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brown. Roturning to this place on the next day, I at last succeeded in 

 taking a mature female. (M. H.) 

 Syrbula admirabilis (Uhler). 



Seven specimens of this species taken at Thomasville, in 1903, have 

 been examined. Four of the seven are immature and were taken on 

 June 30, July 6, 7 and 16. The four adults were taken June 30 (cJ^), 

 July 6(9), September 30 ( 9 ) and December 14 ( 9 ). An interesting 

 feature noticed in this series, and substantiated by other material 

 from the Middle Atlantic States, is the transition from a depressed 

 ensiform antenna in the immature form to a slender, subfiliform type 

 in the adult. From a phylogenetic standpoint this fact would indicate 

 a type with ensiform antennsc, like Mermiria, as the ancestor of the 

 genus Syrhula. 



I captured one female specimen of this species in damp low pine 

 woods in December. (M. H.) 

 Amblytropidia occidentalis (Saussure). 



This modestly colored but lively species is almost without exception 

 found in pine and black gum woods, but in pine woods the species is 

 more abundant than elsewhere, being found in association with Radino- 

 tatum and Aptenopedes. The series examined contains ninety-eight 

 specimens from Thomas and Leon counties, and exhibits a great amount 

 of variation in color and some in structure. In some female speci- 

 mens the pronotum is more expanded than in others, and the head also 

 appears slightly stouter. The amount of color variation is remark- 

 able, though confined to browns and grays. From an extreme black- 

 ish-brown form all intergrades are present to types of a uniform sienna 

 and ashy gray. Some individuals are obscurely lined on each side of 

 the median carina of the pronotum. The following color notes are 

 from life: Female, Thomasville, November 30, 1903; general color 

 mars brown and mummy brown spotted and streaked; eyes broccoli 

 brown; posterior femora laterally mars brown, darkest dorsally, above 

 wood brown with a few mars brown spots, beneath pinkish-vinaceous, 

 internally milky white blotched with blackish and dull brown; posterior 

 tibise basally wood brown becoming l:)luish-black apically; abdomen 

 with the dorsal surface pale ochraceous-rufous, laterally wood brown 

 washed blackish basally, each segment with the apical margin milky 

 white; inferior surface pinkish-vinaceous. Female, Thomasville, No- 

 vember 30, 1903; similar to the specimen described above, except that 

 the dorsal surface is overcast with a pale whitish suffusion and the 

 lateral lobes of the pronotum, the pleura and the genjE and postocular 

 regions of the head are suffused with dull orange-rufous. The only 



