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often yellow, but with scattered punctations of green. There is a 

 large bluish spot on the front on each side of the ocellus. The peduncle 

 of the eye is yellow, the corneal portion black. The dorsal side of the 

 thorax is grayish, grayish green, or sometimes faint orange, or colorless. 

 The anterior thu'd of the intestine, as seen through the body wall, is 

 yellow; the posterior two-thirds is black from accumulated food 

 residues. 



Figure 7: Right fifth thoracic appendage of a male, anterior aspect (br.l., branchial lamina; 

 br.s., branchial sac; ent., endites; end., endopodite). (X 18.) See note, figure 8. 



The axis or corm of the appendages is pale green, blue-green, or 

 orange-yellow, and contains numerous large cells with colorless, 

 yellow, or orange oil globules. These cells range upward on the sides 

 of the thorax between the appendicular muscles, thus tinting the lower 

 half of the thorax yellowish. The branchial lamina and gill arc color- 

 less; the exopodite and endopodite nearly colorless to pale green or 

 dark yellow; the endites pale green bordered with yellow. 



The dorsal and lateral sides of the genital segments are like adjacent 

 parts of the abdomen and are nearly colorless; the ventral sides are 

 colorless or yellow. The spur, and border of the penis anterior to it, 



