876 N. C. AGR. EXP. STA. BUL. 239 
VII strongly produced and rounded apically; ovipositor with slanting primary 
teeth on dorsal margin of second valvulae, each with minute secondary teeth, 
primaries progressively more closely spaced apically, apex narrowly rounded 
and with anteapical posterodorsal and posteroventral minute denticles; 
pygofer with setae arranged irregularly from apex anteroventrally parallel to 
posteroventral margin. 
Head in dorsal view with anterior margin narrowly black, disk greenish- 
yellow; pronotum with broad anterior marginal stripe concolorous with disk 
of crown, remainder dark green, occasionally with an orange spot on each 
side of anterior pronotal band and/or on green portion; scutellum dull 
orange, unmarked; forewing with a costal marginal band concolorous with 
crown and anterior band on pronotum, remainder dark green and concolor- 
ous with major portion of pronotum, with at least a dull orange claval stripe 
parallel to claval suture and reaching commissural margin apically, and at 
most a second narrower orange stripe parallel to brachial cell and extending 
through inner anteapical and second apical cells to wing apex, appendix, in- 
ner apical cell and an apical spot in apical cells 2, 3, and 4, smoky; face with 
dorsal margin black, with a black line bordering each pronotal dorsopleural 
carina ventrally, remainder of face, thoracic pleura, venter, and legs pale 
yellow. The outermost orange stripe of the forewing may be reduced basally 
to a variable degree. 

FIGURE 711.—Graphocephala marathonensis (Olsen) (from specimen from Mex- 
ico): p, Aedeagus and parphyses, from lateral view. 
