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A NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PROTEOTERAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. H. Fernald
Affiliation:
Amherst, Mass.

Extract

Proteoteras Moffatiana. n. sp.—Expanse of wings, 14—20 mm. Head, thorax and fore wings emerald green, varying considerably in the different specimens, some being much brighter than others. The fore wings are marked with black and much brighter than others. The fore wings are marked with blacks, and may parts have silvery reflections in certain lights. On the basal fourth of the costa there is a small quadrate black spot, below which the basal part of the wing is more or less marked with streaks or irrorations of black.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1905

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