This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...3 equally long and each shorter than i, 4 shorter by than 3, and 5 about 4 as long as 4. All the visible joints very finely, closely and evenly rugoso-punctate so as to be subopaque. Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen, piceouB; sheaths broad, tapered to a point, and with very fine, short, dense ciliations. Venter ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...3 equally long and each shorter than i, 4 shorter by than 3, and 5 about 4 as long as 4. All the visible joints very finely, closely and evenly rugoso-punctate so as to be subopaque. Ovipositor nearly as long as the abdomen, piceouB; sheaths broad, tapered to a point, and with very fine, short, dense ciliations. Venter with the sutures broadly whitish. Legs pale rufous, the 4 front coxae except the lower surface of the middle ones, both trochanters of the 4 front legs, the terminal one of the hind legs, and also the hind knees, all whitish. Tips of the 4 front tarsi, extreme tips of the hind femora up to the whitish knees, an exterior vitta on the hind tibia extending from the knee to the tip and towards the tip extending all around, and the whole of the hind tarsi, all pale fuscous. Tarsal claws with very long pectinations. Wings subhyaline; veins black, radius rufous; stigma rufous edged with black, and 3 times as long as wide. Areolet rhomboidal, the peduncle as long as the rhomb. Length $.4I-.45 inch. Front wing $.3S-.37 inch. Ovipos..27 inch. Seven; 6" unknown to me. Lampronota tegularis, Cress., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. i63.--d1.--Differs only from the preceding as follows: --i. The entire face except the lateral foveee at tip, the entire clypeus, a short orbit extending above the antennie, and a spot on the lower surface of the ist antennal joint, are all white. Except the above spol, the antenna e are brown-black immaculate. 2. The thorax is more coarsely sculptured, and, except that the tegulae and a minute line under the front wing are white, all the white and rufous markings of scutellaris, Cress. are absent. 5. The abdomen is more coarsely punctate, elongate-oval instead of clavate, and of course more elongate, the terminal joints...
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