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passing ventrally ; the apex is hairy, curved and projecting. Legs, 

 with the anterior and mid coxa? and trochanters black and testaceous ; 

 the hind coxas and trochanters yellowish- white ; the fore and mid 

 femora are black, except at the apex where they are testaceous 

 or reddish, in the hind femora the base is white ; tibire and 

 tarsi brick-dust red, but the tarsi show fuscous shades, especially 

 apically. 



Wings hyaline, with a small pale basal spot ; costa reddish-brown 

 to brown ; stigma black apically. 



The male is much like the female, but has no pale area on the 

 fifth segment, the whole being shiny black ; the antennae are very 



IF. Edenden. 



FIG. 285. RASPBERRY SNAGS WITH EtnphytllS tinctug CHAMBERS. 



similar but a trifle thicker ; the hind femora are entirely dark, and 

 the palpi are quite white apically. 



The first adults hatched out on the 21st of May and continued 

 to appear until the 23rd of May. 



There are thus evidently two broods, if not more, for they soon 

 commence to deposit eggs which hatch some seven to nine days later. 



The eggs are laid, as Cameron (3) describes, on the underside of 

 the leaves in rows. 



The larva (Fig. 286), when mature, reaches about i inch in 

 length. It is then of a general greenish and pale greyish-green hue. 

 The head is transparent yellowish with a greenish tinge ; eyes black ; 

 mouth parts dark brown ; dorsum deep olive-green, with a pale 



