304. MINUTES 



122. Head, with the eyes, and two ear-like appen- 



TZNTHREDO dageS, bliick. 

 OF 



THETURNEP Tentacula, or mouth-feelers, four; amber- 

 coloured. Mouth whitilh. 



Wings four , deflex ; thirty-five hundrcdths 

 of an inch long; light-coloured membrane, 

 with black nerves. Upper wings with ftrong, 

 black, clubbed nerves along the outer edges : 

 under wings, lefs nervous; pro] edting one- 

 twentieth of an inch behind the apex. 



Legs fix ; amber ; with black feet, ad five 

 black articulations. Hind legs, three-tenths of 

 an inch long. 



Body (horn the neck to the apex) thirty-five 

 hundredths of an inch: bright orange ; ex- 

 cept two diamond-fhaped fcutuli, or patches on 

 the Ihoulders, black. 



Thorax lefsthan one-third of the length of 

 the whole body. 



Abdomen mmz than two-thirds of the body ; 

 and fixed to the thorax, without any infetticn. 

 Its form is between the cone and the cylinder 

 (the greatelt diameter about half its length) 

 compofed of eight fegments on the upper fide, 

 atid fix on the under fide. Under the two im- 

 perfecl: fegments lies the 



Pubes which opens under the laft perfect 



fegment of the abdomen ; and the 



Sting 



