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and 19 females from the same locality may be considered para- 

 types. 



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Coloration. Ochrac«o«u bttlT to apricot buff in general coloration. 

 The anml fields of the tcgmiiia are lunally immaculate, occasionally 

 weaUy washed with white, rarely weakly speckled with darker buS 

 in tpedmcns of darkest coloration. The discoidal and marginal fields 

 of the tegmitta are of the general coloration, usually much suffused 

 with a speckling of darker buff, these markings concentrating to form 

 two weakly defined darker bands. The pronotum is ixirmally greatly 

 sofftised with white except along the lateral borders of the dorsum 

 and on the dorso-caudal p4>rtions of the lateral lobes with the char- 

 .-)^trri^tic Small median depression very dark. The head is heavily 

 MiiItMcd with white except for two narrow post-ocular bands. An- 

 tennae and limbs suffused with white, with two conspicuous dark 

 bands on the caudal femora and the genicular areas of the same dark 

 buffy. Inner faces of caudal femora yellowish, heavily twice banded 

 with black but with genioalar areas not at all or but little darkened. 

 Candal tibiae scarlet, this color fading to white near the proximal 

 r ' Wings with proximal portion marguerite yellow individual- 



ly to reed yellow, margined distad with a broad continuous 



black liand. this not interrupted normally except very briefly before 

 the elongate spur. Remaining distal portion of wings hyaline with tip 

 often weakly suffused with black. Immature individuals are even 

 more heavily saffnsed with white but with color pattern (darker nar- 

 row post-ocular bars, margining of disk of pronotum and hands of 

 caudal femora) strongly defined. 



The species was found widely distributed but few in num- 

 bers evcr)where along the middle and upper ocean beaches at 

 Miami Beach. Individuals were encountered without excep- 

 tion on loose sand cither along the landward border of the 

 niitlille beach or less often immediately back of this in areas 



•Of this series the two largest specimens were taken in September. 



