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Georgia) localities, when compared with the length of the same 

 in the individuals from northern Florida and southern Georgia. 

 The general size and length of the pronotum and caudal femora 

 show no geographic correlation in their variation. The Billy's 

 Island individuals of both sexes, however, represent the optimum 

 development of the species. 



Biological Notes.— This striking species is chiefly an inhabitant 

 of pine and mixed pine and oak woods, where it lives among the 

 dead leaves in the undergrowth of low bushes and in wire grass. 

 Individuals jump with considerable agility considering their 

 bulk and are capable of defending themselves vigorously with. 

 their powerful jaws. The earliest exact record is June 9 at 

 Lake City, Florida, while adults and immature specimens from 

 Billy's Island, Georgia are labelled June and an adult from 

 Bainbridge, Georgia was taken between June 7 and 23. The 

 latest date for adults is October 15 to 16, at Crestview, Florida. 

 The Jacksonville immature example taken in May, as well as 

 that from Fort Reed taken in April, seems to indicate that the 

 species is always immature on those dates. 



Distribution.— Th& Coastal Plain and the adjacent portions of 

 the Piedmont region from North Carolina (exact locaUty not 

 known) south to north-central Florida (Fort Reed and Merritt), 

 west to western Florida (Crestview) and inland as far as Currahee 

 Mountain and Warm Springs, Georgia. It ranges vertically 

 from sea-level to as high as 1700 feet in favorable locahties. 



Specimens Examined: 47; 21 c?', 20 9,3 juv. o", 3 juv. 9 • 



Florence, South Carolina, IX, 6, 1911, (R. & H.; in short-leaf pine forest), 



1 9. 



MagnoHa, South Carolina, IX, 5, 1911, (H.; in long-leaf pine woods), 1 9 . 



Currahee Mountain, Georgia, 1700 feet elevation, VIII, 5, 1913, (H.; in 

 undergrowth of short-leaf pine woods), 1 9 • 



Warm Springs, Georgia, VII, 31, 1910, (J. C. Bradley), 1 9, [Ga. State 

 Cln.]. 



Sandfly, Georgia, IX, 3, 1911, (R. & H.; taken on ground or climbing up 

 in weeds along edge of forest of gray-bark pine), 2 cf, 1 9 . 



Billy's Island, Okeefenokee Swamp, Georgia, VI, 1912, IX, 1 to 16, 1913, 

 (J. C. Bradley), 11 cf , 4 9,1 juv. d", 1 juv. 9 , [Cornell Univ.]. 



Spring Creek, Georgia, VI, 7 to 23, 1911, (J. C. Bradley), 1 d", [Ga. State 

 Chi.]. 



Crestview, Florida, X, 15 to 1(5, 1914, (Lutz and Watson), 1 9, [A. M. 

 N. H.]. 



