194 NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



2. Both sexes with microscopic minute scale-like vestigial tegmina 3 



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

 cidedly robust. Both sexes with caudal tibiae pink. Female lacking 

 pale lateral marginal bands on pronotal disk. Penis very distinctive 

 (PI. XVI, figs. 6 and 7).) Local; on east coast of peninsular Florida 

 opposite Lake Okeechobee robusta new species 



3. Male without blackish brown markings on pronotum. (Form moder- 



ately robust. Caudal tibiae glaucous, in females changing to purplish 

 or pink dorsad (the latter condition rare in the north, usual in the 



south) .) , 4 



Male with the transverse and short lateral sulci of the pronotum 

 strikingly blackish brown. (Form decidedly robust. Caudal tibiae 

 of males deep glaucous, of females dull glaucous becoming purplish 

 pink dorsad. Female lacking pale lateral marginal bands on pro- 

 notal disk. Penis distinctive (PI. XV, figs. 9 and 10).) Local; in 

 central peninsular Florida northwest of Lake Okeechobee. 



nigropicta new species 



4. Female lacking pale lateral marginal bands on pronotal disk. Penis 



very different from type developed in sphenarioides 5 



Female with pale lateral marginal bands on pronotal disk. Penis 

 distinctive (PL XV, figs. 7 and 8), showing much closer agreement 

 with the type developed in sphenarioides than in the otherwise more 

 generally similar species, (the dorsal lobes, however, developed into 

 small specialized horizontal lobes and the dorsal pair of parameres 

 lamellate). All but northern portion of western peninsular Florida. 



hubbelli new species 



5. Lateral pronotal and medio-longitudinal abdominal bands whitish 



(varying to yellowish buff only in occasional specimens of aptera 



coquinae 25 ) 6 



Lateral pronotal and medio-longitudinal abdominal bands orange 

 (sometimes varying individually to buffy). Penis distinctive (PI. 

 XV, fig. 1). Central peninsular Florida aptera aptera Scudder 



6. Dorsal lobes of penis not strikingly bilobate 7 



Dorsal lobes of penis strikingly bilobate (PI. XIV, figs. 4 and 5). 



Lowlands of eastern and southwestern Georgia and northern Florida 

 (except east coastal strip) west as far as Carrabelle. 



aptera borealis new subspecies 



7. Dorsal lobes of penis less chitinous, without prominently projecting 



processes (PI. XIV, figs. 1 to 3). Northeast coast of Florida. 



aptera simplex new subspecies 



Dorsal lobes of penis more chitinous and darkened, with prominently 



projecting processes 8 



26 Note that in hubbelli these markings vary individually from light 

 yellow buff to rich orange. 



