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One after another of these bugs changes from its pupa to its per¬ 
fect state upon different days in the fore part of June. Among a 
large number found on the eleventli day of this month, only one was 
remaining in its pupa state. With this change they are abruptly 
increased to double their previous size, now measuring a quarter of an 
inch in length to the end of the body and three-tenths of an inch to 
the tips of the wing covers. Their colors are also more bright and 
different from those of the pupae. It is a pretty insect, being, when 
newly captured, of a bright grass green or apple green color, with the 
head and neck orange and four stripes on the thorax and wing covers 
jet black. In drying, specimens lose their green color and become 
bright lemon yellow. The females are much more numerous than 
the males, and their colors incline to be paler and their stripes and 
other black markings smaller. 
This bug is of an oval form much more than twice as long as wide, flattened, mode¬ 
rately convex both on the back and the under side, with the surface on the upper 
side smooth and shining and destitute of any hairiness. 
The head is small, more broad than the anterior end of the thorax, but scarcely half 
as wide as its broadest part, four times as broad as long. Viewed in front it is trian¬ 
gular. In the male it is orange red, in the female orange yellow. The nose is repre¬ 
sented by an elevated oblong black spot, to the lower end of which the beak or trunk 
is joined. This reaches slightly beyond the base of the first pair of legs. It is taper¬ 
ing, four-jointed, orange yellow, the first joint black in front, the second joint black 
on the sides, and the liist half of the fourth joint black. The eyes occupy the outer 
corners of the head, and are smallish, protuberant, oval, and blackish brown. The 
antennae almost equal the body in length. They are slender, tapering, bearded with 
fine, short, inclined hairs, black, with their basal part pale yellow. They are four- 
jointed, the first joint thickest and slightly longer than the width of the head, thicker 
toward its tip, its surface glossy and uneven; second joint more slender than the first 
and double its length, scarcely thicker iu and beyond its middle than toward its 
base ; third and fourth joints quite slender and thread-like, the third rather longer 
than the first, the fourth but half the length of the third. 
The thorax is more broad than long, its sides straight and strongly converging, its 
base twice as broad as its apex, the basal edge straight in the middle and curving 
forward on each side with the outer corners bluntly rounded ; the apex margined by 
a roundly elevated line of a lemon yellow color, the surface convex and inclining 
obliquely downward and forward. Across its anterior third it is roundly elevated, 
smooth and polished, and of the same color as the head, this elevation having on its 
anterior face near the middle two shallow punctures, and commonly a similar punc¬ 
ture on each shoulder; and in the middle of its bind edge is a slight depression in 
which two shallow punctures close together may usually be seen. The remainder of 
the surface is minutely punctured and lemon yellow, with four black stripes, which 
are larger in the males, the middle ones often as broad as long, more broad than tho 
space between them, widening backward and almost twice as broad at their hind as 
at their fore ends, with their hind ends slenderly separated from the hind edge; the 
outer stripes slender and more than four times as long as broad, separated from the 
outer edge by a slender yellow line, and the space between them and tho inner stripes 
