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PLATE CCCCXLIV. 



TENTHREDO VIRIDIS. 



GREEN SAW-FLY. 

 HYMENOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a 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 compofed 

 of two ferrated laminae 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 chara&eribus ni- 

 gris. Geoff. Inf. 2. 271. n. I. 



Tenthredo viridis : antennis feptemnodiis, corpore viridi, abdomine fu- 

 pra fufco. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. 924. 27.— Fn. 

 Suec. 1554.— Fabr. Ent. Syji. T. 2. p. 113. n. 33. 

 8ulz.lnf.tal. 18. fig. 112. 



The around colour of this elegant infeft varies from a pale yellow 

 to bright green, and fometimes to brown, the markings of black lines 



appear 



