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names of Burmeister may as well be assigned to the species to 

 which they are attached by R. & H. as to any other and I have 

 so retained them. 



282. ATLANTICUS GLABER Rehn & He-bard, 1912, 269. Smooth Shield-bearer. 

 Size medium, form rather slender. Pale brown; lateral lobes of pro- 

 noturn black, their lower margin ivory-white and apical half suffused with 

 olive-gray; sides of abdomen with vague blackish triangular blotches. 

 Fastigium slightly wider than basal joint of antenna?. Disk of pronotum 

 elongate, narrow, convex, subequal in width throughout, its hind margin 

 broadly rounded (Figs. 194, 7i, 198.) Tegmina of male scarcely, or not at 

 all, exceeding the hind margin of pronotum. Hind femora slender, nearly 



as long as body, armed with four to nine spines 

 on inner lower margin. Male with apex of sub- 

 genital plate acutely emarginate; cerci short, 

 stout, depressed toward apex, the latter rather 

 blunt; the tooth at apical two-fifths short, 

 sharp, slightly recurved. Female with notch of 

 subgenital plate rather broadly U-shaped, the 

 lateral angles subacute (Fig. 194, i)\ ovipositor 

 straight, nearly one-third shorter than hind fe- 

 mora, the apex ventral (Fig. 195, h). Length 

 of body, $, 24 31, 9, 24.532; of pronotum, 

 $, 10.612, 9, 11.211.8; of hind femora, $, 

 25.827, 9, 2830.2; of ovipositor, 17.520.4 

 mm. Greatest width of pronotum, $ , 4.1 4.7, 

 9, 4.14.9 mm. (Fig. 198.) 



Dnnedin and Sarasota, Fla., Nov. 2 

 March 1 , i IF. N. R. } . The types of R. & H. 

 were from Miami and the species seems to 

 replace . 1. f/ibbosus in central and south- 

 ern Florida. It has so far been recorded 

 only from Ft. Reed, Tampa, Pineland, 

 Marco, Miami and Homestead, Fla., the 

 adults having been taken from March f> to 

 May 20, mostly among the undergrowth of 

 pine woods, sometimes among the grass- 

 es of adjoining marshes. At Marco Davis 

 took them "by treading closely and more or less shoving the feet 

 through the tangled grasses of a small moist meadow on the in- 

 terior of Key Marco." North of Florida it is known only from 

 Uilly's Island, Ga., where Hebard found it in July, 1017. 



283. ATLAXTICTJS CALCAKATUS Rehn & Hebard, 1916a, 93. Long-spurred 

 Shield-bearer. 



Closely related to A. glaber. Differs according to R. & H. by "the 

 shorter pronotum, truncate caudal margin of disk of same, deeper and 



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Fig. 



198. Male type. 

 (After R. & H.) 



