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transparent buffy, the anal field bordered with blackish brown, 

 this heavy along the anal sulcus, continued distad along the remain- 

 ing brief portion of the sutural margin. Dorsal surface of abdo- 

 men blackish brown in lateral fourth, finely marbled with buffy 

 and very weak ochraceous orange; mesal half, including supra- 

 anal plate, buft"y. finely marbled with weak ochraceous orange and, 

 in intensive condition, with blackish brown. Limbs and under- 

 parts buffy: male with lateral margins of coxae very finely and of 

 abdomen narrowly, blackish brown, the al)domen becomes hazel 

 toward, and including, the subgenital plate; female generally 

 similar, except that the abdomen is very broadly margined laterad 

 with blackish brown, the mesal portion and subgenital plate deep 

 hazel. The females show an average more intensive coloration 

 than do the males. The palest female before us (Floyd's Island, 

 Georgia) has the darkest shades of the dorsum of the abdomen 

 cinnamon rufous. 



In the young the color pattern is similar, but with the lines more 

 delicate; the mesonotum and metanotum are narrowly margined 

 caudad with blackish brown. 



Ootheca. — This is carried with suture dorsad in position. It is 

 very small, 4.8 mm. in greatest length and 2.8 mm. wide. The 

 sides have each about thirty fine, parallel, longitudinal ridges. 

 The suture is supplied with eighteen well spaced, blunt knobs. 



Over its range the species was often found under signs on trees. 

 When exposed, individuals ran over the tree trunk with really 

 astonishing rapidity. 



The present species is widely distributed over the southeastern 

 United States, the single Bahaman record given below representing 

 its only known occurrence elsewhere. In addition to part of the 

 material here recorded, the species has been incorrectly recorded as 

 diaphana from Billy's Island in the Okeefenokee Swamp, Georgia 

 and from Newberry and Gainesville, P^lorida. 



Specimens Examined: 102; 40 males, 47 females, 4 immature males, 5 immature 

 females and 6 very small immature examples. 



Houston, Texas, Mil, 12, 1915, (Hebard; in Spanish moss, Tilkuidsia, on oak), 

 I juv. 9, [Hebard Cln.]. 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



