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Green, yellow, or reddish-yellow. Thighs ; 3rd pair notched before 

 the apex ; tibise bent below the base, and somewhat thickened. 



Head very finely punctured, and clothed with short yellowish 

 hairs, especially in front ; Crown ; central furrow deep, short ; be- 

 hind the eyes a short black streak. Antenna sometimes entirely 

 brown, or the 1st joint and basal half of the 2nd greenish, thickly 

 clothed with longish, somewhat erect yellowish hairs, especially the 

 1st ; apical half of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, red. Rostrum yellow, or 

 brownish-yellow ; 4th joint brown-black. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; anterior margin concave, angles acute, and 

 produced ; sides narrowly margined, very slightly concave ; hinder 

 angles raised ; posterior margin almost straight across the scutellum, 

 faintly notched in the middle ; disk convex, deeply and finely punc- 

 tured, with a blackish or piceous longitudinal streak extending from 

 behind each eye sometimes across its entire length ; central keel 

 frequently pale yellowish. Scutellum finely punctured ; basal angles 

 black or piceous; central keel yellowish. Elytra: Clavus ; inner 

 margin in yellow examples, with a small piceous spot at the scutellar 

 angle, and another at the apex, the nerve narrowly margined 

 with piceous ; in green examples the apex is generally reddish ; 

 Corium in yellow examples with a more or less distinct, longitudinal, 

 piceous streak between the 1st and 2nd nerves, joined to a triangular 

 brown or piceous spot at the junction of the 1st nerve with the 

 inner basal angle of the cuneus ; in green examples the apical spot 

 alone is visible ; Membrane gray, with a piceous streak extending 

 from below the apex of the inner cell-nerve to the apex of the 

 anterior margin ; cell-nerves in yellow examples, whitish or yellowish- 

 white ; in green examples, frequently the outer cell-nerve is reddish, 

 and the inner one green. Sternum ; Mesosternum black in the centre ; 

 Legs pale or dark-brown, sparingly clothed with short yellowish 

 hairs ; thighs ; 3rd pair notched before the apex, with 2 longitudinal 

 rows of piceous spots on the upper side ; tibiae bent below the base, 

 and somewhat thickened, apex often ferruginous-red ; tarsi yel- 

 lowish, or brownish-yellow ; apex of the 3rd joint and claws piceous. 



Abdomen underneath yellowish, sides with a piceous streak. 



Length, 3^ 4^ lines. 



This insect bears a great resemblance to M. virens ; the principal 

 distinctive character being the absence of the piceous spot at the 

 apex of the corium in the last named. We have not seen an 

 authentic British specimen of M. virens. A common species, and 



