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dwarf oak in a wide sand scrub area, the other from dwarf oaks, 

 bay cedar and other bushes more than a mile distant in the sand 

 scrub. At Ocala the four specimens were secured in sandy flat- 

 woods by beating' the undergrowth, which was composed of a legu- 

 minous plant and bunch grass. The coloration and color pattern 

 of this insect shows no important differences from that of gcin- 

 inh-ula. It is possible that it may eventually prove to be a geo- 

 graphical race of that species, but we have no evidence of this as 

 yet." (Hebard.) 



A study of the type series at Philadelphia leads me to believe 

 this a disinct and valid species. 



147. HESPEBOTETTIX SPECIOSUS (Scudder), 1872, 250. 



Size large and form robust for the genus. Grass green, fading to yel- 

 lowish-green in dried specimens, the tegmina and hind tibiae alone re- 

 taining the original hue; median carina of pronotum and outer upper face 

 and ring near knees of hind femora usually purplish- or pinkish-red; an- 

 tennas pale red, dusky toward tip; abdomen and inner surface of hind fe- 

 mora pale yellow ; hind tibiae green, the spines paler tipped with black. 

 Vertex and occiput more or less rugulose; fastigium feebly concave in 

 front of eyes, the concavity almost continuous with sulcus of frontal costa, 

 male, separated by a rounded convexity of the costa, female. Frontal 

 costa wider than in preceding species, deeply sulcate below the antennae, 

 female, throughout, male. Pronotum with median carina low; prozona 

 one-fourth longer than metazona, female, one-half longer, male; hind mar- 

 gin broadly obtuse-angulate. Tegmina covering two-thirds to three- 

 fourths of abdomen. Supra-anal plate elongate, triangular, its sides low, 

 feebly sinuate; its basal half with a rather deep median sulcus between 

 two converging ridges which diverge, usually without merging, beyond the 

 middle, thus forming another sulcus on apical third; furcula very short, 



triangular lobes. Cerci as long as 

 supra-anal plate, their basal halves 

 broad, strongly tapering, apical 

 ones slender, incurved. Apical tu- 

 bercle of subgenital plate broad, 

 prominent, conical, its apex trun- 

 cate or feebly bifid. Length of 

 body, $, 2224, 9, 31 34; of an- 

 tenna 3 , $, 10, 9, 11.5; of pronotum, 

 $, 66.5, 9, 8 9; of tegmina, $, 



Fig. 120. 

 Brunei'. ) 



Female, natural size. (After 

 913, 9, 1618.5; of hind femora, $, 1414.5, 9, 1819 mm. (Fig.120.) 



Sylvia, Kan.; Caddo and Foss, Okla. July IT Aug. 8 (Davis). 

 A species of western and southwestern range, known east of the 

 Mississippi only from the records of Hart (1007, 233) who reports 

 it as occurring in August and September, with Canipylacantha 

 olivacea Scudd. on the grassy dunes near Havana and on the dry 

 soils of southern Illinois. It ranges from southern Illinois west 



