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NEUROPTEROUS INSECTS. 
thorax with two anterior green lines, and on the 
pleura beneath each wing, also a green oblique line, 
between the bases of the wings are green spots ; 
wings immaculate, tinged with ferruginous, carpal 
spot fuscous ; accessory membrane opaque white ; 
abdomen with a lateral, angulated and almost in- 
terrupted green vitta; segments with a double 
green, sutural, narrow band, and in the middle of 
each, another narrow band, excepting the three ul- 
timate ones, on which are but single sutural bands ; 
caudal foliaceous processes blackish, somewhat di- 
lated in the middle, gradually narrowed to each 
extremity, and rounded at tip; feet black; thighs 
rufous at base. 
Length 3f inches to tip of caudal appendices. 
The abdomen tapers gradually from the base to 
the tip. The description is taken from a recent 
specimen. 
[This species, which is common throughout the 
United States, has usually been referred to the 
heros of Fabricius. — Ed.] 
2. M.junius. Green; abdomen brown, laterally 
bluish ; wings immaculate. 
Ij.junius, Drury, Vol. I., pi. 47, fig. 5. 
$ Body bright green ; eyes brown, tinged behind 
and beneath with yellowish; labium yellowish- 
antennae and intervening line black ; frontal vesicle 
above with an arcuated blue line and central black 
dot; wings immaculate; carpal spot pale brown- 
posterior wings, next to the body and behind the 
nervures, with a small opaque white spot, terminated 
by a black, broad line; feet rufous; tibiae and tarsi 
