140 FAMILY IV. PHASMID^E. THE WALKING-STICKS. 



abdominal segments and the form of the apex of the male abdomen, as 

 described in the key and shown in Fig. 56. The female differs from that 

 sex of tenuescens in having the sixth dorsal segment considerably longer 

 than the seventh and eighth, the ninth segment equal in length to thorax 

 and the subgenital plate rounded or subtruncate, with caudal margin very 

 little produced. Length of body, $, 69.688.5, 5, 92.6; of mesothorax, 

 $, 15.821.4, 9, 21; of hind femora, $, 2025.3, 5, 23.8 mm. 



Originally described from Homestead and Detroit, Florida, 

 July 10 12; San Pablo, Aug. 13, and Miami (female and 11 

 nymphs), March 28. Since recorded from Marco, LaBelle, La 

 Grange and Charlotte Harbor, Fla. Like If. tenuescens, it occurs 

 mainly on the undergrowth of pine woods. Davis (1914) states 

 that at La Grange, Sept. 9 12, with the aid of a lantern he found 

 both M. tenuescens and brachypi/ya at night, when they were 

 active and walking about on the low vegetation in the pine woods. 



57. MAXOMEBA BLATCHLEYI (Caudell), 1905c, 212. Blatchley's Walking- 

 stick. 



Form shorter and proportionally slightly stouter than in tenuescens. 

 Color the same as that of D. veliei the males usually somewhat darker 

 than those of that species and with a pale lateral stripe extending back 

 to hind femora. Head subcylindrical, feebly enlarged in front. Pronotum 

 narrower and but slightly shorter than head. Length of mesonotum four- 

 fifths that of metanotum and median segment combined. Seventh and 

 eighth abdominal segments of male subequal in length, each slightlv 

 shorter than ninth, the latter in female feebly and broadly emarginate. 

 the supra-anal plate small, triangular, carinate above. Cerci of male 

 cylindrical, scarcely at all tapering, decurved and incurved as in D. femo- 

 rata, the subbasal tooth on the inner margin very short, blunt; cerci of 

 female slender, straight, tapering, as long as the ninth segment (Fig. 

 54, d.) Legs stouter proportionally than those of tenuescens; middle fe- 

 mora of male very finely serrate beneath and armed near apex with a 

 stout, blunt, nearly horizontal spine; those of female slender, the spine 

 short, straight. Length of body, $ , 58, 9, 67; of head, $ , 3, 9,4; of 

 mesonotum, $, 13, 9, 15 16; of metanotum, $ and 9, 12; of hind fe- 

 mora, $, 20, 9, 18 20; of cerci, 9, 3.7 mm. 



The types of this walking-stick in the U. S. National Museum 

 were taken by me near Bass Lake, Starke Co., Ind., Aug. 20, 1902, 

 and no additional specimens have since been personally collected. 

 It doubtless occurs, however, throughout the northern half, per- 

 haps over the entire State. A female is at hand from Cedar Point, 

 Ohio, and Kostir (1914, 371) states that numerous females but no 

 males were taken at that place. Hart (1907, 2.~>9), recorded it as 

 occurring on rank prairie vegetation throughout Illinois, and also 

 from Geneva, Wis. Gerhard has sent me a male and two females 



