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b. Color largely green ; the discal area of tegmina with, or without, 

 dark soots. 

 c. Posterior femora punctate, and with all the carinae nigro-serrate. 

 Hind tibiae armed with 11 or 12 spines on outer side (San Leo- 

 pold, Central Brazil) SCabripes Stal. 



c^. Posterior femora nearly smooth, only partially nigro-punctate on 

 the carinse. Hind tibias armed with 13 to 16 spines on outer 

 row. 

 d. Larger and more robust (36, cf, 51 9 mm) : the disk of tegmina 

 provided with a row of prominent dark subquadrate spots. 

 Hind femora rather robust basally. The tibiae 13 or 14 



spined laevipes Stal. 



(P. Smaller and slenderer (30 cJ*, 40 9, mm.) Disk of tegmina 

 immaculate or only showing traces of the discal spots. Some- 

 times with the body and tegmina more or less infuscated. 

 Hind femora slender. The tibiae 15 to 16 spined. (San Paulo, 



Brazil) gracilis n. sp.* 



b"^. Color brownish testaceous ; the discal quadrate spots of tegmina 

 very regular regolaris n. sp. 



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Notes on some Florida Orthoptera. 



By a. N. Caudell, Washington, D. C. 

 During the month of March of the present year Dr. Dyar 

 and I traveled in Florida. Our time was so completely taken 

 up in collecting and rearing mosquitoes that we had little time 

 for making general collections of insects. A few Orthoptera, 

 as well as a small number of other insects, were however taken, 

 and the Orthoptera are here noted for the records, a couple of 

 which are new for the State, and a few notes on habitats and 

 variation. There were about one hundred and fifty specimens 

 comprising twenty-seven species as follows : 



Anisolabis azteca Dohm. 



One pair taken in early March under bark of live oak at 

 Jacksonville. 



Enrycotis floridana Walk. 



Many specimens of this large roach were taken uiider pal- 

 metto leaves lying on the ground at New Smyrna. One speci- 



* This third undescribed South American locust is contained in a col- 

 lection received some time ago from the museum located at San Paulo, 

 Brazil. Its chief characteristics are given in the synoptic table. 



