146 FAMILY IV. FI-IASMIDJE. THE WALKING-STICKS. 



as long as broad, marked lengthwise and crosswise by a feeble median im- 

 pressed line, and bearing each side near the front angle a circular pore, 

 connected with a hidden gland. Metanotum usually furnished with several 

 rounded black granules along the sides of its front half. Seventh seg- 

 ment of female bearing beneath an elongate scoop-shaped process which 

 conceals the genital organs; male with a similar shorter triangular pro 

 cess. Cerci of male deflexed strongly downward; of female projected 

 horizontally backward and extending slightly beyond the apex of ninth 

 segment Length of body, $, 39 47, 9, 01 77; of head, $. ?,~> 4, 9, 

 6; of pronotum, $, 3.5 4, 9, 66.5; of mesonotum, $, 1 9, 9, 12 1C; 

 of metanotum, $, 67.5, 9, 1012; of hind femora, $, 9.510. 9, 14- 

 17.5 mm. 



Gainesville, Sanford, Dunediu, Cape Sable and Key West, Fla., 

 Nov. 4 March 29 (W. S. B.) ; several pairs taken, usually in cop- 

 ulation, the female stretched straight out along the stems of 

 weeds or coarse grasses. At Dunedin one pair was taken Decem- 

 ber 12 on Hog Island, three miles across from the mainland. Re- 

 corded from numerous localities between Jacksonville and Pensa- 

 cola on the north and Miami and Key West. It occurs more 

 abundantly in moist situations, often beneath the loose bark of 

 pine logs and stumps or betAveen or beneath boards. From De- 

 cember to April about Dunedin, the brownish-gray nymphs are 

 frequently swept from dwarf huckleberry and other undergrowth 

 in open pine woods. 



Davis (1914) states that: "This fat and lubberly insect, 

 which is always ready to squirt a charge of acrid, condeused-milk- 

 like fluid at the collector, was in evidence at all the places visited. 

 While it has been my experience in various parts of Florida to 

 find more nymphs of this species in the spring, yet adults may 

 be found at any season, and each female usually has attached to 

 herself one of the diminutive males. At night the insects become 

 much more active." 



This stout-bodied walking-stick, often called the "musk-mare," 

 is found only in the southern states, ranging from South Carolina 

 through Georgia and Florida, and west at least to Agricultural 

 College, Miss.. Iwo specimens from that place having been given 

 me by the late Dr. L. M. Underwood. 



63. ANISOMOBPHA FERBUGINEA (Beauvois), 1805, 167. Lesser Striped 

 Walking-stick. 



Fuscous or ferruginous, with inconspicuous, narrow, dusky, dorsal and 

 lateral stripes; these in the female less distinct, often obsolete on a portion 

 of the abdomen; antenna? dull reddish-brown; under side of body dull clay 



