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to dark fuscous beyond the base. Pronotum rather roundly con- 

 stricted just in advance of the middle, front and hind borders straight, 

 median and lateral carinse equal and slight; surface punctato- 

 subrugose, the region of the lateral carinte more or less deeply, and 

 narrowly (9), or broadly (d) marked with blackish; both disk and 

 lateral lobes with occasional, irregularly distributed, large blackisli 

 dots, sometimes obsolete. Tegmina three-quarters (cf), or scarcely half 

 (?) as long as the abdomen, fusiform, tapering apically (9) or linear 

 (d), yellowish brown, with a median dusky stripe often broken into 

 alternate blackish and paler spots. Legs dark yellowish brown, the 

 hind femora more or less and variably infuscated ; liind tibiae pale 

 yellowish brown; the spines pale at base, black at tip. Abdomen 

 more or less mottled with brownish yellow and dark fuscous. 



Length of body, d, 13.5 mm., ?, 21.5 mm.; of antennte, d, 7 mm., 

 ?, 6 mm.; of tegmina, d, 6.6 mm., ?, 6 mm,; of hind femora, d, 

 9.4 mm., ?, 12 mm. 



3 c?, 1 ?, Ft. Reed, April 8-11. 



Stenobothrus maculipennis Scudd. 29 cf, 17 9, and 8 pupse 

 taken at Ft. Reed, April 8-]\lay 2, and Jacksonville, May 6. The 

 individuals are considerably larger than those from the north, first 

 described under this name. 



Tomonotus Zimmermanni Sauss. 22 d, i ?, at Ft. Reed 

 and Jacksonville, March 20 - May 6. Appalachicola (Thaxter). This 

 species is not mentioned by Thomas in his Acrididae of North 

 America. 



Chimarocephala viridifasciata (DeGeer) Scudd. 27 d, 11 

 ?, of the type iufuscala; 2 d , 25 ?, of the type virginiana. Both 

 sexes of both forms were taken, as early as March 26, and as late as 

 May 6, Avith the exception of the two virginiana d, which were both 

 taken May 6. Five sixths of the females of both forms were taken 

 after April 21, and two thirds of the d of infuscala after that date ; 

 so that there appears to be no evidence tliat one form is earlier than 

 the other. 11 larvse and pupae were taken at Ft. Reed, April 10-25. 



Hippiscus discoideus (Serv.) Stal. 4 d', 3 ?, were taken at 

 Jacksonville, INIay 6; and three larvas and pupse at Ft. Reed, April 

 5-10. 



Dissosteira Carolina (Linn.) Scudd. A single d was taken 

 on May 6, at Jacksonville; it was taken at Enterprise May 10, by 

 Messrs. Hubbard and Schwarz (No. 426). 



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