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middle of tegmina. Other characters as given under the generic heading. 

 Length of body, $, 3234, $, 3542; of fastigium beyond eye, $, 3.5 

 4; 9, 44.5; of pronotum, $, 9.5, $,10; of tegmina, $, 37 42, $, 42 

 46; of hind femora, $ , 18, $, 20; of ovipositor, 19 21.5 mm. 



Gainesville, Miami, and Cape Sable, Fla., Sept. 24 Feb. 23. 

 The Miami specimens from the Davis collection are labelled: "This 

 and eight or ten others eating grass at night." It does not ap- 

 pear to be widely distributed in Florida, having been recorded 

 only from Miami, Marco, Chokoloskee, Everglade and Charlotte 

 Harbor, all in the southern third of the State. Davis states that 

 their song resembles a~ik, <i~ik, azik. u~ik, and that thev are verv 



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shy when singing and difficult to capture. At Charlotte Harbor 

 Hebard says (1916, 20) "They were heard on May 19 and 20 

 everywhere after dark on TJseppa Island, singing in the tops of 

 the cabbage palmettoes, where they were usually located in the 

 berry clusters. A few were also heard in the undergrowth of the 

 heavier tangles and in mangroves on the edge of the swamp. 

 While singing the males were very wary when approached, usually 

 ceasing their song at a distance of 15 or more feet. The insect is 

 slow in movements, clinging tenaciously to its support and easily 

 seized if approached cautiously." The Cape Sable specimen, tak- 

 en on Feb. 23, was a m'nipk of the third instar. 



The wariness of P. uncinata mentioned by Davis and Hebard 

 w r as not noted by Allard who captured a single male in stridula- 

 tion at Thompson's Mills, Ga., in October. He says (1911b) "The 

 insect was traced by its note to the low grass and weeds on a 

 bank almost in the midst of the settlement. By the strong light 

 of a bull's eye lantern the writer approached within a foot or two 

 of the insect which continued to stridulate vigorously for some 

 time, even though in the full glare of a strong light. After its 

 notes had ceased, the insect at intervals jerked its body and wings 

 spasmodically without producing any sound. This peculiar be- 

 havior is characteristic of a number of species of Conocephalus 

 when disturbed during stridulation. On the grass and weeds very 

 near where this male was taken, the w T riter a night or two before 

 heard several locusts in stridulation, presumably individuals of 

 P. uncinata. As the notes of these insects were heard but one or 

 two nights, it is possible that their stridulation period is very 

 brief. The note is a loud, penetrating, prolonged ,c-.c-.c-.c-.c'-.c-.:-."-.:-.c- 

 c-.~-.c-.i quite like that of a Conocephalus.'' 



The type of Harris was from Alabama and the species is 

 known to range from Clarksville, Tenn., and Raleigh, N. Car., west 



