MORGAN HEBARD 373 



It is clear that the size differences and degree of tegminal and wing reduc- 

 tion is a matter of individual variation in the present species, showing no 

 geographic correlation. 



Head cinnamon-buff with a faintly greenish tinge; dorsal surface darker, 

 bister, with a moderately broad postocular bar of shining blackish brown on each 

 side, this bar narrowly margined dorsad with cinnamon-buff. Pronotum with 

 disk bister, narrowly somewhat paler along lateral margins cephalad; lateral 

 lobes dorsad with the broad postocular bar continued to the principal sulcus, 

 paling in its ventral portion, with ventral margin irregular, remaining portions 

 of lateral lobes tawny olive, paling ventrad. Tegmina with dorsal field 

 pale, avellaneous; lateral field suffused with bone brown, with a number of 

 darker solid flecks of bone brown. Ventral surface of thorax and all of ab- 

 domen olive-ocher, the abdomen with a very small suffusion of shining black- 

 ish brown, on each side before the cereal bases. Cerci and immediate apex 

 of subgenital plate suffused with prout's brown. Cephalic and median 

 limbs old gold, weakly suffused and obscurely flecked with brown. Caudal 

 femora with dorsal surface cinnamon brown, with a proximal area, two bands 

 and genicular areas of chestnut brown; external pagina with suffusions of 

 dark chestnut brown on distal and median portions, these the continuation 

 of the dorsal bands, the remaining areas buckthorn brown paling to antimony 

 yellow along the ventral margin; ventro-external surface saccardo's olive, 

 except for a pregenicular buffy area, with a series of blackish flecks bordering 

 the carina forming the ventral boundary of the external pagina; ventro- 

 internal surface and ventral portion of internal surface vinaceous-rufous, 

 except for a pregenicular buffy area. Caudal tibiae brown proximad, with a 

 small blackish area, followed by a broad buffy annulus, the remaining portions 

 of the proximal half buffy, suffused with brown, this shading into carnelian 

 red dorsad and internally and apricot buff externally in distal half; spines 

 black, spurs buffy with black tips. 



Intensification and recession of color is developed to a moderate degree. 

 The palest specimens have the dark areas considerably weaker and more 

 reduced, the postocular bar very weak on head and extremely narrow on lat- 

 eral lobes of pronotum, the dorsal surface of the head, pronotum and teg- 

 mina tawny olive. 



In the darkest specimens the pale and dark areas of the caudal femora are 

 much more contrastingly colored and clearly defined. In the series at hand 

 occasional specimens have the dorsal field of the tegmina supplied with a few 

 dark flecks, but the species may be said to average more solidly colored, with 

 less flecking and mottling, than p. viola. 



Specimens Examined: 87; 43 males, 43 females and 1 immature individual. 



Tennessee: Memphis, IX, 16, 1915, (Hebard), 2^,4^. 



Mississippi: Greenville, IX, 14, 1915, (Hebard), 2 d\ 1 d". Strickton, 

 IX, 12, 1915, (Hebard), 15 d 1 , 9 9, type, allotype and par aty pes. Hatties- 

 burg, IX, 11, 1915, (Rehn and Hebard), 10 d 71 , 11 9 . Natchez, IX, 13 and 

 14, 1915, (Rehn), 9 <?, 8 9. 



Louisiana: Lafayette, VIII, 9, 1915, (Rehn and Hebard), 5 d% 10 9, 

 1 juv. 9 . 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVI. 



