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grass green Melainpsalta. though of quite a distinct species, in Texas, Indian 

 Territory, Kansas and Colorado has confused the matter. Prof. Uhler con- 

 sidered the Florida insect narrower than the western one, but the considerable 

 series examined does not confirm this. The Florida form, however, does differ 

 from the dark specimens from Southern Pines in the Sand Hill region of North 

 Carolina in having shorter and broader wings in proportion to the size of 

 the body. 



Measurements in Millimeters. 



Male Type. Female Allotype. 



Length of body 13 13 



Width of head across eyes 4 4 



Expanse of fore wings 33 32 



In addition to tlie type and allotype the following green examples 

 have been examined : 



Florida. — Rye, Manatee Co.. May 12, 1919, female; May 15, 1919, 

 male; May 28, 1919, male and female; June 10, 1919, male; July 9. 

 1919, female (all collected by Joseph Lienhart). Gulfport, June, 1915, 

 male, and 1915. female (A. G. Reynolds). St. Petersburg, August, 

 1915. male and two females (Ludwig). Lakeland, May 5, 1912, 

 female, and May 8, 191 2, two females in open woods on low vege- 

 tation (W. T. Davis). Jacksonville, July i, 1913, collection H. L. 

 Johnson. Live Oak, August 10, 1903, male, collection A. P. Morse. 

 Cleveland, April, male (C. P. Benedict), collection Staten Island Inst, 

 of Arts and Sciences. The following are in the collection Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences of Philadelphia: — Enterprise, April 20, female; Jackson- 

 ville, August 25, 191 1, female (Rehn and Hebard). Both of these 

 specimens are green with indistinct dark marks. 



In his Observations on some Hemiptera taken in Florida in the 

 spring of 1908, Bulletin Buffalo Society Natural History, IX, p. 184, 

 1909, Mr. Edw. P. Van Duzee states: "One tiny male was beaten 

 from a small tree of a broad-leaved oak at Tampa. This specimen 

 made a surprisingly loud noise for so small an insect. It is pale 

 green, almost immaculate and measures scarcely 12 mm. to the tip 

 of the closed elytra." 



Georgia. — Spring Creek, Decatur Co., June, 191 1, male (J. Chester 

 Bradley), collection Cornell University. Four typical male calliope 

 and three females were also taken in July, 1912, at Spring Creek by 

 Prof. Bradley, as previously noted. Spring Creek, July, 1912, female 

 floridcusis ( C. S. Spooner), Spooner collection. 



