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The males of this species average very sHghtly smaller than the 

 females, the more projecting subgenital plate, however, gives them 

 an average equal body length. 



Coloration. — General coloration ochraceous-buff with a tawny 

 tinge. Head of general coloration, with a narrow, transverse line 

 of prout's brown between the eyes, this line individually varies 

 somewhat in intensity but is always conspicuous. Sometimes this 

 line is margined with a paler coloration than the other portions of 

 the head, ochraceous-buff to warm buff, these margins always 

 weakly defined. Eyes prout's brown. Disk of pronotum varying 

 from ochraceous-buff with a tawny tinge, to ochraceous-tawny ; 

 lateral portions of pronotum transparent, with a buffy tinge. Teg- 

 mina transparent ochraceous-buff. Wings transparent, in large 

 part weakly iridescent and faintly tinged with ochraceous-tawny, 

 this hca\y in area of costal veins and narrowly along basal margin 

 of appendicular field; appendicular field weakly tinged with ochra- 

 ceous-tawny, with a suffusion of buckthorn brown along the an- 

 terior margin. Abdomen and underparts of male ochraceous- 

 tawny. X'entral abdominal segments of female broadly margined 

 laterad with buffy. Subgenital plate of female margined with buffy, 

 broadly laterad, narrowly distad. 



Four immature examples from Key West, Florida, beaten from 

 Ilex cassine, are weak ochraceous-tawny in general coloration, 

 with paler lateral markings on abdomen distinct in two, weakly 

 defined in two. Two immature males, taken in the leaf mould 

 of the key scrub at the same place, have the dorsal surface of the 

 abdomen dark brown, marked with buffy laterad and meso-distad 

 on the exposed segments, this becoming stronger latero-cephalad. 

 The dark brown coloration is continued in meso-lateral, suffused 

 bands on the metanotum, mesonotum and pronotum, these bands 

 becoming weaker cephalad. 



In the single female before us bearing an ootheca, only a suffi- 

 cient portion is projecting to determine that this capsule is carried 

 with suture dorsad; the suture bearing regularly placed, minute, 

 but well projecting teeth, at wide intervals. 



The known distril)ution of the species is defined by the material 

 listed below. 



MEM. AM. ENT. SOC, 2. 



