SUBFAMILY III. LOCUSTIX.K. 



353 



Fig. 122. 



P. a. 

 fuscous 

 (After R. & H.) 



queuting especially the areas of chain-fern, Woodivardia vir- 

 gin-tea L." 



156a. PAROXYA ATLANTICA PAROXYOIDES (Scudder), 1897b, 28. 



A rather robust form of medium size, separated from typical atlantica 

 mainly by the characters given in the key. Form somewhat heavier. Teg- 

 mina shorter, those of female rarely reaching base of ovipositor, more 

 often feebly maculate with small fuscous spots along the discoidal area. 

 Hind femora slightly more robust. Hind tibiae more distinctly glaucous 

 or bluish-green, with a pale subapical annulus. Cerci of male longer, 

 more slender, their apical thirds roundly spatulate. Otherwise as in typi- 

 cal atlantica. Length of body, $, 18.120, 9, 2728; of antennae, $ and 



$, 1011; of tegrnina, $, 1315, $, 1718; 

 of hind femora, $, 11.312, $, 14.515 mm. 



In early March I have found this 

 southern race of P. atlantica quite fre- 

 quent at Long Key and Key West, Fla., 

 among the low shrubs and grasses which 

 cover sparsely the broken fragments of 

 Hind femur of coquina rock along the shores of the is- 

 lands. It was described by Scudder 



3. ter . . (1S9 ^ 33^ under the name Qf MeUn . 



oplus paroxyoides, his types being from Key West and Tallahas- 

 see. R. & H. (1912) first placed it as a race of atlantica, their 

 specimens being from several of the southern keys and taken in 

 the heavy jungle-like tangled growth, as well as among the low 

 vegetation of the bare coquina rocks. In their opinion it is con- 

 fined to the keys of South Florida, but a male at hand was taken 

 at Ft. Myers, March 12. 



157. PAROXYA CLAVULIGER (Serville), 1839, 676. Olive-green Swamp 



Locust. 



Size large for the genus, the males usually much the more slender 

 Under surface, abdomen and femora olivaceous-green; occiput, disk of 

 pronotum and tegmina uniform pale to dark brown. Face, lower sides of 

 pronotum and pleura creamy-white, sometimes dull yellow in female. The 

 usual shining black bar extends back from eyes to metazona, there merging 

 into the brown. Antennae fuscous-brown, the front margins of segments 

 paler. Hind femora with outer face often infuscate, their knees and the 

 claws and arolia of tarsi black. Hind tibiae bluish-green with black 

 spines. Vertex and frontal costa much as in atlantica, the foveolae of the 

 former more distinct. Pronotum with hind margin obtuse, often broadly 

 rounded, and median carina sometimes feebly cut by all three sulci. Su- 

 pra-anal plate of male long, triangular with a broad median rounded ridge 

 extending two-thirds its length, on the summit of which, in the basal half 

 of the plate, is a narrow, deep sulcus, this after interruption is again visi- 

 ble along the apical fourth ; furcula as described in key. Cerci long. 



