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spicuous. Basally there are obscure alternate lighter and darker 

 shade lines ; exteriorly there is a bluish band which in the male tends 

 to form an oval spot or mark. Beneath yellowish brown crossed by 

 brown strigillations which tend to become massed into a darker sub- 

 marginal shading. 



Expands, 1.00-1.80 inches=40-45 mm. 



Habitat. — Florida : Chokaloskee in July. 



Four males and two females are before me, all save one male from 

 Doctor .Ottolengui's collection. There are others from various Cen- 

 tral and South American points in the Schaus collection, U. S. 

 National Museum, and there is no doubt that this is distinctly a sub- 

 tropical and tropical form. It is probable that all the specimens 

 come from one source originally, and that it is from one of those 

 localities that receives southern visitors or has really a subtropical 

 element in its fauna. Guenee describes it from Brazil, with the 

 addition of a doubtful specimen from "Am. Sept.''' Walker records 

 the British Museum example from Santo Domingo. 



The females are darker than the males, less conspicuously marked 

 and obviously strigillate. The males tend to the creamy gray type 

 and to a form which has the blue area in secondaries almost ocellate 

 in type. 



The spinulation of the middle tibia is well marked. The sexual 

 tufting in the male is very conspicuous and the mass of specialized 

 scales relatively enormous. 



The sexual structures are very characteristic in both sexes. In the 

 male the harpes are not strikingly dissimilar; but the supra-anal 

 plate is prolonged posteriorly into a flat plate, from the lower side of 

 which comes the slender, corneous uncus. In the female there are 

 two small, slightly asymmetrical plates on the posterior margin of the 

 terminal segment, and at the upper "angle of the junction of these two 

 plates is the opening to the copulatory pouch. 



PHffiOCYMA FICTILIS (Guenee). 



1852. Homoptera fictilis Guenee, Spec. Gen.. Xoct., Ill, p. 10. 

 1852. Homoptera guadulpensis Guenee, Spec. Gen., Noct., Ill, p. 10. 

 1857. Homoptera fictilis Walker. C. B. Mus., Het., XIII, p. 1063. 

 isr>7. Homoptera guadulpensis Walker. C. B. Mus., Het., XIII, p. 1063. 



A rather light gray brown in the male, deeper and more reddish 

 in tinge in the female. Collar with a black median line. Thoracic 

 tufts flattened and explanate or somewhat wing-like in character. 

 Basal abdominal tufts also flattened and very broad: other dorsal 

 tuftings small. Primaries very even in color, without darker areas 

 or strong contrasts. Basal line indicated by geminate costal spots 

 in some specimens. T. a. line geminate, obscure, very oblique. Or- 

 bicular small, punctiform, often lost. Reniform more or less com- 



