168 GENUS CARIBLATTA (oRTHOPTERA) 



band is found on the face, while a fourth, more ventral simikir 

 but much suffused band is weakly indicated in a few specimens."'^ 

 Pronotum with lateral margins transparent with a very faint 

 brownish suffusion, disk ochraceous tawny, varying rarely to 

 warm buff, with a very fine picturing of snuff brown to bister, 

 these markings normally decided, their pattern exactly as in 

 punctulata, in very rare examples of maximum recessive colora- 

 tion they are almost obliterated. Tegmina transparent tinged 

 with ochraceous tawny, rarely with ochraceous buff (recessive), 

 the veins translucent and very slightly darker. Wings, when 

 not vestigial, hyaline, very weakly iridescent. Abdomen with 

 dorsum of general coloration, heavily maculate (except in re- 

 cessive condition) with blackish brown, venter normally heavily 

 maculate with suffused blackish brown mesad, this not extend- 

 ing to subgenital plate, rarely (except in males) entirely pale, 

 ventral surface with a faintly suggested narrow median line of 

 dark brown and lateral dots of the same on each segment (re- 

 cessive), or ventral surface blackish brown with paler lateral 

 margins and narrow distal margin of subgenital plate (intensive, 

 female). Limbs pinkish cinnamon (intensive) to warm buff 

 (recessive), frequentl}^ flecked at the bases of the heavier spines 

 with dark brown. 



The males before us are of average distinctly recessive, the 

 females of average moderately intensive, coloration. 



The known distribution of the present geographic race is de- 

 fined by the records given below and that of one of the types from 

 Louisiana. In the southeastern United States it occurs north- 

 ward and westward as far as Roanoke Island and Raleigh, North 

 Carolina; Swansea, South Carolina; Thompsons Mills, Macon and 

 Warm Springs, Georgia, and Natchez, Mississippi. In peninsular 

 Florida intergradation with lutea minima probably occurs in the 

 south-central section, material from Lakeland being referable to 

 lutea lutea but showing some tendency toward lutea rninima. 

 This latter race is confined in distribution to southern peninsular 

 Florida and the Florida Keys. 



'8 Tho.sc features, produced by recession and intensification in color pattern, 

 are similarly found in pnttrtnlala, but. in that, sjiccies the niaxinium of intensi- 

 fication shows further dc^cided dilTerences from the normal. 



