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bushes growing on the very edge of the everglades. Five stages 

 of development are represented among the eleven immature indi- 

 viduals. The adult female had just reached the mature stage and 

 when captured was still in a soft condition. Considerable search 

 failed to reveal more adults, and the indications are that in this 

 region the last of March is the very earliest time for adults to appear. 

 Aplopus mayeri Caudell. 



Key Largo, Fla., March 18, 1910; 1 n. 



The specimen was beaten from a dense tangle of wild grape vines 

 and other shrubbery growing in the heart of the jungle on Key Largo. 

 So dense was the overhead vegetation in this situation that a condi- 

 tion of twilight existed throughout the day. While the specimen is 

 quite immature, being but seventeen millimeters in length, it possesses 

 sufficient in the way of characters to enable us to determine the 

 species when compared with an adult par at y pic pair from the type 

 locality, Loggerhead Key. Florida. This record brings the range 

 of this species close to the mainland of Florida, the only known 

 locality other than the two mentioned above being Key West 

 (Caudell). 



Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stolb. 



Miami, Fla., March 27, 28, 1910; 4 n. 



Homestead, Fla., March 17-19, 1910; 19,1 nearly adult and 2 quite 

 immature specimens. 



Long Key, Fla., March 13, 17, 1910; 5 n. 



Key West, Fla., March 15, 16, 1910; 7 c?,3 9 , 2 nearly adult and 

 2 quite immature specimens. 



The youngest specimens in this series show that the longitudinal 

 blackish lines of the adult are rarely present as pronounced con- 

 tinuous markings in the earlier stages of immaturity, in a few 

 cases they are completely but weakly indicated and in most 

 of the specimens are represented by more or less discontinued 

 lineations on the head and thoracic segments. When the in- 

 dividuals are more than half the size of the adults, the lateral 

 blackish lines are weakly indicated and the median one is propor- 

 tionately narrower than in the adults and on the head, thorax, and 

 portion of the abdomen divided by a hair-line of ochraceous. The 

 adult specimens of both sexes are strongly patterned with black, the 

 width of the median bar varying appreciably. The coloration of 

 the adults is Vandyke brown shading into russet, while that of the 

 nymphs in the last stages of immaturity is wood-brown shading into 

 bistre. It would be easy to mistake the nymphs in the last stage 



