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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 median black 
band. Vertex with a median light line arising from a transverse 
spot at base, forking just before the middle the iwo 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 
agaiost 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 defi- 
nite markings, often a creamy band extends back from either eye 
and joins a baud around the posterior margin. Scutellnm, with the 
median half white, interrupted in the middle, a pair of round black 
dots in the anterior quadrangular part, a pair of white dashes along 
the middle of the lateral margins. Elytra, reddish, the costal and 
sutural margins, a line on either side the claval suture and a line 
between the claval nervures pale creamy, sometimes some irregu- 
lar mottlings on the disc of the coriurn. 
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, tbe 
dark marking 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 
