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feet and the tips of the shanks are brown ; the hips are large ; 

 the feet are rather long ; the second joint and the shanks are 

 slightly curved. 



1st variety. The abdomen is yellow. 



2nd variety. The abdomen is very pale buff, with three green 

 stripes along its back. 



3rd variety. The head and the fore-chest are red, and the rest 

 of the body is white with two green stripes along the back : there 

 is also a tawny space round the base of each nectary. 



4th variety. The body is red, and mottled with white powder, 

 and that chiefly on each side of the fore-part of the body which 

 is pale red beneath. 



5th variety. The disc of the abdomen is slightly metallic. 



6th variety. The nectaries are black. 



7th variety. The shanks are pale yellow towards the base ; 

 their tips and the feet are black. 



8th variety. The legs are yellow ; the feet, the tips of the thighs, 

 the base and tips of the shanks, and the whole of the foi'c-shanks 

 are black. 



The viviparous winged female. While a pupa the body and the 

 limbs are hairy : the body is bright red : the limbs are yellow ; the 

 tips of the feelers, the eyes, the tip of the mouth, the knees, the 

 feet, and the tips of the shanks are black : the feelers are hardly 

 half the length of the body. It acquires wdngs in the middle of 

 June, and is then red : the disc of the chest is dark gray : the ab- 

 domen is yellow, elliptical, shining, broader than the chest, covered 

 with little black dots, and having a whitish line bordered with 

 darker colour along its back ; it is paler beneath : the feelers are 

 yellow, and hardly half the length of the body ; their tips are 

 brown : the mouth is yellow with a black tip : the nectaries are 

 black, and each of them is surrounded by a red circle : the legs 

 are yellow ; the knees and the tips of the thighs are dull red ; the 

 feet and the tips of the shanks are black : the mngs are colourless 

 and longer than the body ; the wing-ribs are yellow ; the brands 

 and the veins are dull red ; the rib-veins begin to widen into the 

 brands at about half the length of the wing ; the brand is long 

 and linear ; the angle near its tip is less obtuse than that of A, 

 Abietis, but more obtuse than that of A, Picea ; the fourth vein 

 is nearly straight ; the third vein is obsolete near its source ; it 

 is forked before one-third and forked again after two-thirds of its 

 length ; the angles formed by these forks are very acute; the tip 

 of the upper branch of the second fork is very near the tip of the 

 fourth vein ; the first and the second veins are almost straight ; 

 they are near each other at the base, but very far apart at the 

 tips. 



Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 

 Ann. ^ Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 2. Vol. ii. 7 



