11U DESCRIPTIONS OFTHB MYR1AP0DJE 



Species. 1. S. *marginaia. Body obscure oil 

 vaceous green ; segments margined with dark green: 

 head castaneous. 



Inhabits the Southern States. 



My Cabinet. 



Body obscure olivaceous green, beneath whitish 

 or fulvous ; segments impunctured, margined each 

 side and behind with black-green, first, third, and 

 fourth shortest, five or six terminal ones more dis- 

 tinctly margined; head chesnut colour; antennce green; 

 feet pale, tipped with blueish green, uails blackish ; 

 posterior Jeet hardly longer than the three terminal 

 segments of the body conjunctly; length of the joints 

 hardly equal to double their breadth; first joint spi- 

 nous beneath and within, and armed with an acute, 

 strong, projecting angle at the tip. 



Length more than two and an half inches. 



Rather common in Georgia and East Florida; it is 

 also found in the West Indies, but does not occur so 

 far north as Pennsylvania. 



2. S. *viridis. Body blueish green; base of the 

 feet and all beneath, whitish. 



Inhabits Georgia aud East Florida. 



My Cabinet. 



Body above blueish green immaculate; posterior 

 segments margined with pale yellowish; mandibles 

 yellowish- white; feet whitish at base, terminal joints 

 pale blueish-green, posterior pair pale yellow. 



Length, about two inches and an half. 



