A. J. Grove 
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Four lateral spots on each side. Cornicles green and cylindrical. Tail green. Legs 
somewhat short, green, with black femoral and tibial points. Wings rounded, with 
warm blackish veins which are slightly expanded at their outer margins. Cubitus 
greenish. Stigma grey and imbricated. Third joint of antenna shows a tendency 
to become ringed. Only the legs and antennae are pilose, and the hairs are non- 
capitate. Eye red. Rostrum reaches to the second coxae.” 
The divisions of the body are a little more distinct in this stage than 
those of the apterous stage. The head is distinctly marked from the 
thorax, but the line of demarcation between the third thoracic segment 
and the first abdominal segment is not at all clear. Also the segments 
of the body have a marked antero-posterior inclination, so that the 
ventral portion of the last thoracic segment lies vertically beneath the 
dorsal portions of the first few abdominal segments. As Buckton states, 
the general colour is green with black markings. The head is deeply 
pigmented all over; but the first thoracic segment is not so deeply 
coloured; while the raised dorsal portion, and the shield-like ventral 
portion of the second thoracic segment, are again deeply pigmented. 
The third thoracic segment has practically no dark colouration on the 
dorsal surface, and but little on the ventral surface, between the coxae 
of the legs. The abdomen has usually seven black stripes or bars across 
it: the first is broken in the middle, and the next three are almost fused 
together to form an irregularly shaped black patch on the abdomen. 
This is a characteristic feature of the insect. The next stripe is con¬ 
siderably shorter than the preceding ones, and not so darkly coloured. 
The last two stretch from margin to margin of the narrowing apex of the 
abdomen. 
The cornicles are greyish black and not green as Buckton states; 
and he is also inaccurate in saying that only the legs and antennae are 
pilose, and the hairs are not capitate, for there are two rows of hairs on 
the dorsal side of the abdomen (see Plate I, Fig. 1), and these, with many 
of the hairs on the antennae, are distinctly capitate. It is true that the 
hairs on the body are not very obvious, and certainly do not give the 
insect that bristly appearance which the apterous form has. 
The legs are not so short in comparison with the body as Buckton 
seems to have inferred. But the remarkable feature is the extra¬ 
ordinary distance between the first and second pairs (see Plate I, Fig. 2); 
this is due to the enlargement of the mesothorax to accommodate the 
wing muscles. The coxa and trochanter of each leg are pigmented in 
addition to the black “ femoral and tibial points.” 
The mesothorax presents one or two features of interest. The 
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