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Indiana, has some gray on either side of 9 and 10; other males 
from Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Maine have the sides of 1 
pale, and a more or less distinct lateral spot on 2. 
Females from the same localities show fewer differences. 
Unless obscured, there is present a longitudinal, dorsal pale 
area, adjoining or near the black dorsal carina; a similar pale 
area occupies the mesepimeron in all but its most anterior and 
dorsal portions; and a similar large pale area occupies the mete- 
pimeron, excepting only a narrow border ; along the second lat- 
eral suture on the metepisternum a narrow area of the same 
kind is less definitely developed. These pale areas give the 
impression of a thin coating of paraffin over the general body 
color. They seem to depend largely on post-mortem changes, 
and asymmetrical specimens are not rare. One female from 
Indiana is remarkable; the pale areas on the thorax are of 
usual size and definiteness, but instead of being surrounded by 
the usual light brown or pearly gray, the pale areas lie in a 
field of dark brown or nearly black; the result is a thoracic 
color pattern not at all suggestive of other individuals of either 
sex in which, if any dark color appears, it is in the usual pale 
areas of the normal females; in this case the pale areas remain 
pale, but the adjoining areas are dark. Two other Indiana 
specimens suggest this female. In two other Indiana females 
the thorax is light brown with green dorsal thoracic stripes of 
indefinite pattern, suggesting Gynacantha. 
To describe the dorsum of the abdomen of moesta as pale 
colored is only partially correct. About segment 6 the lateral 
apical and basal black fail to connect in a continuous line as 
they do on the preceding segments, and the black decreases 
posteriorly and disappears before 9. If segment 3 or 4 be 
examined carefully it will be apparent that the dorsum of each 
segment above the lateral black streak is darker colored than 
the sides below the streak, and that the definition of the black 
and paler is obscure on the dorsal side of the streak; there is 
no well-defined longitudinal dorsal paie area, and the dorsum 
color (reddish brown) is a very different color from the pale 
basal rings of obscure bluish. 
