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Taken in dead dry grasses under boards in a vacant field on the edge 

 of the city. 



Phoetalia laevigata (Beauv.). 



Key Largo, Fla., March, 1898, 1 9 . 6 



This specimen, taken by C. L. Pollard, is in the U. S. N. M. Col- 

 lection. 



Eurycotis floridana (Walker). 



Miami, Fla., March 28, 1910; 1 cf : November 15, 1911 (Engle- 

 hardt); 1 d" [B. I.]. 



Homestead, Fla., March 17-19, 1910; 4 n. 



Long Key, Fla., March 13, 17, 1910; 9 n. 



Key West, Fla., March 15, 16, 1910; 3c?,7 9 , 11 n. 



Of the above adult specimens but one, a female, possesses decided 

 light lateral borders on the pronotum, tegmina, and metanotum; 7 

 five others, however, representing both sexes, have more or less 

 distinct indications of the same. These bars are not at all indicated 

 in three of the five most immature individuals, but are very decided 

 in the nymphs in the several stages immediately preceding maturity. 

 The youngest specimens vary from uniform very dark seal-brown 

 to the same color passing into maroon on the median portion of the 

 thoracic segments, one of the latter coloration having fairly distinct 

 lateral bars on a portion of the pronotum. One of the youngest 

 Long Key nymphs is much paler than any of the others, being dark 

 ferruginous with weakly indicated lateral bars. The antennae of 

 these quite juvenile individuals are ochraceous, slightly darker in 

 some than in others. Apparently with the assumption of the pale 

 lateral bars the head becomes paler, ferruginous in fact, and the 

 antennae are darkened. As growth progresses the head becomes 

 burnt sienna, more or less clouded with seal-brown as found in the 

 adult. 



The specimens taken from the Florida mainland were all found in 

 the pine woods under the dry bark of dead pine logs. On Long Key 

 the series was taken from the dry fibres at the base of the heads of 

 cocoanut palms; two adults seen escaped. 



At Key West a large colony was discovered among boards lying 

 on dry grass in a field, and several were captured upon turning over 

 coquina boulders in the dense bush. When trying excitedly to 



6 See Ent. News, Vol. XXI, p. 103, 1910. 



7 For the synonomy of Platyzosteria sabalianus Scudder, Plaiyzosteria ingens 

 Scudder, and Periplaneta scmipirta Walker, see Rehn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 

 Vol. XXIX, p. 277, 1903. 



