 

 between the feelers and the epi stoma : eyes red: mouth pitchy: feelers 

 tawny ; third joint pitchy towards the tip ; sixth black, feathered : a bfassi/ 

 tinge on the chest : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest, coppery hi tlie 

 fore border of each segment whose sides are adorned with a white covering : 

 legs yelloiv, clothed with very short black hairs which as usual are most 

 frequent on the feet; thighs stottt ; shanks beset with black bristles: ivings 

 very slightly gray; wing-ribs tawny; veins black, tawny at the base; 

 poisers yellow. Length of the body H— If line; of the wings 3^ — 4 

 lines. 



United States. 



