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Nassau, Bahamas ... . (2) 6.6-8.6 2-2.3 2.7-3.2 6.4-9 2.2-2.8 



Cayamas, Cuba (3) 7.7-8.2 2-2.1 2.7-3 7.9-9.3 2.4-2.8 



Little Cayman Island . (3) 8.1-8.2 1.9-2.1 2.6-2.8 7.8-8.3 2.3-2.6 



San Francisco Mts., 



San Domingo (11)7.3-7.7 1.9-2.2 2,6-3 8.3-8.6 2.4-2.7 



Stony Hill, Jamaica. .. (3) 7.7-8.6 1.9-2 2.7-2.9 8.6-8,9 2.3-2.4 



Montego Bay, Jamaica (1) 6.8 1.9 2.6 6.7 2.2 



This series indicates clearly that the size variation in the 

 species, sometimes particularly pronounced in the organs of 

 flight, is due rather to local environmental conditions than to 

 geographic distribution. 



The species shows greater variation than is usual in the species 

 of the present genus, particularly in size, interocular width and 

 in certain features of the genitalia of both sexes. It would seem 

 that very frequently in the Orthoptera, the apparently most 

 widely distributed and most abundant species in a genus shows 

 the greatest variability in that complex, as we find to be true in 

 the present case. 



Ootheca. — From a female from Montego Bay, Jamaica, with 

 ootheca projecting, it is evident that this is carried wdth suture 

 dorsad. Other oothecae of the species from Cayamas, Cuba, are 

 5.3 to 5.8 mm. in length, by 2.4 mm. in width; the dorsal and ven- 

 tral margins are parallel and very slightly curved, the dorsal 

 (suture) being slightly convex with numerous regularly placed 

 minute knob-like projections; the extremities are both slightly 

 concave and weakly produced dorsad, this somewhat greater at 

 the proximal extremity. From one of these oothecae has 

 emerged a Hymenopterous parasite, identified as Hyptia sp., by 

 Ashmead. 



Coloration. — Head cinnamon buff with a broad transverse 

 band of bister ventrad between the eyes, ocellar spots normally 

 located in a pale area and, in consequence, inconspicuous; below, 

 the face is sometimes immaculate, sometimes a few flecks of 

 darker color are apparent, while in individuals of the maximum 

 intensive coloration three nearly equidistant, distinct, narrow 

 and weakly concave transverse bands of the darker color are 

 found: in some Porto Rican specimens of great intensive colora- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLII. 



