MORGAN HEBARD I 01 



Tegmina transparent, ochraceous-buff, becoming paler distad. 

 Wings hyaline, with area of costal veins and, to a less degree, distal 

 portion of anterior field, washed with ochraceous-buff. Abdomen 

 ochraceous-buff, washed with buckthorn brown or ochraceous- 

 tawny, particularly distad. In rare specimens, showing maximum 

 recessive coloration, the darker portions of the head are weak 

 ochraceous-tawny and the pronotal disk is of the pale general col- 

 oration. In the maximum intensive coloration, the dark portions 

 of the head are deep bay and nearly the entire anterior field of the 

 wings are suffused with ochraceous-tawny. 



9 . (Normal.) Head shining blackish chestnut brown, minute 

 ocellar spots pale ochraceous-buff, mouthparts and also limbs 

 ochraceous-tawny. Pronotum and tegmina hazel, the latter with 

 marginal field slightly paler. Dorsal surface of abdomen shining 

 dark chestnut brown, the segments washed more and more heavily 

 proximad with hazel. Ventral surface of abdomen tawny. In 

 rare specimens of maximum recessive coloration the head is tawny, 

 the remaining portions of the insect ochraceous-tawny with un- 

 derparts and limbs slightly paler. In the maximum intensive 

 coloration, occasionally encountered, the head and dorsal surface 

 of abdomen are shining blackish chestnut brown, the pronotum 

 and tegmina shining suffused chestnut, the limbs pale tawny and 

 ventral surface of abdomen chestnut brown. The majority of the 

 specimens before us range from the normal toward the intensive 

 color condition, no geographic significance being found. 



The ootheca is small, usually distinctly less than three times as 

 long as deep, and is carried with suture directed dorsad. Its sur- 

 face is microscopically granulose with vertical divisions weakly 

 indicated. The suture is supplied with minute, rather well spaced, 

 conical knobs, arranged approximately one at the extremity of, 

 and one intermediate between, each of the vertical divisions. 



The range of the species is now known to extend northward on 

 the Atlantic coast as far as Norway and Orono, Maine. South of 

 these points it is widely distributed to the coast as far as the lati- 

 tude of Lillington. North Carolina. ^'^^ Farther southward it is 

 found only in the Piedmont and numerous in the Appalachians to 



1" Males already recorded by Rehn and Hebard, as the synonymous borealis, from 

 Fernandina, Florida, do indeed represent the present species, but it appears quite prob- 

 able that these were wrongly labelled. Those authors' records of females from Golds- 

 boro. North Carolina, and Mena, Arkansas, must be referred to fulvescetis. 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



