1904.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 793 



This species is common in the corn fields durins; warm weather. 

 (M. H.) 



Paroxya atlantioa Scudder. 



A series of thirteen specimens were taken at Thomasville and Tyty 

 Plantation in Jiuie, August, October and December. The males agree 

 very well ^^■ith two specimens of that sex, one from Ormond, Florida, 

 the other from Florida without further data. 



Found along the branches. (M. H.) 



Paroxya floridiana (Thomas). 



This marsh-loving species is abundant at Thomasville in late summer 

 and fall, and is represented by a Series of one hundred and sLxty-five indi- 

 viduals, taken in July, August, September and December. Consider- 

 able variation in color is exhibited by this assemblage, as is usual in 

 the species, but the extremes are connected by numbers of intermedi- 

 ates. 



Found in great abundance along all streams and in all damp spots 

 during the warm weather. I took quite a series of tattered specimens 

 of this species in a sheltered spot along the edge of a branch in Decem- 

 ber, 1903. (M. H.) 



Aptenopedes sphenarioides Scudder. 



This beautiful and common species is found usually in the pine woods 

 among the dead needles and wire-grass. The series comprises two 

 hundred and fifty-six specimens, about ecpially divided between the 

 sexes. The months represented by the material are January, Febru- 

 ary, March, April, June, August, September, October, November and 

 December. The species was observed in Leon county in the latter 

 part of March. Some individuals possess but one tegmen, and in a 

 few individuals both tegmina are missing. This latter condition ap- 

 pears to be abnormal, as the specimens are otherwise inseparable, 

 and are cpiite distinct from a specimen of aptera from Miami, Florida. 

 After comparing the types of A. clara Rehn^ with individuals of 

 sphenarioides, the former is seen to be immediately distinguishable by 

 the peculiar cerci. Two color phases are present, one purplish-brown, 

 the other a rich paris green. The following notes have been made from 

 living adult specimens. Green phase: female; Thomasville, November 

 30, 1903; general color paris green, on the under surface becoming pale 

 and on the sides of the abdomen suffused with whitish; eyes mummy 

 brown; antennae dull crimson, infuscate apically; lateral line on the 

 pronotum and tegmina composed of two colors, above peach blossom 



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