MORGAN HEBARD 155 



Thus in every species, but particularly in those normally showing 

 weak or very delicate markings, individuals of the maximum 

 recessive condition will show faintly, or wholly lack, features 

 usually recognizable with the greatest ease and which, when 

 present, are frequently of real diagnostic value. Similarly, in 

 the maximum of intensification, the darker and increased size 

 of the markings often give such examples an extraordinary ap- 

 pearance. A goodly number of synonymic names are based 

 upon just such misconceptions of the intra-specific range of 

 coloration, but such mistakes need not occur in future and many 

 characters of coloration and particularly of color pattern, will be 

 found distinctly useful if the conditions discussed above are 

 taken into consideration. 

 A. Tegmina without distinct dots. 



B. Various distinctive features of color pattern or coloration present, ven- 

 tral surface of abdomen frequent I3' variously maculate. 

 C. Tegmina distinctively marked. 



D. Tegmina with heavy elongate suffused band of mummy brown from 

 base of discoidal vein to about two-thirds the distance to its apex. 

 Pronotum with heavy paired blackish brown bands expanding and 

 diverging shghtly caudad, running from cephaUc margin to caudal 

 margin of pronotum through lateral borders of disk. Head with normal 

 markings.!" rteticulosa (Walker) 



DD. Tegmina with two small elongate maculations of bister, one at 

 base of anal vein and one slightlj- distad of this point on discoidal vein. 

 Pronotal markings of normal type, disk finely pictured. Head with 

 distinctive markings. insularis (Walker) 



CC. Tegmina immaculate, or weakh- marked (only in intensive phases 

 of punctulata). 



D. General color of disk of pronotum buffy, very finely pictured, this 

 picturing normally strongly defined. 



E. Head with markings variable (see pages 161 and 167), transverse 

 bands when present on face always concave. 



F. Buffy general coloration always tinged to varying degrees with 

 olivaceous. punctulata (Beauvois) 



FF. Buffy general coloration always linged to varying degrees 

 with cinnamon. lutea lutea (Saussure and Zehntner) 



lutea minima new subspecies 



^° We term the character of cephalic markings found in this species normal, 

 as this condition is found in reiiculosa,fossicau(i(i and aediculata, in the intensive 

 condition of punctulata and weakly suggested in cuprea. A broad band ventrad 

 between the eyes, a narrower concave band between the ocellar spots and 

 below on the face two still narrower, sometimes mesally interrupted, concave 

 bands. 



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