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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[May, 



Homestead specimens, all, however, larger than northern Florida 

 representatives. The minimum and maximum measurements in 

 millimeters of each sex in the present series are as follows: 



Homestead. 



Length of body 12.5 ^^ U^ 



Length of pronotum 4.2 4.8 



Length of tegmen 3. 3.2 



Length of caudal femur 12.5 14.5 



Big Pine Key. 



Length of body 11.7 I2T8 



Length of pronotum 4 . 4 . 



Length of tegmen 2.8 2.8 



Length of caudal femur 12.2 12.5 



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Detroit. 



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Homestead. Detroit. t ^^'^ 



, . ^ , . , Largo. 



Length of body (exclusive 



of ovipositor) 11.6 17. 15. 14. 20.3 



Length of pronotum 4.7 5. 4.9 5.3 6. 



Length of caudal femur 13.8 16 . 14 . 16.7 17.4 



Length of ovipositor 13. 13. 13.9 13.5 18.8 



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Ijong Big Pine t' -ixr t 



Key Key. ^^^y ^ ^^■^^- 

 Length of body (exclusive of 



ovipositor) 17.1 14.2 12.5 17. 



Length of pronotum 5.2 4.9 5.3 5.5 



Length of caudal femur 17.4 13.5 16.5 16. 



Length of ovipositor 17. 13. 16.2 18.5 



The range of the species is considerably extended to the southward 

 by the present records, as it was not previously known from south 

 of Sanford, Fla. 



At Homestead the species was not scarce in rank grasses in potholes 

 in the pine woods, at Detroit it was found in pine woods, on Key 

 West a f(nv adults and many nymphs were encountered in weedy 

 tangles and grassy spots in jungle brush, while on Big Pine Key it 

 was occasional in green herbage in the pine woods. 



Orchelimum nitidum llcdtonbaclior. 



Detroit, Fla., July 12, 1912; 4 cf , 3 9 . 



The present record is the most southern known for the species, 

 which has a considerable range to the northward. 



