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amount of variation in intensity of color pattern and color tone. 

 The pattern is considerably recessive and intensive in the male, but 

 in the female the recessive extreme is even greater than in the male, 

 although the intensive is not as decided. The normal pattern as 

 found in both sexes is as follows: a dorsal color involving the occiput, 

 fastigium, dorsum of pronotum, and dorsal surface of the abdomen; 

 pale postocular bars extending to the dorsal base of the cerci; a 

 lateral and ventral color involving face, gense, lateral lobes of prono- 

 tum, pleura, and lateral and ventral aspects of abdomen. In intensive 

 individuals the dorsal color is decidedly darker than the lateral and 

 ventral color, in average individuals in part at least so, in recessive 

 individuals nearly ( cf ) or quite ( 9 ) similar in tone. Strongly 

 intensive individuals generally have the distal extremity of the caudal 

 femora infuscate, but this is not a rule, as occasionally average and 

 rarely moderately recessive individuals have this marking present. 



Male. Dorsal color ranging from ochraceous tawny and sudan 

 brown to claret brown and maroon, solid and uniform on head and 

 pronotum, generally restricted to the lateral sections of the dorsum 

 of the abdomen and in intensive individuals blackish next to the 

 pale lateral lines, the distal margins of the abdominal segments edged 

 with the pale color of the lateral bars, this edging subobsolete in the 

 recessive specimens and narrowing mesad in all, a more or less 

 distinct dark beading characterizing the same margins. Pale lateral 

 bars ranging from cream white to very pale orange yellow always 

 indicated in the male. Lateral and ventral color ranging from cream 

 buff and pinkish *buff to brownish olive, the green complimentary 

 phase ranging to civette green. Face in the extreme green condition 

 with broad paired vertical bars of the pale color of the lateral bars 

 placed ventrad of the eyes and antennal bases, the median pair weakly 

 continued to the clypeus; eyes varying from cameo brown to bay; 

 antennae varying from raw sienna and mars yellow to madder brown, 

 weaker distad. Lateral lobes of the pronotum with a broad margin 

 of the pale lateral color on the ventral and greater portion of the 

 caudal margin, the dorsal section of the lateral lobes washed more or 

 less with the dorsal color; pale paired lines more or less severed at 

 the median sulcus. Tegmina with the marginal field of the color of 

 the pale lines; region of the humeral trunk varying from orange 

 rufous to morocco red; remainder of tegmina with the base color 

 blackish brown, the venation of the same tones as the pale lines. 

 Limbs of the lateral color more or less washed with the dorsal color, 

 in intensive individuals decidedly so, the blackish-brown infuscation 



