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band of white; from this on either side there is a band around the 

 margin of the vertex to the eye, and usually a band runs down the 

 middle of the front. Front irregularly mottled with black and 

 white. Lorae and genae pale, clypeus white, with a medij^n black 

 band. Vert-x with a median light line arising from a transverse 

 spot at base, forking just before the middle the two forks angularly 

 divergent, and again angularly recurved, forming a T, with the top 

 piece broken upward to form nearly a right angle above; a band 

 against either eye, from the anterior end of which a crescent 

 extends in, nearly to the top of the T, an oblique line running in 

 from behind either eye, sometimes interrupted to form a spot just 

 inside either ocellus, white. Pronotum, reddish, with irregular 

 creamy markings, usually the anterior margin is lighter, with dnh- 

 nite markings, often a creamy band extends back from either eye 

 and joins a band around the posterior margin. Scutellum, with the 

 median half white, interrupted in the middle, a pairof round black 

 dots in the anterior quadrangular part, a pair of white dashes along 

 the mi'idle of the lateral margins. Elytra, reddish, the C03tal and 

 sutural margin?, a line on either side the claval suture and a line 

 between the claval nervures pale creamy, sometimes some irregu- 

 lar mottliugs on the disc of the corium. 



Slaty form — Size and structure of the preceding form. Color 

 slaty green, varying to fuscous, markings as in the preceding 

 species, except that the light markings of the vertex are usually 

 reduced in size. Face in the female often nearly all light, except 

 for the black spots on the clypeus and apex of head; in the male, 

 often black, with small light spots. Pronotum with a p ile area 

 behind each eye, in the middle of which there is a black spot, the 

 dark mai king along the anterior margin sometimes forming defi- 

 nite spots. Light stripes on elytra, often broad, especially the pair 

 next the claval suture. Light markings, often with a tinge of blue. 



^ Var. dolobrata NOV. VAR. , Plate III, Fig. 2. 



Somewhat smaller than the preceding. Shining black, a few of 

 the white markings of the typical form persisting, as follows: the 

 margins of the clypeus, the genae, a line below the margin of the 

 pronotum, the circle around the apex of head, a line against the eye, 

 and the marking of the scutellum. Often there is part of a median 

 line on vertex, and a pair of slender lines running from the inner 

 corner of the eye back across the pronotum to the light margined 

 claval suture. 



^ Var. uhleri nov. var., Plate III, Fig. 3. 



Slightly stouter than typical hieroglyphica, elytra often consid- 

 erably longer; grayish green, with light blue-green mottlings; black 

 markings on vertex and scutellum much reduced in size and intens- 

 ity, remaining only as narrow lines margining the original white 

 pattern, giving quite a strikingly different appearance to the vertex. 

 The whole central area is now light from the apical circle back, a 

 pair of approximate lines on the basal half and a heavier pair 

 between them and the ocelli converging before the middle. The 



