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the Alexandria ones. The Elkhart, Texas, series is very deeply 

 but dully colored, while the single Waurika male is also very dull. 

 From central-northern Florida (Woodville) and southwestern 

 Georgia (Bainbridge) westward in the Gulf Coast region the spe- 

 cies averages paler, and with lighter greens than it does along 

 the eastern coast from North Carolina south into peninsular Florida. 



Distribution. — In the east the range of this species extends 

 from as far north as central North Carolina (Salisbury and New 

 Berne), south to south-central Florida (lona, Fort Myers and 

 Okeechobee, St. Lucie County), the Gulf Coast of western Florida, 

 Alabama, Mississippi and interior Louisiana; west to northeastern 

 Texas (Dallas, Longview and Elkhart), northwestward to central 

 Oklahoma (Perkins, Stillwater, Shawnee and Waurika) and ex- 

 treme southeastern Kansas (Independence), north in the Mississ- 

 ippi Valley to southern Missouri (HoUister). In the east it occurs 

 chiefly below the Fall-line in the Coastal Plain, but immature 

 material, clearly of this species, has been taken at Toccoa, Georgia, 

 over one thousand feet elevation, and at Salisbury, North Caro- 

 lina, while we have examined one adult from Clemson College, 

 South Carolina, which is at an elevation of eight hundred and 

 fifty feet. The northern limit of the species' distribution in Ala- 

 bama and Mississippi remains to be determined; we feel confident, 

 from our field experience, that it is either absent or extremely 

 scarce in southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas. 



The presence of areas of long- and short-leaf pine appears to 

 exercise a decided influence on the distribution of this species, 

 although it occurs to the northwest of the range of these trees in 

 Oklahoma. 



Biological Notes. — This beautiful species frequents tall grass in 

 long- or short-leaf pine woods of rolling or flat woods type, or 

 mixed woods; occasionally in wet woods or along the borders of 

 swampy timbered areas. It also occurs in associated gallberry 

 and similar bushes in its preferred environment, and persists in 

 grasses and oak sprouts after the higher covering forest has been 

 removed. Rarely it appears to invade old fields growing up in 

 grasses and bushes, and rather infrequently is found in sandy 

 barrens of low oak and pine, where it occurs in the scant grass 

 and oak sprouts. It is a moderately strong flier and is quite adept 

 at dodging, its conspicuous coloring not rendering it as evident 

 as would be imagined. 



