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This and the one next it unite anteriorly in a prominent hume¬ 
rus. The edge of the elytron is recurved like that of the thorax, 
forming a still deeper gutter just within the margin. 
The thorax and elytra are commonly brownish green or grassy 
green throughout, but the humeral angles are occasionally 
touched with brown, as is likewise the smooth scutellum. The 
sutural line is also sometimes brown. The epipleurse are green, 
and do not attain the tips of the elytra. The legs and under 
surface of the body are pubescent except the prosternum, which 
is smooth, or nearly so. The abdomen is sparsely punctured. 
The thighs are usually green, but the tibiae, the tarsi, and the 
sides of the metasternum are more or less deeply tinged with 
brown. 
Egg {PI. XV., Fig. 1 ).—The egg is of a dirty white color and 
very minute, .025 of an inch in length and .015 of an inch wide; 
narrower at one end than at the other, having in fact almost 
precisely the shape of a, hen’s egg. Under the microscope the sur¬ 
face is seen to be thickly dotted with minute hexagonal pits, 
about twenty in its entire length, and under a higher power the 
bottom of each of these pits exhibits still more minute depres¬ 
sions, seven or eight to each reticulation. 
