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REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



Ground color variable, that of the male being usually grayish or 

 fuscous, that of the female rusty brown or pale buff; the face grayish 

 or yellowish. Antenna3 brownish or grayish at base, fuscous at apex. 

 Tcgmina sprinkled throughout with minute blackish spots. In the 

 males these spots arc aggregated into three' more or less distinct dark 

 cross bars; in the female only faint traces of these bars are visible. 

 Inner wings light greenish yellow at the base, with a broad median 

 curved band of blackish or piceous which stops a little short of the 

 anal angle; from this band near the front margin a black bar reaches 



Fig. 58. Spharayviuijn OuUi Scuilder. Mule. 

 (After Lugger.) 



back half way through the yellow. Apical third of wing transparent 

 smoky, the extreme tip in the male being often of the same hue as 

 the median band. Hind femora with alternating bars of black and 

 yellow, three each, on the inner face; the outer face dull yellowish 

 or grayish brown with three or four oblique indistinct dark brown 

 bands. 



The median carina of pronotum in the male is higher than in the 

 female, that portion on the metazona being more elevated in front 

 than behind. Other structural characters are given under the generic 

 heading. 



Measurements: Length of body, male, 25 mm., female, 33 mm.; 

 of antennae, male, 14 mm., female, 16 mm.; of pronotum, male, 7 

 mm., female, 9 mm.; of tegmina, male, 27 mm., female, 32 mm.; of 

 hind femora, male, 16 mm., female, 19 mm. 



