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PLATE CCCCXLIV. | 
TENTHREDO VIRIDIS. 
GREEN SAW-FLY. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth witha horny curved mandible, toothed within; the jaw ftraight - 
and obtufe at the tip: lip cylindrical and trifid: feelers four, unequal, 
and filiform : wings tumid, the lower ones fmaller: fting compoied 
- of two ferrated laminz and almoft fecreted: ftemmata three. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Green: head and thorax, charactered with black: abdomen with 
black fpots. 
‘TeNTHREDO VIRIDIS: capite thoraceque fupra charaéteribus ni- 
gris. Geoff: Inf. 2. 271i. n. 1. 
Tenthredo viridis: antennis feptemnodiis, corpore viridi, abdomine fu- 
pra fufco. Linn. Syfi. Nat..2. 994. 27.—Fn. 
Suec. 1554.—Fubr. Ent, Syfi. T. 2. p. 113. 2. 33. 
Suiz. Inf. tab. 18. fig. 112. 
The ground colour of this elegant infett varies from a pale yellow 
to bright green, and fometimes to brown, the markings of black lines 
appear 
