Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. Tenthredo cocci »rus (New spa i 9. | (Green and blue.) of a great number of unnamed species of Tenthredo now in theBritish Museum. It is a native of Darjeeling, in India. THE PURPLE-HORN SAW FLY. 389 This is a really splendid insect. The head and thorax aremetallic green, just like green foil, and the abdomen is bur-nished blue, glossed with green. The legs are of the samecolour as the abdomen, and the antenna; are purple, for whichreason I have given it the specific name of c
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . Fig. Tenthredo cocci »rus (New spa i 9. | (Green and blue.) of a great number of unnamed species of Tenthredo now in theBritish Museum. It is a native of Darjeeling, in India. THE PURPLE-HORN SAW FLY. 389 This is a really splendid insect. The head and thorax aremetallic green, just like green foil, and the abdomen is bur-nished blue, glossed with green. The legs are of the samecolour as the abdomen, and the antenna; are purple, for whichreason I have given it the specific name of coccinocerus, orpurple-horn. The wings are brownish, but glossed withgreen. Our last example of the Saw Flies is the Derecyrta example which is here drawn is in the British Museum,and was brought from Ega, in the Amazons, by Mr. Bates. It is a pretty though not a splendid insect, and derives itsbeauty quite as much from the wings as from the body. Thehead is shining and black, looking very much like a little black.
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