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Color Notes. — The pattern of the male is exactly the same as in 

 carita, showing almost all the same variations, ^^ but the tones are 

 paler and weaker, ranging from pale yellow-green and light turtle 

 green (on tegmina) to straw yellow and glass green (on tegmina). 

 The purplish edging of the postocular bars and the caudal margins 

 of the pronotum is almost always weaker than in carita, the orange 

 suffusion proximad on the antennae is weaker, sometimes subobso- 

 lete, and again more brownish. On the male tegmina there is a 

 tendency toward a more or less extensive brownish delineation of 

 the rami of the discoidal and the ulnar veins and their rami, oc- 

 casionally this is not noticed and again both margins of the teg- 

 mina are more or less brownish, the costal in one case pencilled 

 with pale pansy purple. Abdomen with the proximo-dorsal ap- 

 pendage more or less brownish; lateral and dorsal lines of the ab- 

 domen varying in about the same proportion as in carita. Of 

 the female sex we have but one individual (that from Crestline) 

 which has retained the original coloration. It is pale lumiere 

 green on the head and pronotum, becoming hoary white on the 

 pleura and baryta yellow to ochraceous-buff on the abdomen, the 

 limbs greenish white passing more or less distinctly into "pale cendre 

 green on the tibiae. The pale areas on the head, pronotum, lateral 

 bars on the abdomen and pleural edgings hoary white with little 

 or no accompanying purplish. Tegmina pale cendre green with 

 the costal margin touched with hoar}^ white. The abdomen has 

 no median bar, but the dorsal section, i.e. that between the lateral 

 bars, shows traces of a hoary white suffusion; ovipositor ochraceous- 

 buff passing into prout's brown distad, the teeth on the distal sec- 

 tions of the margins blackish. 



Distribution.- — The present species is apparently limited in dis- 

 tribution to southern California and southern Nevada. In Cali- 

 fornia it occurs from as far north and west as the country between 

 San Luis Obispo and San Simeon Bay, in San Luis Obispo County, 

 south at least to the western slopes of the San Jacinto Mountains 

 in Riverside County. The record from Tighes is probably even 

 more southern than that from the San Jacinto range, as we 



^5 The whitish areas in the males are more yellowish than in carita, but 

 we believe this is due to the fact that none of the material of that sex of hrev- 

 icnuda has been stuffed and the j-ellowish tone is in consequence due to 

 discoloration. 



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