SUBFAMILY III. COPIPHORINJB. 



505 



reaching one-third to middle of plate. Female. Usually pale brown with 

 two very narrow fuscous stripes extending from near tip of fastigium back 

 to middle third of abdomen or beyond (these also present in the brown 

 males), the space between them darker on head and pronotum. Tegmina 

 very small, oblong pads, their inner edges not reaching the darker stripes 

 on abdomen. Ovipositor strongly tapering to an acute apex, its apical 

 half feebly upcurved. Length of body, $, 4041, $, 45; of fastigium 

 beyond base of antennae, $, 3.5, 9, 4.5; of pronotum, $, 8.610.4, 9, 9 

 10; of tegmina, $, 5.27.7, 9, 23; of hind femora, $, 1620, 9, 21- 

 21.8; of ovipositor, 1618 mm. (Fig. 167.) 



Fig. 167. Female. X I -7- (Original, by Fox.) 



Miami and Parish, Fla., Sept. 22 Oct. 17 (Davis). Ft. Myers, 

 Fla., Sept. 17, one green female, Gainesville collection. Described 

 from Punta Gorda and recorded also by E. & H. and Davis from 

 Homestead, Marathon, Cocoaimt Grove and Pineland, Fla., July 

 November. A subtropical species known only from the southern 

 third of Florida. The females appear to be far less numerous 

 than the males. 



Of its habits Davis (1912a, 122) says: "At Punta Gorda in 

 November, the males would perch on the topmost leaf of a scrub 

 palmetto and stridulate a song hardly to be distinguished from 

 the rapid 7A--/A--/A- of the Conocephalus cnsigcr of the northeastern 

 United States. They fed on the palmetto, their powerful jaws en- 

 abling them to gnaw the tough leaves." At Homestead R. & H. 

 (1914c, 401) found "the species very common on scrub palmetto, 

 Sere-next serntlata (Michx.) in the pine woods, and only at night, 

 when their stridulations permitted stalking with a flash-lamp. 

 The song was faint, and ceased on an approach of even as much 

 as twenty feet. However, they were easy to capture when located, 

 as they almost invariably made no attempt to escape, but instead 

 merely slipped down the palmetto leaf a few inches or around to 

 the other side and there flattened themselves out with caudal 

 limbs extended backward and cephalic limbs forward. When 

 picked up they would violently attempt to bite their captor, and 

 if successful could inflict a painful bite on a tender portion of 



