200 Mr. R. MacLachlan's Monograph of 



5. Chrysopa vulgaris, Schneider. 



Chrysopa vulgaris, Schn. Mon. Chrys. 68, pi. vi. fig. 

 2, larva, pi. viii, imago (1851); Hag. Stett. Zeit. 1852, 

 p. 40, Ent. Ann. 1858, p. 21; Brauer, Neurop. Aust. 59; 

 Ed. Pict. Nevrop. d^Esp. 59. Hemerohius perla, Fab. 

 Syst. Ent. 82 (not of Linne); Scop. Ent. Carn. 271; 

 Schrk. Ins. Aust. 311 ; Ratz. Forst. iii. 247, pi. xvi. fig. 

 6; Ramb. Nevrop. 424; Costa, Faun. Nap. pi. xi. fig. 1; 

 Chrysopa perla, Burm, Handb. ii. 980 ; Wesm. Bull. Acad. 

 Brux. 1840, p. 207 ; Brauer, Haid. Abh. 1850, p. 5, pi. i. 

 fig. 1, imago, pi. ii. fig. 8, larva. 0. affinis, Evans, Tr. 

 Ent. Soc. V. 78, pi. ix. fig. 2 (1848). 



Green, a broad yellow stripe along the dorsal sui'face 

 of the thorax and abdomen. 



The raised portion of the vertex flattened, extended 

 between the basal joints of the antennae, immaculate ; 

 front more or less suffused with deep flesh colour at the 

 sides ; palpi not marked with dark ; antennce not quite so 

 long as the wings, the apical portion darker, the basal 

 joint small, and often marked with reddish internally. 



Prothorax longer than broad, angles rounded, divided 

 into two divisions by a raised transverse space in the 

 middle, the anterior portion flattened, the posterior with 

 two raised oblique lines; clothed with sparse blackish 

 hairs; nearly immaculate. 



^4 6(7owien clothed with sparse blackish hairs; the pale 

 yellow dorsal line very conspicuous during life. 



Legs green, with short blackish pubescence ; ungues 

 brown, long-, the curved portion extending much beyond 

 the dilated basal portion. 



Wings narrow, elongate, scarcely acute ; the partition- 

 veinlet of the third cuhital cellule does not reach the 

 transverse veinlet above it; neuration wholly pale in all 

 the wings, ciliated with black ; pterostignia conspicuous, 

 dark (PL XI. fig. 3) . 



After death, dull yellowish. 



Hibernal condition : C. carnea, Steph. 111. vi. 103 (1836) ; 

 Evans, Tr. Ent. Soc. v. 78, pi. ix. fig. 6. C. perla, vars. 

 primaveria, incarnata, and ruhropunctata, Brauer, Haid. 

 Abh. iv. 5. 



The green colour becomes more or less reddish, still 

 retaining the pale dorsal line, though often less conspi- 



