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unknown male of one of the forms of the present genus, but later, 26 

 after more study of the genus Apotettix, they placed minutus- in the 

 synonymy under coardatus, considering it to be the caudate type of 

 the male. In 1911, the present authors expressed their belief that 

 Morse was correct in his disposition of rotundifrons and also endorsed 

 the probability of bolivari and femoratus being the same, 27 the type 

 of the latter, which was unknown to Hancock, being before them. 

 In 1912, Relm and Hebard, 28 after examining the types of coardatus 

 and variabilis in the United States National Museum, stated that 

 coardatus was "very close to N. bolteri Hancock, being probably a 

 southern geographic race of the same," while of variabilis they 

 remarked that it is "very close to N. femoratus (Sc.)," and that 

 "more material may show this to be a geographic race of 

 N. femoratus." 



A very careful analysis has been made of the descriptions of the 

 "species" listed above and the following comments are also based 

 on exhaustive examinations of the large series before us, which, 

 representing as it does fifty-five localities, we feel is sufficient for 

 conclusive deductions. The possession of the type of femoratus (a 

 female from Maryland) enables us to speak with positiveness regard- 

 ing that species, which is the crux of the whole question, as Hancock, 

 who is chiefly responsible for the specific names listed above, was 

 entirely unacquainted with its identity. The synonymy of bolivari 

 and rotundifrons can be clearly demonstrated by the examination 

 of almost any extensive series from a single locality, the supposedly 

 differential characters being purely individual. A comparison of 

 Georgia and north Florida material, which is topotypic and in 

 character perfectly typical of "bolivari" and "rotundifrons," with 

 the type of femoratus shows they are certainly inseparable specifically 

 or even varietally, while the desirability or even advisability of 

 naming the long pronotum form of "bolivari" (b. longipennis 

 Hancock) is not at all evident to us, unless we intend in similar 

 fashion to multiply names by describing all of the color phases of 

 polychromatic species. 



Hancock's bolteri we find is a distinct species, typically very 

 different from femoratus, but peculiarly losing some of its definition 

 in central and southern Florida, individuals from which region are 

 often hard to separate from femoratus. Numerous comparisons have 



26 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1912, p. 244, (1912). 



27 Ibid., 1910, p. 622, (1911). 



28 Ibid., 1912, p. 244, (1912)". 



