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Dade County, Fla. (Hubbard and Schwarz); 1 913 (Type) 

 [U. S. N. M.]. 



Homestead, Fla., March 17-19, 1910; 19 <?, 23 9 , 4 n. 



Key West, Fla., March 15, 1910; 1 9 n. 



Punta Gorda, Fla., November 12-14, 1911 (Davis); 2 d\ 1 n. 

 [U. S. N. M.]. 



Our specimens of this species agree perfectly with the types. This 

 form is very close to N. bolteri Hancock, being probably a southern 

 geographic race of the same, differing in the somewhat less robust 

 form with the median carina of the pronotum less regularly arcuate 

 and subdepressed between the humeral angles. The species occurs 

 in one form with the pronotum elongate and another with the apex 

 of the same not surpassing the tips of the caudal femora. The 

 former of these is represented by ten males and five females from 

 Homestead and four males and two females from Miami. In general 

 appearance this form seems at first glance to be quite distinct from 

 the form having the short pronotum, but careful comparison shows 

 them to be identical. The present authors' Apotettix minutus is 

 based on the elongate form, and in consequence their name falls into 

 the synonymy, although it would have to be retained to distinguish 

 this phase should a separate name be used to indicate it. The median 

 carina of the pronotum is decidedly variable in strength in both of 

 these forms. The general size varies considerably in both sexes 

 and the coloration in a large number is quite uniform in tone without 

 the usual paired blackish velvety spots. There is some variation in 

 the rugosity of the pronotum, a few specimens having the rugse very 

 weak, but the subscutellate frontal costa readily separates these 

 specimens from the femoratus-variabilis series. • 



This was the common species of tettigid on the wet ground, sparsely 

 overgrown with the knee-high marsh grass, found on the arms of the 

 everglades and in "pot-holes" in the pine woods. 

 Tettigidea spicata Morse. 



Miami, Fla., March 28, 1910; 1 tf 1 n. 



This species, described from Georgia and Florida, has previously 

 been definitely recorded from but one locality, San Pablo, in the 

 latter State. 



The specimen before us is probably in the next to last nymphal 

 stage, and is referred without hesitation to this species. This nymph 

 was taken in the low moist spots in the pine woods among very low 

 swamp vegetation on the south bank of the Miami River. 



15 This specimen is the one recorded as "New Mexico" by Hancock. The 

 accession number shows it to have been taken in Dade County, Florida. 



