222 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [April, 



of M. puer from Jacksonville, Florida, in his Revision. 80 A series of 

 sixty-nine specimens from northern Florida have been referred by 

 the present authors to the synonymous inops, while the three females 

 mentioned above from Thomasville and Metcalfe, Georgia, were unfor- 

 tunately recorded by us as M. sylvestris, 81 females of which species 

 may at once be roughly separated by their red caudal tibia?. 



Scudder's placing of the present species is most unsatisfactory, 

 as it is a development of the M. puer type; his opinion that the 

 synonymous inops belonged to a widely different group demonstrates 

 amply his own uncertainty in the matter. 



A certain amount of size variation is appreciable, the series from 

 the Okeefenokee Swamp and Jacksonville averaging larger than the 

 others. 



Measurements (in millimeters) of extremes. 



Least width between 

 Length of body. tegmina. 



&& 9 9 cTcf 9 9 



Cumberland Island, Ga... 13.6-16.7 17.8-20.5 .6-1 1.4-1.9 



Jacksonville, Fla 17-17.9 20.4-23.3 .8-1.1 1.1-1.7 



LiveOak, Fla 14-16.1 18-20.3 .9-1 1.3-1.7 



The greatest tegminal separation is shown in a Thomasville 

 female, where the least intervening width is 2.4 mm. 



The general coloration of the species varies from fuscous to orange 

 cinnamon. All of the males have the dorsal portion of the lateral 

 lobes of the pronotum shining black, but more than half of the 

 females have this marking abruptly discontinued at the metazona. 

 The caudal femora range from an immaculate type of coloration to 

 one in which they are heavily twice banded with fuscous, the immacu- 

 late type being found more often in the males. 



The species was found, usually locally distributed, in the under- 

 growth of the long-leaf pine woods, but was also sometimes met 

 with in the undergrowth of mixed pine and oak woods (Live Oak), 

 and on palmetto flats (Brunswick). As Morse has noted, the differ- 

 ences in general coloration of specimens were found to correspond 

 with the color of the surrounding soil or dead leaves in which indi- 

 viduals were taken. 



The present species has a very limited distribution, northward being 

 known from Brunswick west to Thomasville in Georgia, and south- 

 ward as far as Lakeland in central Florida, in which latitude it appears 



80 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XX, p. 253, (1898). 



81 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, p. 791, (1905). 



