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male with a slender sharp tooth at base. (Fig. 56, a.) 



55. TENUESCENS. 



bb. Seventh, eighth and ninth abdominal segments of male together 

 no longer than the sixth; ninth segment but slightly longer 

 than wide, enlarged at apex, male, equal in length to prothorax, 

 female; cerci of male with a swollen, blunt, oblique basal tooth. 



(Fig. 56, ft.) 56,. 15RACHYPYGA. 



a. Middle femora of male distinctly thicker than the hind ones; head 

 shorter, stouter, about twice as long as broad; cerci with a blunt 

 tooth at base. (Fig. 54, c.) 57. BLATCHLEYI. 



55. MANOMERA TENUESCENS (Scudder), 1900, 95. Slender-bodied Walking- 

 stick. 



Male very slender, elongate; female much stouter and longer. Male 

 brown, female green above, both brownish-yellow beneath; sides of male 

 usually with a fuscous stripe, bordered below with yellow, the legs in part 

 greenish. Head slender, one-third longer than pronotum. Male with 

 seventh and ninth abdominal segments subequal in length, each slightly 

 longer than the eighth and about one-half as long as sixth ; subgenital 

 operculum slender, strongly spatulate, reaching the tip of the eighth seg- 

 ment. Female with ninth segment slightly longer than seventh, its apex 

 truncate; cerci very slender, strongly tapering, as long as the ninth seg- 

 ment, their margins minutely serrate- Length of body, $ , 63 67, 9 , 85 

 110; of head, $, 3.23.5, 9, 3.55.5; of mesothorax, $, 1C 17, 9, 1924; 

 of metathorax, $, 1213, 9, 14.519.5; of hind femora, $, 1820, 9, 

 2426 mm. 



A Southern species whose known range is from Selma and 

 Winter Park, North Carolina to Southern Florida. Numerous 

 nymphs have been taken about Duuedin in February and March. 

 They are pale grass-green and were swept from huckleberry and 

 other low shrubs in open pine woods. Scudder's types were from 

 Cedar Keys and Capron, Fla., and it has been recorded from 

 numerous localities from Jacksonville and Live Oak in the north, 

 to Homestead and Punta Gorda in the south. Adults are found 

 from April to November on wire grass, saw palmetto and other 

 undergrowth in open pine woods, rarely on vegetation in low, 

 dam]) places. M<innnn-r<i orllioHti/lns Caudell (101.S, G12) has 

 been shown by H. & H. (lilK!, 125) to be a synonym of If. tciinc- 

 sccns, having been based on a male in the instar preceding ma- 

 turity, the cerci of the male in the nymph stages being straight, 

 pilose and delicate in structure. 



56. MAXOMERA BRACHYPYGA Rehn & Hebard, 1914c, 384. Short-rumped 

 Walking-stick. 



Very similar to M. tcnuescens agreeing in general form, color and 

 structure, but differing in the much shorter seventh, eighth and ninth 



