STRANGE FORMS. 



7?>7 



The thorax is green, with a yellow collar. The upper wings 



are greenish, spotted with 



white towards the base. 



Then conies a broad, waving 



band of cream-white, and 



the two patches at the tip 



of the wing are green. 



The lower wings are orange 



at the base, and tend to a 



pale yellow towards the 



tips. 



Among the Homoptera, 

 variety of form seems to 

 run riot, and we have in 

 the present instance one of 

 the most singular forms that could be imagined. Anyone 



Fig. 477. — Poicocera combusta. 

 (Golden, white, and orange ) 



Fig. 478. — Phenax aurieoraa. 

 (Green, with yellow head-tuft and white processes.) 



unacquainted with entomology could hardly believe that it really 



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