MORGAN HEBARD 



95 



Measurements (in millimeters) of extremes 



Length of Length of Caudal Length of Length of 



body pronotum ^vidth of tegmen caudal 



cf pronotal femur 



disk- 

 Brownsville, Texas 



(8) 24.8-26 3.7-3.9 1.1-1.2 6.7-7.5 12.9-13.8 



Piper Plantation, 



Texas (23) 24.1-26.5 3.5-4 1.1-12 6.8-7.3 12 7-14. S 



Lyford, Texas (2) . . 26-26.1 3.7-3.8 1.2-1.2 7.2-7.3 12.8-13.8 



Tampico, Mexico.. . 25 3.8 1.3 7 14.2 

 Pueblo Viejo, 



Mexico 21 4-25.3 3 3-4 1.2-1 4 6.7-7.7 11.8-13.2 



9 



Lyford, Texas 33.8 5.3 2 7.8 16.7 



Piper Plantation, 



Texas (17) 30.8-34.2 4.8-5.1 1.8-2 6.2-7.8 15.5-17 



Tampico, Mexico 



(2) 32.1-31.5 5.1-5.1 2-2 6.7-7.5 15.2-16 



Pueblo Viejo, Mex- 

 ico 30 5 1.9 6.8 14.8 



In addition to a light l)rown color phase, the following are 

 noted. Male: dorsal surface of head and pronotum, all of teg- 

 niina and caudal femora to distal portions light green, other 

 portions light brown. Female: face and genae, lateral lol^es of 

 pronotum, lateral portions of tegmina and caudal femora to 

 distal portions light green, other portions light ])rown, the dorsal 

 surfaces of the head, pronotum and tegmiua palest. In one 

 brown female from Tampico, Mexico, the tegmina alone are 

 greenish. 



Near Brownsville, Texas, the species was found locally quite 

 numerous in the low, coarse grass growing in openings of the 

 thorny tangle, choking the low-lands near the Rio Grande. 

 The species is not very active and, once found, a series was 

 easily secured. 



This insect was previously known only from the material 

 originally reported by Caudell. Its distri])ution is now found 

 to extend from Mercedes and Lyford, in the Brownsville region 

 of Texas, south to Pueblo Viejo, at the extreme northern ex- 

 tremity of Vera Cruz, on the Gulf of Mexico. 



Specimetis Examined, in addition to a pair i)reviously recordcil: 68; 

 37 males, 21 females and 10 immature individuals. 



Texas: Lyford, Cameron County, VIII, G and 7, 1912, [R. and IL), 2 d". 

 19. Mercedes, Cameron County, II, 1909, (T. D. Urbahns), 1 juv. 9, 

 [U. S. N. M.]. Brownsville, VII, 31 to VIII, 5, 1912, (Hebard), S d", 1 juv. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVIII. 



