Mr. PARKINSON'S ‘Defeription of ibe Phafina dilatatum. Iga 
fome ftrong {pines ; ; but the eibiz, or fecond joints, are armed with 
far larger and ftronger owes. The upper and middle pair of legs 
are of a nearly fimilar ftru€ture’'in pr oportion, but much lefs 
ftrongly fpined: ~The colour of all. the legs is green, tinged with 
brown; the fpines blackith. “The general colour of the thorax, 
abdomen and head is now brown, but! ‘might probably have been 
of a gteenifh caft-in the living animal. “The wings’ are fcarcely 
larger than ‘the elytra or Witig-fheaths, and feem originally to have 
been reddifh, a tinge of that” colour {till pervading: fome parts of 
the wings; the tips are green. Thefe wings are very ftrongly 
veined with brown fibres. . The Wwing-cafes are of a {trong opake 
green, ‘and were doubtle(s 1 more ‘vivid in “the living infect. They 
have a great refemblance toa | pair of leaves. The mouth has four 
palpi, which are Cather long; ‘and under the mouth are fituated two 
Jeaf-fhaped organs, perhaps belonging to the aétion of that part. 
The antennz are wanting, the firft joints alone remaining. The 
abdomen is terminated by a kind of boat-fhapéd organ, the keel of 
which poffeffes a confiderable {pace beneath the abdomen, fo that 
fewer fegments appear on that part than above. The concavity of 
this organ is covered above by a terminal fcale and bifid procefs, 
conttitutine the tip of the abdomen on the upper part.) On raifi ing 
this valve, an cum; tlearly of the fize of a pea, but of a more length- 
ened form, was difcovered lying in the cavity beneath ; and on in- 
{petting farther into the cavity of the abdomen, a great many more 
ova, exactly fimilar, were found, to the number of five or fix-and- 
twenty—fome ftill remaining in the upper part. Thefe eggs are of 
a flightly oblong fhape, but flattened at one end: they are of a 
brown colour, and marked all over with numerous impreffed points ; 
and have on one fide a mark or double-waved line, fo difpofed as to 
oo a kind of crofs, as if curved on the furface: the flattened. 
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