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are dark yellow. The abdomen may be colorless, except for the black, 

 food-packed intestine, but often is pale gray-green or grayish yellow. 

 Cercopods are colorless, to yellow, orange-yellow, or pinkish. 



Female: The antenniile is colorless to pale yellow or salmon-pink. 

 The antenna is yellow with a greenish wash, or green with a yellow 

 tip. The top of the head is faint blue-green, but often the entire head 

 appears yellow from the yellow digestive caeca. The "horns" on the 

 side of the head may be 3^ellow, blue, or blue-gray. The corneal part 

 of the eye is black. The labrum is greenish, spotted with blue, and 

 may contain large, brownish, internal cells visible through the integu- 

 ment. The dorsal side of the thorax may be colorless, whitish, or faint 

 green; the dorsolateral lobes colorless to faint yellow. The anterior 

 third of the mtestine, as seen through the body wall, is yellow to pink; 

 the posterior two-thu'ds is black with contained food residues. The 

 lateral sides of the thorax, above the appendages, are blue; the blue 

 extends fiu*ther dorsallv in the last four segments. The blue color is 



Figure 8: Right fifth thoracic appendage of a female, anterior aspect (ex., exopodite). 

 (X 18.) Note: No attempt has been made to represent the setules of the plumose setae 

 which fringe the thoracic appendages. On the ventral border of the endopodite the 

 plumose setae gradually become thicker and assume the character of spines, with spinules 

 replacing the setules. 



