APPENDIX 309 



Page 655. Medeterus glaber, BABXSTON'S MSS. 



Yiridis, thoracis disco nigro-aeneo, abdomine seneo-viridi, anten- 

 nis nigris, pedibus viridibus, tarsis nigris, alls cinereis, fusco bima- 

 culatis. 



Body green ; head and chest beset with a few black hairs ; head 

 covered with white bloom in the maJe, with golden bloom in the 

 female ; eyes red ; mouth and feelers black ; disk of the chest 

 bronze-black ; sides covered with tawny bloom ; breast covered 

 with white bloom ; abdomen brassy-green, covered above with 

 short tawny hairs ; under side covered with white bloom ; legs 

 bright green, rather stout, clothed with short black hairs and 

 bristles ; hips covered with white bloom ; feet black ; wings gray ; 

 each with two small brown spots, one on the cross-vein, the other 

 on the fourth longitudinal vein, a little before half the distance 

 between the cross-vein and the tip of the wing ; wing-ribs pitchy ; 

 veins black; poisers tawny. Length of the body If line; of the 

 wings 5 lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented 

 by G. Barnston, Esq. 



Page 655. Medeterus clirysologus, BARNSTON'S MSS., Fern. 



^igro-aeneus, antennis nigris, pedibus viridibus, tarsis nigris, 

 alls cinereis, fusco bimaculatis, ad costam subfuscis. 



Body brassy black ; head covered with golden bloom, which is 

 paler and brighter towards the mouth ; eyes dark-red, covered with 

 white down ; mouth and feelers black ; sides of the chest covered 

 with tawny blbom ; breast and under side of the abdomen adorned 

 with white bloom ; a row of black punctures on each side of 

 the abdomen, as in other species ; legs green, clothed with black 

 hairs and bristles ; hips and thighs covered with white bloom ; 

 feet black ; wings gray, brown along the fore borders, each with 

 two darker brown spots, like those of M. glaber, but larger and 

 more distinct ; wing-ribs tawny ; veins black ; poisers pitchy. 

 Length of the body l line ; of the wings 3 lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented 

 by G. Barnston, Esq. 



