SUBFAMILY III. COPIPHORIX.E. 



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be was unable to separate the males from Indiana and New Jer- 

 sey except by the labels they bore, and Fox (Ms.) say f s that the 

 only differences he could find in both sexes was the slight one 

 afforded by the fastigium. 



The type of li/ristcs was a male labelled "("hokoloskee, Fla.," 

 a locality which R. & H. (1915, 384) seriously question, but which 

 is borne out by a Palm Beach female at hand, which agrees in all 

 particulars with the type and New Jersey specimens except in 

 color, it being a nearly uniform purplish-brown instead of green 

 and in its having a slightly longer and more slender fastigium. 



The known range of the race lyristes extends from Long Is- 

 land, X. Y., and various points in Xew Jersey, southwest to Tap- 

 pahannock, Va. It is also known from the type locality and 

 Palm Beach, Fla., but not from intervening points from Virginia 

 southward. R. & H. (1915, 381) state that lyristfs is "locally com- 

 mon in Xew Jersey in bogs, fresh water marshes and in the coastal 

 salt water-marshes in areas of Scirpus and high marsh plants 

 near the mainland, but never out on the tidal flats where inelanor- 

 Jt in it s occurs. It has nowhere been found more than a few miles 

 from the seacoast. * * The song is a high-pitched continuous 

 buzzing, very much like that of N. retitsus, but distinctly longer." 



236. NEOCOXOCEPHALUS MELANORHINUS (Rehn & Hebard), 1907, 304. 



Black-nosed Cone-head. 



Size small for the genus; form rather robust. Green or smoky brown 

 with sides of fastigium and lateral carinse of pronotum yellowish, sides of 

 tarsi brown; dark form often with a narrow shining purplish-brown 

 stripe on upper fourth of lateral lobes, this extending back along the 

 principal veins of tegmina. Fastigium as described in key, narrowed 



Fig. 172. Female type. X *-5- (After R. & H.) 



from the middle forward, its upper surface sparsely punctate and with 

 a fine median groove. Antennae but little longer than the hind femora. 

 Pronotum with lateral carinas distinctly but feebly divergent backward, 

 surface coarsely and closely punctate; lateral lobes slightly longer than 

 deep, their lower margin oblique, its angle obtuse. Tegmina surpassing 

 the hind femora about one-third their length, cross-veinlets prominent, 



