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Elytra without the red stripes, and with but two or three black 
spots at tip. Sometimes the spots next the eye in front are want- 
ing, and there are two or three fuscous arcs on the upper part of 
front, which leads to the next variety. 
Specimens of this variety are at hand from Texas and 
Mexico. It was described from South America. 
Yar cythura, Bak. PI. VI, Fig. 5. 
Tettigonia cythura , Baker. Psyche VIII, p. 268, 1898. 
Vertex slightly shorter than in the preceding variety. Slightly 
smaller. 
Color; vertex and anterior <part of pronotum pale yellow, the 
marginal band reduced to a spot at apex and a smaller one each 
side one-third the distance to the eyes, the lines inside the margin 
and dashes against the eye as in the typical form, median lines a 
little broader and shorter, often about live spots along the front 
margin of pronotum. Elytra bright green, red bands obsolete, blue 
ones pale, black spots at apex small or wanting, nervures slightly 
fuscous. 
Specimens are at hand from California, and Lower Cali- 
fornia and Mexico, and Baker reports it from Arizona. 
This variety represents the same change in form and color 
for this species that is shown in the Mexican varieties of 
occatoria, and the same broadening and shortening of the 
vertex that is seen in the Mexican forms of bifida and tri - 
punctata and the confluens form of hieroglyphica . Speci- 
mens of this form labeled Tettigonia cythura, Uhl., in 
Baker’s handwriting are in the National Museum collec- 
tion. 
Genus Draeculacephala nov. gen. 
Similar to Diedrccebhcila the vertex usually longer and more 
acutely angled. Face, as seen from side, usually straight, or slightly 
concave to the middle of clypeus, where it is broken backwards. 
Disc of clypeus quite gibbous. Pronotum with the lateral margins 
parallel, narrower than or only equaling the eye. Elytra long, nar- 
rowing apicallv greenish, the nervures raised distinct, the apical 
and the anteapical cells irregularly reticulate veined. Anterior 
tibiae slender, round. Type of the genus D mollipes , Say. 
This is quite distinctively a temperate region group, 
only a few of the forms extending very far south- 
ward. The reticulate venation, while only a trivial char- 
acter, will at once distinguish the typical forms. The 
