SUBFAMILY II. rSEUDOPHYLLINvE. 501 



twice as long as wide, its apex narrowly rounded ; cerci subcylin- 

 drieal, tapering, the tips slightly forked. A very distinct genus, 

 as shown by the characters given in key and above. Only one 

 species is so far known. 



227. LEA FLOBIDENSIS (Beutenmiiller), 1903, 637. Florida Katydid. 



Green or greenish-yellow fading to dull yellow, the tympanum of male 

 brown. Antennae twice as long as body. Pronotum with two transverse sulci 

 feebly impressed, front margin broadly convex, hind one subtruncate or 

 very broadly rounded, lateral carinae rounded and vague on prozona, more 

 distinct on metazona; lower front angle of lateral lobes narrowly rounded. 

 Other structural characters as given above. Length of body, $ , 32 43, 

 $, 35 39; of pronotum, $, 6.58, $, 7.28.5; of tegmina, $, 3237, 

 $, 3435; of hind femora, $, 23 28, $, 2627; of subgenital plate, <j , 

 12; of ovipositor, 14 mm. Width of tegmina, $, 13 15, $, 15 18 mm. 



LaGrange, Fla., June; Pablo Beach, Fla., Aug. 13 (Davis). 

 Known only from Florida, and so far found only in a narrow strip 

 along the east coast from Pablo Beach to Miami. The type of 

 Beutenmiiller was from near Grant, and he says that it lives in 

 the tops of live-oak trees, the note of the male, being a continuous 

 "kerr-lcerr-Jcerr-Jcerr" with about one second interval of rest. 

 R. & H. (1907, 302) record the taking in August of numerous spe- 

 cimens at Pablo Beach, where it was apparently abundant "in 

 bushes about eight to ten feet high growing on the land face of the 

 dunes. The note is much lower than in P. caniellifolia, decidedly 

 weaker, and consisting of single notes separated by regular in- 

 tervals." 



Davis (1914, 198) records L. floridcnsis from LaGrange, Sept. 

 10 12. and says : "We sometimes heard among the oaks and cab- 

 bage palms, but not in the pine woods, a low cliluck, cliluck, evi- 

 dently the call of some large insect, though its carrying pow r er was 

 poor and one had to be quite near in order to hear it. There were 

 several of the insects about, and one evening when the moon was 

 shining brightly and with the aid of a lantern, one was discovered 

 among the leaves of a cabbage palm. Enough was seen to identify 

 it with C i/ r to pit i/U us fl<>i-i<lcn*is and the next day I knocked a fe- 

 male of the same species from a cabbage palm into my umbrella. 

 A nymph was found at night hanging from moss on a low palm- 

 etto, drying itself, having just shed its skin. This nymph was 

 brownish in color, but the adult male and female were all green. 

 Near Miami, ISO miles to the south of LaGrange, one of these 

 insects was heard stridulating every evening in the latter part of 

 September. It lived among the Spanish moss in a large oak in a 

 clearing, and as it always took alarm at the light of my lantern 

 it could not be observed, much less collected." 



