172 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [April, 



Clinocephalus elegans Morse. 



1905. Clinocephalus pulcher Rehn and Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1905, p. 36. [Miami, Florida.] 



Maryland. Brunswick, VIII, 30, 1911, (H.), 1 d\ 



Piney Point, VIII, 12, 1880, 19, „ 1 9 • 



[Hebard Cln 1 Cumberland Island, VIII, 31, 1911, 



v 'J r ,. (R.&H.),1 juv.9. 



North Carolina. JesuP) IX , l, 1911, (R. & H.), 21 <?, 



Fayetteville, IX, 9, 1911, (R. & H.), 9 9. 



lie?, 3 9. Billy's Island, VII, 1912; IX, 1-5, 



Lake Waccamaw, IX, 8, 1911, (R. & 1913, (J. C. Bradley), 2 9,2 juv. 9 . 



H.), 11 c?, 7 9 , 1 juv. 9 . Suwannee Creek, VIII, 28, 1911, (R. & 



Wilmington, IX, 8, 1911, (R. & H.), H.), 2 <?, 2 9. 



11 c?, 5 9 . Hebardville, VIII, 28, 1911, (H.), 1 9 . 



Winter Park, IX, 7, 1911, (R. & H.), Homerville, VIII, 27, 1911, (R. & H.), 



27 c?, 30 9. 22 c?, 7 9, 1 juv.9. 



Wrightsville, IX, 7, 1911, (R. & H.), FlorUa 



South Carolina. 



Jacksonville, VIII, 25, 1911, (R. & H.), 



2 c?, 29, 



Ashley Junction, VIII, 15, 1913, (R.), South Jacksonville, IX, 7, 1913, (W. T. 



3 cf, 2 juv. 9. Davis), 3 d\ 1 9. 



Yemassee, IX, 4, 1911, (R. & H.), Atlantic Beach, VIII, 24-25, 1911, 



23 c?, 35 9 . (R. & H.), 12 c?, 12 9 , 1 juv. 9 . 



Georgia. Texas. 



Tybee Island, IX, 2, 1911, (R. & H.), Webster, Harris County, VII, 19, 1912, 



9 c?, 99. (H.), 2 c?. 



Sandfly, IX, 3, 1911, (R. & H.), 11 c?, Dickinson, Galveston Countv, VII, 



59. 20, 1912, (H.), 3 c?. 



A critical examination of this material shows that in the southern 

 part of its range the species varies away from the more northern 

 type, much as do Orphulella olivacea and Chortophaga viridifasciata, 

 the general size, as a rule, increasing southward and the fastigium 

 there becoming appreciably broader and blunter. Material from 

 Miami, Florida, has been separated from true elegans by the authors, 

 who first considered it to represent a full species, Clinocephalus 

 pulcher, and later regarded it as a geographic race of elegans. 47 

 Specimens from as far north as St. Simon's Island, Georgia, were con- 

 sidered representative of pulcher, the characters of which were also 

 analyzed on the basis of Florida material. 48 In the light of the 

 additional collections now available, it seems best to place this 

 name unreservedly in synonymy. The characters are not decided 

 or constant enough in our opinion to justify the retention of the 

 name, the recognition of a geographic race requiring, it appears 

 to us, more uniformity in, and more significance to, its differential 

 characters over at least the greater portion of its range. The gradual 

 increase in size and the broadening and bluntening of the fastigium 



47 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1910, p. 588, (1911). 



48 Ibid., 1907, p. 287, (1907). 



