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more or less washed with blackish brown, very strongly and decidedly 

 so in the Victoria, Tamaulipas, pair. The type is of a well-contrasted 

 color form only surpassed in intensity by the Victoria individuals. 



The stuffed Victoria, Tamaulipas, female is practically a color 

 duplicate of the male from that locality, the following comments 

 being based on the remainder of the stuffed females. 



The general pattern of coloration of the females differs from the 

 pattern of the male only in that the pale lateral lines are not indicated 

 on the tegmina and the beaded character of the marginal coloration 

 of the dorsal abdominal segments is less frequent. The lateral and 

 ventral color of the females is, in the stuffed individuals, always 

 green, varying from light yellow-green to parrot green. The dorsal 

 color as indicated in the male is rarely developed at all in the female, 

 and then mostly indicated only on part of the pronotum and extreme 

 lateral sections of the dorsum of the abdomen. A narrow medio- 

 longitudinal line varying from victoria lake to english red is indicated 

 more or less distinctly on a part or all of the pronotum in a portion 

 of the females, w*hile in one specimen the dorsum of the pronotum is 

 weakly suft'used with the last-mentioned color. Head of the female 

 colored as in the opposite sex, but antennae ranging from oil yellow 

 to mars yellow. Pronotum of the female with the lateral lobes 

 colored as in the male; the usual pale lateral lines of the pronotum 

 are subobsolete in about half of the specimens, being indicated on 

 the head in several which have them almost lacking on the pronotum. 

 Tegmina of the female varying from cream white to baryta yellow, 

 the interstices of the dorsal section occasionally slate color, the median 

 section proximad with a variable but always weak narrow line of 

 hay's russet. Abdomen of the female with the lateral pale lines 

 washed with the lateral color as in the male, occasionally very weak, 

 sometimes relatively broad and frequently with the portion on each 

 individual segment roughly elongate trigonal. Ovipositor passing 

 from courge green at the base to ivy green at the apex, w^ashed along 

 the dorsal margin with the color of the median line of the dorsum of 

 the pronotum when that line is present; teeth of the ovipositor 

 pitch brown. Liml)s of the female varying from a type like that of 

 the majority of the males to one in which they are practically course 

 or light bice green, the pattern of the external face of the caudal 

 femora always, although often very faintly, indicated. The presence 

 of the blackish near the tymioanum of the cephalic til)iie is exceptional 

 and not the rule in the female. 



The allotype is about midway between the extremes here de- 



