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to be conspicuous under many other environmental conditions. 

 The present species was hitherto known only from the unique 

 female type, taken from under a sign on a live oak on the north 

 border of Brickell's Hammock by the author on February i6, 

 1904.^* 



Allotype: $ ; Brickell's Hammock, Miami, Florida, March 

 5, 1915. (Hebard; under bark of Exothea paniciilata.) 

 [Hebard Collection.] 



Description of Allotype. Very similar in size and form to the type. 

 Pronotum with dorsum transversely very gently arcuate, curving 

 sharply laterad, cephalic and caudal width equal, this dimension slight- 

 ly less than length, lateral outlines of disk weakly convex, cephalic 

 margin weakly concave, caudal margin very weakly convex and nearly 

 straight. As in the female sex, no tegmina or wings are developed. 

 Every portion of the insect is heavily clothed with scales excepting 

 the eyes, cephalic portion of the face, mouth-parts and antennae. Titil- 

 latores represented by minute, elongate projections which are cylin- 

 drical, straight, tapering distad gently to apex which reaches above 

 depressed distal portion of roughly shield-shaped supra-anal plate. 

 Sub-genital plate transverse, with distal margin broadly arcuate. Color 

 pattern distinctive as in the type, with which the allotype agrees in all 

 other characters given in the original description. 



Coloration. As in the type, the series before us shows the four 

 parallel vertical dark bars on the vertical cephalic face of the inter- 

 antennal protuberance, some specimens have these bars unusually heavy 

 but in no case do they fuse. The absence of some of the scales in the 

 type made the normal color pattern, produced by the light and dark 

 scales, indistinguishable. This is found to be constant in the series 

 before us and is illustrated by the accompanying figure of the allotype. 

 We also figure the cephalic aspect of the head of this specimen, as 

 this figure of the type accompanying the original description is very 

 badly out of proportion. These features of coloration are found the 

 same in the five instars of the immature condition before us. 



Measurements {in ntillimeters) 



Lengfth of Length of Caudal width 



body pronotum of pronotum 



Allotype cf , 6.4 1.7 1.6 



Topotypic d",(7)... 6.2-6-7 1.5-1.7 1.4-1.6 



TYPE, $ 6'5 1.5 1.4 



Topotypic $,(6)... 6.-6.7 1.6-1.7 1.6-1.7 



^* Fully described by Rehn and Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1912, p, 219. (1912.) 



^5 With the original description this measurement is given as 5.8 

 mm. as the authors supposed that the head was carried with dorsal 

 surface declivent distad. We find that the head is carried horizontally, 

 with occiput partially concealed by the pronotum but with distal por- 

 tion of occiput, interantennal space and dorsum of vertex, in the same 

 plane with the dorsum of the pronotum. 



