MORGAN HEBARD 



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Coloration. — Glossy; warm buff in general coloration. Head 

 warm buff with flattened inter-ocular-ocellar area prout's brown, 

 this broken mesad by twin spots of warm buff; several flecks of 

 prout's brown on face below this marking. Eyes deep mummy 

 brown. Antennae snuff brown, paler proximad. Maxillary palpi 

 sepia, with proximal joints somewhat paler. Pronotum with disk 

 warm buff, supplied with a few^^ very small dots of prout's brown, 

 lateral areas transparent and almost colorless. Tegmina trans- 

 parent warm buff, with marginal field almost colorless. Wings 

 hyaline, faintly tinged with buffy in area of costal veins, principal 

 veins translucent, dark buffy brown. Dorsal surface of abdomen 

 warm buff, suffused on either side with mummy brown, ventral 

 surface of general coloration, suffused on either side with a moder- 

 ately broad band of dark mummy brown, which is more decided 

 in the male, the remaining narrow lateral borders pale buffy, both 

 dorsad and ventrad. Cerci prout's brown. 



Immature examples are antimony yellow^ to ochraceous-buft" in 

 general coloration, with the darker markings as in the adults more 

 tawny, while the submarginal dark suffusions of the dorsal sur- 

 face of the abdomen are continued on the metanotum, and fre- 

 quently this color appears strongly on themesonotum meso-laterad, 

 immediately within the tegminal projections. In the intensive 

 condition, the dark brown marking is there triangular on each 

 side. This type of coloration prevents confusion of immatures of 

 this species with those of any other Florid ian form. 



The insect was found very widely distributed throughout the 

 pine woods {Piniis caribaea) in extreme southeastern Florida. 



^' In specimens of intensive coloration this area is distinctly speckled, while the inter- 

 ocular dark area is almost solid. 



MEM. .AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



