346 FAMILY VI. ACRIDIDJE. THE LOCUSTS. 



lique hind margin of eye and backward along the upper edge of the other- 

 wise black tegrnina. Outer face of hind femora green, male, or brown, 

 more or less infuscate, female, inner and lower faces dull yellow; hind 

 tibiae dull bluish-green, the spines tipped with black. Abdomen of male 

 usually with a dorsal median yellowish stripe, banded below each side with 

 a blackish-fuscous one; under surface, fore and middle femora and all the 

 tarsi, dull yellow. Vertex of male with margins raised and meeting in a 

 point, thus forming a triangular concavity between the eyes, in front of 

 which it is extremely narrowed; of female with disk almost flat, the mar- 

 gin scarcely elevated, the apex more than twice as wide as in the male. 

 Furcula short but distinct, widely separated, (not subattingent as stated 

 by Scudder) cylindrical, lying on the sides of the basal median ridges. 

 Cerci and other structural characters as described above and in key. 

 Length of body, $ , 1621, $ , 22 28 ; of antennae, $ and $ , 7 8 ; of teg- 

 mina, $ , 3, 9,4; of hind femora, $ , 10, $ , 11 12 mm. 



Ormond, Sanford, Hastings, Lakeland and Uiinedin, Fla.. 

 August March (W. #. /?.). My first specimens of this peculiar 

 and easily identified species were taken at Ormond, March 7, 

 1899, and were noted (1902, 34) as follows: "On a patch of green 

 weeds in an old orange orchard T found a pair of wingless, bright 

 green locusts, the teguiina being represented only by narrow, ob- 

 long, whitish-yellow scales. They leap clumsily when disturbed. 

 On a dead clump of grass in a neighboring field I took a brown 

 female of the same species, so that it, like many other Acridians, 

 seeks a place of hiding with which it agrees in color. There, as 

 long as motionless, it is quite secure from the eyes of those birds 

 and reptiles which are ever on the search for a juicy locust." 

 About Dunedin A. spliomrioides is frequent in both nymph and 

 adult stages throughout the fall and winter months, occurring 

 especially on wire-grass, dwarf huckleberry bushes and other low 

 vegetation along the pathways, roadways, ditches and streams of 

 open pine woods. It occurs on Hog Island, where the males are 

 intermediate between the typical form and the race clam. When 

 flushed the males are much the more active, often leaping several 

 feet and alighting on some supporting stem or shrub, a foot or 

 more above the ground, where they can watch to better advantage 

 the approaching intruder, while the heavier bodied females usually 

 attempt to burrow after a short leap or two. Scudder's types 

 were from Ft. Reed and Jacksonville, and it has been recorded 

 many times from all parts of the State east of DeFuniak Springs, 

 the form taken south of Lakeland and Tampa being mostly of the 

 race clara. 



The known range of A. xplicnarioides is confined to Florida 

 and the southern third of Georgia. The A. rufoi'ittata of Scud- 

 der (1877a, 85) has been shown by Davis (1915, 98) to have been 



