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found have but recently matured, as their elytra are still soft and they 

 haven't acquired their full power of flight. 



Schistocerca alutacea rubiginosa Harris. 



La Grange, Sept. 12, i male; Miami, Sept. 22, i male. 2 females. 



Schistocerca obscura Fab. 



La Grange. Sept. 10. i male; IMiami. Sept. 22. i female. 



Schistocerca damnifica calidior R. and H. 



La Grange, Sept. 9, 11, 12, 5 males, 2 females; Miami. Sept. 22, 

 I female. 



Eotettix signatus Scudd. 



La Grange, October, i female (Cbaudoin). 



Melanoplus rotundipennis Scudd. 



La Grange. Sept. 9. 10. 12. 13. 4 males. 4 females. 



Melanoplus keeleri Thomas. 



La Grange, Sept. 9, 10, 11, 12. 5 males, 5 females; Miami, Sept. 



22, 23, 2 males, I female. 



Paroxya atlantica Scudd. 



La Grange. Sept. 11, 13, 3 males; Miami. Sept. 23, 24, 25, 2 males, 

 I female; Cocoanut Grove, Sept. 14. i male. 



Paroxya atlantica paroxyoides Scudd. 



Big Pine Key. Sept. 19, 20, 21, 3 males, 4 females; Key West, 

 Sept. 16, 18, 9 males, 8 females. 



Aptenopedes sphenarioides Scudd. 



La Grange, Sept. 9, 11, 12. 4 males. 4 females. 



Aptenopedes clara Rthn. 



Miami. Sept. 22, 25, 3 males, i female; Ocean Reach, Miami, Sept. 



23, I male, i female; Cocoanut Grove, Sept. 14, i nymph; Big Pine 

 Key, Sept. 19, i male, 2 females, 3 nymphs; Key West, Sept. 16, i 

 male, i female, i nvmph. 



Aptenopedes aptera Scudd. 



La (irange, Sept. 9, 10, 11 males, 18 females, 2 female nymphs; 

 Miami, Sept. 22, 25, 5 males, 3 'females; Cocoanut Grove, Sept. 14, 

 I female. This species is active at night, when it is no uncommon 

 sight to see several of the grasshoppers devouring the leaves of the 

 scrub palmetto into which they make half-moon shaped cuts eating 

 down to the midrib. 



