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based on males of aptcra and immature females of sphenarioides, 

 and hence falls as a synonym under those two species. 



153a. APTENOl'EDES .SPHENARIOIDES CLARA Rehll, 1902, 14. 



Usually somewhat longer than typical sphenarioides, and agreeing 

 with that form in color and structural characters except in the male geni- 

 tal organs, which differ as described in key. The furcula in typical clara, 

 are short, broad, depressed lobes, sometimes so short as to be almost or 

 wholly obsolete. Supra-anal plate shorter and wider with apex more 

 bluntly rounded. "Cerci more elongate, basal half tapering, apical half 

 decurved, falcate, bent inward, displaying a very marked internal shoul- 

 der." Length of body, $, 1927, ?, 2634; of pronotum, $, 3.55.5, 9, 

 5 7; of tegmina, $, 3 5.5, $, 4.7 6.8; of hind femora, $, 11 15, $, 

 13 17 mm. 



Biscayne Bay, Miami, Ft. Myers, Sarasota, Tampa, Key West 

 and Dunedin, Fla., August April (W. 8. B.). This so-called 

 race occurs in the southern half of peninsular Florida, and is so 

 close to the typical form that it is scarcely worthy of a varietal 

 name. About Lakeland, Duuediu and Sarasota the two forms in- 

 tergrade, the cerci being slightly shorter than in typical clara, 

 with tips bent inward but without the "shoulder" above men- 

 tioned, the supra-anal plate intermediate in width and the fur- 

 cula in form and length. The females are absolutely insepara- 

 ble from those of typical splicnarioides, though usually a little 

 larger. Its habits and haunts are essentially the same, though it 

 more often occurs closer to the coast. It has been recorded from 

 numerous localities in south Florida, including the southern Keys, 

 Eehn's types being from Miami. R. & H. (1914d, 109) state that 

 the evidence, based on specimens from Lakeland, strongly indi- 

 cates that clara is but a geographic race of sphcnarioidcs, and He- 

 bard (1915b, 407) has so placed it. 



154. APTEXOPEDES APTERA Scudder, 1877a, 86. Wingless Florida Locust. 



Female larger and more robust than in splienarioiiles; males much 

 smaller and more slender than females. Males in life green with a broad 

 pinkish-red stripe along each side of pronotal disk, and a narrower paler 

 reddish-yellow one along dorsal surface of abdomen; disk of pronotum and 

 upper sides of abdomen chocolate-brown; antennae dull green more or less* 

 dusky; hind tibiae blue; hind tarsi pink, the claws black-tipped. Female 

 either nearly uniform green or pale brown, the abdomen usually with a 

 narrow median dorsal reddish-yellow stripe, the sides flecked with small 

 scattered yellowish spots; hind tibiae pale blue, tarsi as in male; all the 

 colors fading much in drying. Head larger and broader than in spTienar- 

 ioides ; vertex in female narrower between the eyes; fastigium much more 

 strongly flattened in front of them, the margins of frontal costa reaching 

 its crest. Pronotum, especially that of female, much more strongly rugOoe 

 with sides of disk more tectiform, its front margin more produced for- 



