American entomology, or, Descriptions of the insects of North America : illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature . trifasciate with fuscous; wingspale yellow at base, with a fuscous band. DESCRIPTION. Head green: antennae, blackish, first and secondjoints pale; triangular space between the eyes,brown, extending in a curved line backwardsand downwards: thorax greenish-brown, abovedepressed, on the two anterior segments, an in-conspicuous, hardly elevated, longitudinal line:hemelytra pale dull yellowish, at base brownish,nervures at tip, dusky; three equidistan
American entomology, or, Descriptions of the insects of North America : illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature . trifasciate with fuscous; wingspale yellow at base, with a fuscous band. DESCRIPTION. Head green: antennae, blackish, first and secondjoints pale; triangular space between the eyes,brown, extending in a curved line backwardsand downwards: thorax greenish-brown, abovedepressed, on the two anterior segments, an in-conspicuous, hardly elevated, longitudinal line:hemelytra pale dull yellowish, at base brownish,nervures at tip, dusky; three equidistant broadbrownish-black bands, the intermediate one on PLATE xxxiy. the middle: wings pale yellow, with a slighttinge of green; a broad brownish black band,narrowed and marginal behind; tip dull whitish,with the nervures blackish : posterior thighs dullyellowish, with a black band on the middle, onthe inner side, extending broadly towards thebase; tip blackish: posterior tibiae bright fulvous. OBSERVATIONS. This pretty insect occurred in Arkansaw,at the distance of about three hundred milesfrom the Rocky Mountains. The lower figure. PLATE 7//:<n-n <\<\.J,a/, J!iuyravi-r/ fivClu/-oiU HETEROMYIA. ARTIFICIAL CHARACTER. Antennae porrect, filiform, fourteen jointed;five terminal joints elongated; palpi exserted, alittle arcuated, four jointed; basal joint shortest,a little contracted in the middle; ocelli none;eyes reniform; posterior feet much elongated,slender, and with a single nail at tip; anteriorpair with somewhat elongated coxae, and muchdilated femora, armed with a series of shortspines on the anterior edge, on which the arcuat-ed tibia closes. NATURAL CHARACTER. Body moderately slender; head small, round-ed, flattened before; antennae in the middle ofthe face; first joint large, but not long; the eightfollowing joints sub-oval; the five terminal jointslong, not dilated, cylindric, each being twice thelength of one of the preceding ones; eyes reni-form, lar
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