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may be partly due to shrivelling as the specimen has been dried 

 from alcohol. 



Color Notes. — Color pattern and tones as a whole the same as 

 found in A. gracilipes s.s. The general color is as deep as winter 

 green in only a few specimens, in the majority of the greenish 

 specimens nearer light oriental green, the brownish extreme with 

 no specimen as deep as clay color, the majority cinnamon-buff 

 and a few washed with pinkish cinnamon. The intensification of 

 the green on the distal portion of the tegmina and the exposed sec- 

 tion of the wings is found in a large number of the greenish indi- 

 viduals, some specimens of a pinkish buff general color having the 

 same area tinged with pale greenish. The number of specimens 

 showing at least traces of greenish far outnumber those not exhibit- 

 ing the same, and it seems that the brownish phase is a reaction to 

 environmental conditions, although we have little positive evidence 

 on this point. In a large portion of the series the abdomen is far 

 more yellowish than the remainder of the body, but a very con- 

 siderable portion of this is due to drying. 



When compared with the color description of A. gracilipes s.s., 

 the following noteworthy features of difference are apparent. 

 Caudal margin of the pronotal disk frequently having the garnet 

 brown portion of the edging reduced to a mere thread; disk of the 

 pronotum and occiput in the majority of the specimens with a 

 more or less distinct thread-like medio-longitudinal line of creamy. 

 Tegmina with the immediate vicinity of the rami of the anterior 

 ulnar and discoidal veins adjacent to the sutural margin frequently 

 pale in the greenish specimens, usually opaline green; sutural mar- 

 gin of the entire tegmen frequently edged, in both sexes, with deep 

 vin^ceous to seal brown and hessian brown. Pale lines on the 

 sides of the abdomen decided in the majority of the specimens and 

 almost always bordered ventrad with a line of from pale garnet 

 brown to very deep maroon, the dorsal dark line of the marking 

 less distinct than in A. gracilipes s.s., often a mere morocco red 

 wash and quite frequently absent, dorsum of the abdomen between 

 these lines often punctulate with garnet brown. 



Distribution. — The present form ranges from as far north as Nio- 

 brara, in extreme northern Nebraska, south as far as Tonala, Chiapas, 

 Mexico, east to northeastern Kansas (Fairmount), east-central 

 (Dallas, Calvert and Victoria) and southern (Brownsville) Texas, 



