794 PR0CEEDIXG3 OF THE ACADEMY OF [DcC, 



pink, below blackish; lower margin of the pronotum very narrowly 

 lined with white; anterior and median femora of the body color; tibiae 

 dull crimson; posterior femora with the lateral face of the body color, 

 darkest above; inferior carina white, superior carina bicolor similar 

 to the tegmina, genicular arches black; posterior tibia? glaucous blue, 

 spines whitish with the tips black. Green phase: male; Thomas ville, 

 November 30, 1903; general color of the upper surface paris green 

 becoming apple green on the sides and under surface; eyes mummy 

 brown finely sprinkled with wood brown; lateral lines practically the 

 same colors as in the female, except that the rosy tint is paler on the 

 pronotum than on the tegmina; abdomen with the median portion 

 dull salmon flanked with pure black, the latter carrying a small white 

 spot at the apical margin of each segment; in other respects similar 

 to the female. 



Brown phase: female; Thomasville, November 30, 1903; general 

 color of the dorsal surface broccoli brown, overcast with an irregular 

 hoary suffusion of ecru drab, this being limited to the median portions 

 of the segments on the abdomen; lateral lines much as in the green 

 phase, but more subdued and the usual pinkish stripe on the tegmina 

 rather brownish; face, eyes, gcnse, lateral lobes of the pronotum, 

 pleura and external faces of the posterior femora, as well as the anterior 

 and median limbs, vandyke brown obscurely scrumbled with broccoli 

 brown ; lower margin of the pronotum and lower carina of the external 

 face of the posterior femora whitish; posterior tibiae maroon. Brown 

 phase: male; Thomasville, November 30, 1903; general color much as 

 in the female, but the hoary suffusion weaker; lateral line well marked 

 and more ecru than pinkish; pronotum with the blackish tint weak; 

 the inferior external carinse of the posterior femora with a broken white 

 line; superior face of posterior femora scrumbled wood brown; an- 

 tennae whitish. Nymph ; November 30, 1903 ; general color wood 

 brown obscurely lined and spotted with mummy brown; upper portion 

 of lateral lobes of the pronotum and postocular region blackish. 



I have always found this species prevalent except during the cold 

 weather of late December, January and the greater part of February. 

 This species is to be found almost everj^vhere in the pine woods, but 

 is more abundant where the wire-grass-grows heaviest near the 

 "branches." The males are very active, springing wdth alacrity and 

 often alighting on weed stalks and vines a foot or more above the 

 ground, where they remain motionless but watchful, ready to spring 

 to another place if approached. The females, being much heavier, are 

 less spry, but nevertheless sometimes difficult to capture. (M. H.) 



