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it; dorsum often with a median longitudinal pale green line bounded by 

 rich darker bands of scales that reach to edge, the sides paler. 



Elytra elongate-oval, at base slightly rounded, sides nearly parallel, 

 humeri prominent and usually darker; striae distinctly punctate; inter- 

 spaces somewhat elevated posteriorly; scales may be uniformly of one 

 color, or the alternate interspaces with scales of different shades of the 

 same color or of different colors, or the elytra spotted with more or less 

 indistinct gray or brown maculae on a green or gray-brown background, 

 especially along the suture; edges often with pale or reddish-brown 

 scales on the last or last two interspaces, at the apex this coloration 

 extends forward for some distance on each side of the suture; hairs or 

 bristles white or black, varying in length, at base, but uniformly longer 

 behind and usually more erect. There appears to be a tendency in 

 this as in other species having both black and white hairs to have the 

 colors alternating on the interspaces but this is not a fixed rule. Some 

 specimens have a blue green longitudinal stripe on the seventh and 

 eighth, or seventh to ninth interspaces. 



Venter on the thoracic portions coarsely punctured, abdominal 

 segments with the punctures finer; intercoxal process of first abdominal 

 segment nearly triangular; mesosternal process angularly elevated 

 between the middle coxa 1 , narrowly triangular, never linear or parallel 

 sided, last abdominal segment longer than two previous ones, in the male 

 with an impression on the disk. 



Legs varying in color, even in matured specimens from red or reddish 

 brown to very dark red or more rarely black; clothed with fine pale or 

 silvery hairs sparsely set, never with scales, except on coxa?; femora 

 stout, anterior tibia- of male strongly curved with the apical process 

 distinct, claws and upper side of tarsal joints often darker, pads of tarsal 

 joints silvery-white. 



Egg: Ovoid pale-greenish, surface distinctly sculptured, not as 

 1 ixagonal in specimens examined as in Hyp. punctata eggs. The eggs 

 darken as incubation progresses and become almost jet black, and 

 shining. "Length. 0.55 mm. to 0.63 nun.; width, ().:'>."> nun. to 0.36 mm." 

 according to Hyslop and Webster in Bui. 85, 1909. I have not had 

 enough specimens to care to furnish data as to length at the presenl 

 time, since mine seems to vary more than that given above. 



Larva: early stages: "The newly hatched larva is 1.25 mm. in 

 length and 0.2.3 mm. broad. Color white, with pinkish tinge, best seen 

 on ventral surface. Head large with the cervical shield pale brown, the 

 latter divided by a broad median white line, the inverted V-shaped 

 mark on head also white; body with sparsely placed setae longer and more 

 conspicuous on the anal segments. In a short time the pink tinge 

 disappears, the head becomes black, and the inverted V-shaped line 

 extends across the now black thoracic shield, and along the entire 

 length of the body it is produced in a very delicate, pale median dorsal 

 line. (Described by Wildermuth and Webster)." From Bui. 85, 

 Webster, L909. 



Later stages: "The full grown larva. (Plate XXIY. figs. 26,28, 31 ). 

 The full grown larva is of a greenish straw color. The inverted white 



