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and represent two color phases, brown and green forms. These forms 

 may be sexual as all the males are of the brown type and the females 

 of the green, but it is hardly safe to assume this to be true on the 

 amount of material in hand. The base color of the dorsum in the 

 male varies from raw sienna to vandyke brown, the legs in all the 

 specimens being greenish proximad, shading into olive or decided 

 brownish distad. The lateral yellowish stripe is prominent in all the 

 males, becoming whitish on the abdomen and extending to the base of 

 the cerci. In the female this stripe is usually less prominent, and in one 

 specimen is almost absent. 



Aside from the above records this species has been recorded from 

 Cedar Keys, Capron and Biscayne, Florida. 



Anisomorpha buprestoides (Stoll). 



Four males and three females from Pablo Beach, August 12 and 13, 

 four males and six females from San Pablo, August 13, and one female 

 from Gainesville, August 16, comprise the series of this species. Except 

 for a Pablo Beach specimen taken in open palmetto scrub, all are from 

 undergrowth in pine woods. A large part of the specimens were taken 

 in coitu, and in one case two pairs and a single individual were taken 

 from one plant. 



From the material in hand it does not appear possible to separate 

 two species, for while typical female specimens of what CaudelP 

 calls ferruginea (Palisot) are in the series from San Pablo and a number 

 of the others are true buprestoides, specimens from Gainesville and 

 Pablo Beach connect the two extremes, the pale ferruginea and the 

 strongly trilineate buprestoides. All the males collected are unquestion- 

 ally true buprestoides. A pair from Osprey, Manatee County, Florida, 

 in the Academy collection approach the pale type. 



AORIDID^. 



Nomotettix oristatus Scudder. 



This species is represented by seven males and one female from 

 Pablo Beach, August 12 and 13, one male and one female from San 

 Pablo, August 13, and seven males, four females and two nymphs from 

 Gainesville, August 16 and 17. 



In the region examined this species appears to have little preference 

 for one particular environment, as the Pablo Beach series contains 

 specimens taken in undergrowth in open pine woods, on damp sand, 

 in palmetto scrub and in grass. The San Pablo specimens were taken 

 in pine woods undergrowth, and the Gainesville series in the same 

 character of surroundings except one from the edge of a sink-hole. 



^ Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, pp. 880, 882. 



