SUBFAMILY III. COPIPHORINjE. 



507 



black; basal halves of antennae spotted or ringed with dark brown; fore 

 femora often with a row of small brown dots on outer face. Fastigium as 

 long as the occiput, strongly tapering to a sharp decurved point. Disk of 

 pronotum twice as long as wide, slightly rugose, the lateral lobes much 

 more so. Tegmina as long as pronotum, their tips narrowly obliquely 

 rounded. Notch of supra-anal plate distinctly wider than deep (Fig. 166, c. ) 

 Female. Usually brown, with the interval between the narrow fuscous 

 stripes on head and pronotum darker. Tegmina as in sabalis. Ovipositor 

 slightly longer than hind femora, less tapering and with tip more obtuse 

 than in sabalis. Length of body, $, 28 34, $, 30 38; of fastigium be- 

 yond the eye, $, 2.6 3.2, J, 3.54; of pronotum, $, 6.28, 9, 88.5; 

 of tegmina, $, 88.5, $, 33.5; of hind femora, $, 1417, $, 1719; 

 of ovipositor, 1921 mm. (Fig. 168.) 



Fig. 168. Male X 2 - (Original by Fox.) 



Gainesville, Sanford and Dunedin, Fla., Oct. 14 Jan. 13 

 (W. 8. B.}. Three specimens were taken at Sanford Jan. 11 and 

 12, from between boards of a lumber pile and two at Dunedin, 

 Jan. 13, from beneath a board near the border of a pond, thus 

 showing- that the adults in central Florida sometimes hibernate. 

 Scudder's types were females from N. E. Florida, and the species 

 has been recorded from many points in the northern half of that 

 State. It has also been taken by R. & H. (1916, 258) at Florence, 

 Ashley Junction and Yemassee, S. Car., and at numerous stations 

 in Georgia. They state that it is most abundant in Georgia in 

 early December, and is then found mostly amongst the shrub- 

 bery and other undergrowth of open pine woods and palmetto 

 hammocks. 



229a. BELOCEPHALUS SUBAPTERUS DAVISI Rehn & Hebard, 1916, 259. 

 Davis's Cone-head. 



Somewhat larger and more robust than subapterus. Color and black 

 markings on head, antenna? and pronotum as there. Differs in the form 

 of the emargination of the supra-anal plate of male, the notch being more 

 rounded than in typical subapterus. "It is not quite as deep as in 

 sleigliti. and has the sides convex and angle very broadly rounded. The 

 lateral productions formed by this emargination have evenly converging 

 sides with blunt and sharply rounded apex situated mesad." (R. & H.) 

 Length of body, $, 3340, $, 36; of vertex, 3.74.5; of pronotum, $ , 



