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The natural sequence and range of the species and races is 

 as follows: 24 



aptera simplex new subspecies. Northeast coast of Florida. 



aptera borealis new subspecies. Lowlands of eastern and southwestern 



Georgia and northern Florida (except narrow northeast coastal areas), 



as far west as Carrabelle. 

 aptera aptera Scudder. Central peninsular Florida (except southwestern 



area). 

 aptera saturiba new subspecies. Xeric sandy areas in northeastern central 



peninsular Florida. 

 aptera coquinae new subspecies. Southwestern peninsular Florida (and 



probably Big Pine Key). 

 hubbelli new species. Western peninsular Florida (except northeastern 



area) . 

 nigropicta new species. Xeric sandy areas northwest of Lake Okeechobee 



in peninsular Florida. 

 robusta new species. Xeric sandy areas near coast east of Lake Okeecho- 

 bee in penisular Florida. 

 sphenarioides apalachee new subspecies. Southwestern Georgia, extreme 



southeastern Alabama and adjacent Florida to Gulf Coast, (atypic in 



lowlands of southeastern Georgia and northeastern Florida). 

 sphenarioides sphenarioides Scudder. Central peninsular Florida. 

 sphenarioides clara Rehn. Southern peninsular Florida and Florida Keys. 



Key to the Species of the Genus Aptenopedes 



1. Form comparatively robust, female cylindrical but blunt cephalad. 

 Male subgenital plate broader, without proximo-lateral sulcus on each 

 side. Male with inner flaps of subgenital plate folding in a less 

 complex manner and no conspicuous inner caudal marginal tissue 

 developed. (Male cerci simple, not showing striking differentiation. 



Male paraprocts simple.) 2 



Form definitely more slender, female more slenderly cylindrical and not 

 nearly as blunt cephalad. Male subgenital plate very narrow, with 

 a nearly vertical proximal sulcus on each side. Male with inner flaps 

 of subgenital plate folding in a complex manner and a conspicuous 

 inner triangular caudal marginal tissue also present on that plate. 

 (Both sexes with small, narrow, lateral, pad-like tegmina. Both 

 sexes with postocular bands margining pronotal disk and continued 

 on tegmina. Male cerci showing striking racial differentiation. Male 

 paraprocts simple or bearing a tubercle. Penis simple, with four 

 minute adjacent erect apices of parameres projecting. Caudal tibiae 

 pale; glaucous, greenish or pink, sometimes light pink proximad and 

 light glaucous distad.) Races of sphenarioides 9 



24 See also map on plate XVII. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., LXII. 



