PAPIEIUS. 123 



Papirius ornatus^ Nicolet. 



Smijnthurus viridis. Temp. Trans. Ent. Soc, vol. i, 1834. 



— ornatus, Nic. Mem. Soc. Helv., 1842. 



— Coulonii, „ „ „ „ 



— — Gervais. His. Ins. Apteres, vol. iii. 

 Papirius Saundersii, Lubbock. Trans. Linn. Soc, 1862. 

 Smyntlmrus ornatus, Porath. Of. af k. Yetusk-Akad. Forband., 



1869. 



Plate IX. 



Body globular, without a re-entering angle. The 

 great abdominal segment is produced backwards, so 

 that the tAvo terminal segments are not seen from above 

 when the animal is in its natural position. The pen- 

 ultimate segment is small, and only distinguishable on 

 the ventral side. 



Variety a. — Head yellowish, with a tinge of green 

 on the posterior part, more or less distinct brownish 

 markings on the central line, and a curved patch of the 

 same colour behind the antennae; eye-disc, black. 

 Back, greenish, mottled with brown ; the size as well 

 as the darkness of the markings vary in different 

 specimens ; but the fundamental pattern is generally 

 the same, though the proportions of the parts may 

 differ considerably. On each side of the median line 

 on the anterior half of the abdomen is a more or less 

 interrupted band ; about the middle of the back (that 

 is to say, at their lower extremity) these are joined on 

 the outer side by a diagonal band, and the two on each 

 side unite, then separate again, and pass outwards and 

 backwards, soon, however, returning again to the middle 

 line, and thus enclosing a more or less quadrate or 

 circular space of the paler colour. In the middle line, 

 and at the posterior end of the great abdominal seg- 

 ment or segments, is a marking, which is very character- 

 istic. There is first of all a small dark square, imme- 

 diately behind which are three oblongs of the same 

 colour, and at the posterior end a dark band passing 

 backwards. The pale spaces between the oblongs vary 



