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Several distinct color phases are developed. Frequent indi- 

 viduals of Ijoth sexes are brown, this rarely dark in shade, the 

 dorsal surface usually slightly paler. The majority of the 

 males, however, are brown, with face, occiput, disk of pronotum, 

 dorsal surface of tegmina and cephalic and median femora bright 

 green. Frequent females are almost entirely green, often with 

 a slender post-ocular streak of brown running along the lateral 

 carinae of the pronotum and breaking into a series of dots on 

 the tegmina. A few females are green, with dorsal surface 

 buffy brown, this spreading distad on the tegmina to include 

 all of their distal portion. The caudal tibiae are buffy brown, 

 rarely green proximad in individuals showing that color strongly 

 elsewhere. 



The distribution of brevicornis in North America is now known 

 to extend northward on the Atlantic Coast to New York City 

 and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in Ohio and Indiana reaching 

 the Great Lakes. In Canada it has been found at but one 

 locality, Point Pelee, Ontario. The known western limits are 

 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; Wolf Lake, Illinois;^ central Arkansas, 

 and on the Gulf Coast of Texas a.s far inland as Houston, Burnet 

 County, and San Antonio. Its range southward extends over 

 much of continental America to Paraguay and Argentina. 



^ We can not give Bruner's record of "eastern Nebraska" recognition. 

 No material of the species is in that author's collection from that state and 

 his Nebraska list has been found to contain names of several other species 

 which do not occur in Nebraska. 



TRANS. AM. EXT. SOC, XLVIII. 



