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B. Head and pronotum with definite longitudinal stripes. 
occatoria Say. 
BB. Head and pronotum with transverse bands parallel 
with margin, or none. 
C. The outer branch of the first sector forking to 
form an anteapical cell. Pronotum withtransverse 
bands parallel to the margins. 
D. Green, vertex blunt, alternate transverse 
bands of light and dark on pronotum and 
vertex. 
E. Elytra green, the nervures black. 
Length, 5.5 — 6 mm .bifida Say. 
EE. Elytra green, the nervures pale or 
obscure, three white spots before the 
the apex. Length, 4.5 — 5 mm., much 
narrower than abo ve.geometrica Sign. 
DD. White, vertex longer, with three black 
spots. Elytra white, the nervures brown. 
tripunctata Fitch. 
CC. The outer branch of the first sector, with its outer 
fork running to the margin. Pronotum, without 
marginal bands. Form, short and stout 
hartii 
Tettigonia hieroglyphica Say. Plate III. 
Tettigonia hieroglyphica Say. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. VI. p. 313, 1831. 
Rather stout; vertex bluntly conical. General color, reddish or 
greenish on pronotum and elytra usually mottled, costa and claval 
suture often broadly light, the markings on vertex in a complex pat- 
tern. The broad median band of scutellum light. A black spot on 
apex of vertex. Face, mottled; sometimes the whole insect is black. 
Length, 6 — 7 mm.; width, 1.5 mm. 
Vertex, slightly conical, bluntly right-angled, the lateral margin 
in advance of the margin of the eye; over three-fourths the length 
of the pronotum not quite three-fourths its basal width. Face, as 
seen from side, rounding back. Elytra, rather broad and compact; 
five apical and three anteapical cells. 
Genitalia; female segment two and one-half times as long as the 
penultimate, slightly narrowing posteriorly; posterior margin tri- 
angularly produced, the apex produced and rounding, who e seg- 
ment thin and membranous, strongly curved around the pygofers. 
Male plates two and one-half times as long as the ultimate seg- 
ment, long-triangular, their apices acute, margins fringed with soft 
hairs. 
The following varieties intergrade, but most of the speci- 
mens will readily fall into one of the following forms: 
Var. hieroglyphica, Say. Plate III, Fig. x. 
Red form — Structure as above. Color, a round black spot 
on the apex of vertex and face surrounded by a broad circular 
