34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY bF [Jan., 



great swiftness, but when resting pressed themselves close to the bark, 

 which they exactly resembled. 



Miami. — I found a few immature specimens on the trunk of a tree 

 in a swampy spot near the Miami river. (H.) 

 Thesprotia graminis (Scudder). 



This species is represented by an immature specimen from Tampa, 

 taken January 17, 1904, another from Key West, taken January 18, 

 1904, and six mature or nearly mature individuals from Miami, taken 

 in February, March, July and August. 



I have usually found this species in the pine straw of the pine woods, 

 which it so closely resembles as to be invisible when stationary. (H.) 



Family PHASMID^. 

 Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll). 



Three specimens of this species were taken at Key West on January 

 19, 1904, and one adult has been examined from Miami, taken August 

 5, 1903. 



Specimens from Key West were taken from among the roots of 

 gumbo-limbo trees. A pair taken on January 19 were in coitu. (H.) 



Family AORIDID^. 

 Apotettix minutus n. sp. (PI. I, flgs. 3 and 4). 



Type : c? ; Miami, Dade county, Florida. February 6, 1904. Col- 

 lected by Morgan Hebard. 



Allied to A. rugosus (Scudder), but very considerably smaller, with 

 the median carina of the pronotum very slightly depressed between 

 the humeral angles, the margins of the median femora scarcely undu- 

 late and the pul villi of the caudal metatarsi of subequal length. 



Size small; form robust; surface finely tuberculate. Head small; 

 occiput ascending; vertex not elevated above the level of the eyes; 

 fastigium subtruncate, very slightly wider than one of the eyes, dis- 

 tinctl}^ excavated laterad, cephalic margin distinctly carinate and 

 romided in toward the median carina; median carina of fastigium dis- 

 tinct, extending back to the middle of the eyes and projecting cephalad 

 beyond the margin of the fastigium ; frontal costa slightly and regu- 

 larly divergent to the median ocellus, ventrad of which it is absent; 

 eyes moderately prominent, slightly ovate in outline. Pronotum pro-* 

 duccd, surpassing the tips of the caudal femora; median carina dis- 

 tinct, slightly elevated and arcuate, very slightly depressed between 

 the humeral angles; anterior margin subtruncate; caudal process very 

 slightly subulate; humeral angle not strongly marked, scapular area 



