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bordered ventrad by a band of white of about equal width. Other lateral 

 portions of thorax courge green; the meso-episternum ventrad with a blotch of 

 vinaceous-russet, deepening in color mesad; the meta-episternum occupied by 

 a broad oblique white marking, margined above and below with black. Teg- 

 mina courge green with a broad longitudinal humeral band of congo pink, 

 this much suffused with cameo brown toward the dorsal margin of the lateral 

 field. Abdomen dull green yellow, the dorsal segments margined laterad with 

 white. Cephalic and median limbs courge green, their femora almost com- 

 pletely occupied by very broad bands of salmon-orange to orange-rufous. 

 Caudal femora (usually) showing a broad pregenicular annulus of orange- 

 rufous; dorsal surface courge green with two broad transverse bars of slightly 

 darker shade; external face light hellebore green paling to courge green proxi- 

 mad with ventral margin of same color as ventral surface, bright chalcedony 

 yellow; dorsal half of lateral portions of genicular areas black. Caudal tibiae 

 lumiere blue. The variation in the series of the more important features of 

 coloration is given with the original description. 



Specimens Examined: 23; 9 males and 14 females. 



Florida: Big Bayou near Pensacola, Pensacola and Carrabelle. 



A series of four males and six females, in addition to the type 

 and allotype, bearing the same data, are designated paratypes. 

 The entire series was taken between August 28 and Sept('ml)er 2, 

 1915 by Rehn and Hebard. 



The species is peculiar to very sandy areas; at Big Bayou it 

 was found occasional in a bushy low sand-loving plant, at Pensa- 

 cola very scarce among the undergrowth of scant grasses and 

 sand-loving plants in forest of long-leaf and small sand pines. At 

 Carrabelle very few were taken through the low bushes of the 

 sand dune areas, which are covered heavily with arcnicolous shrubs 

 and bushes and some scrubby pine and oaks. Only with particu- 

 lar effort was it possible to secure the series. Heavy beating was 

 found to be the most productive method. 



Hesperotettix osceola'^ new species (Plate \'I1I, fig. lO.) 



This species is closely related to //. (icnnnicitUt, here described, 

 but is readily separated by the very al)breviate tegiiiina which in 

 length average near that of the pronotum. Additional features 

 of difference are: the normally iuutowcm' dark iiKuking of the 

 lateral lobes of the pronotum, with white marginal marking ven- 

 trad usually not reduced and the unicolorous dorsal surfaces of 

 the caudal femora. 



" War chief of the Seminole Indians in Florida. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLIV. 



