CALLIPTERUS QUEECEUS. 25 



Yae. I. — Winged viviijarous female. 



Yery small. Bright green with pale thoracic lobes. 

 Head and prothorax very large. Eyes large, bright red. 

 Antennae nearly white, with dark spots at the joints. 

 Seventh joint rather longer than the sixth. Abdomen 

 mottled with paler green. The third ring has two 

 pointed dorsal processes. Legs whitish and short. 

 Cornicles very small, and tipped with black. Wings 

 short and rounded at the tips. Costa much curved, 

 as also is the cubitus. Cubital vein forms in curvature 

 almost the segment of a circle ; furcations almost 

 equally long. Cauda very obtuse. 



Yae. IL — Possibly the produce of an earher birth. 



Much larger. Expanse of wings 0-240 inch. 

 Colour similar to the foregoing, but the thoracic lobes 

 are olive-green, and the abdomen is tinged with orange. 

 Seven or more crescentic bands are ranged down the 

 dorsum. Wings longer than in the preceding variety, 

 and not quite so much curved as to the costa. Eyes 

 pink, spotted with red. 



Winged male. 



Inch. Millimetres. 



Expanse of wings 0-210 5-35 



Size of body 0-060 X 0-020 1-52 X O'SO 



Length of antennae 0*080 2«02 

 ,, cornicles very small 



Small, cinereous green. Head and thorax very 

 broad. AntennjB and legs ashy. Wings rather long, 

 greyish. Cubitus and stigma sooty brown. Yeins black, 

 and clouded slightly at their ajDices. November. 



