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dorsal pair of parameres more enlarged, broader, particularly 

 distad, and not at all wedge-shaped in dorsal aspect. 



Females are virtually indistinguishable from large females of 

 aptera borealis. 



One of the topotypic males, originally recorded as rufovittata, 

 has been loaned for examination through the kindness of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. It is slightly smaller than 

 the average in our series, agrees closely in all features here 

 considered diagnostic for the race, and is intensive in coloration, 

 with pronotal and medio-longitudinal abdominal bands broad 

 and zinc orange. 



Specimens Examined. — 70; 23 males, 37 females and 10 immature 

 individuals. 



Florida: Ocala, IX, 19 and 20, 1917, (Rehn and Hebard; moderately 

 common in areas of oak shoots in sandy pine flatwoods) , 3 $ , 3 $ . Dun- 

 nellon, IX, 18 and 19, 1917, (Rehn and Hebard; moderately common in 

 rolling deforested country with thick undergrowth of Saw Palmetto, Bay- 

 berry and oak shoots but very few grasses) , 10 $ , 18 $ , 3 large to moder- 

 ately large juv. 9. Gotha, X, 1901, (H. Nehrling), 1$ (recorded as 

 aptera), [A.N.S.P.L Fort Reed, IV, 10 to 21, (J. H. Comstock), paratype 

 of rufovittata, [Mus. Comp. Zool.L Trilby, IX, 16, 1917, (Rehn and 

 Hebard; moderately numerous particularly in Saw Palmetto thickets and 

 other dense undergrowth in open), 5$, 3$, 1 small juv. $, 1 large and 1 

 medium small juv. $. Lakeland, IX, 11, 1917, (Rehn and Hebard), 3<£, 

 3 $ , 1 large juv. $ , 3 medium juv. $ . 



Where both aptera aptera and aptera borealis occur, inter- 

 gradation is to be expected. Females may be indistinguishable, 

 but in the present race they more often show the dorsal surface 

 of the caudal tibiae purplish or pink. 



It is probable that aptera aptera is limited in distribution to 

 a comparatively small portion of central peninsular Florida. 



Aptenopedes aptera saturiba 31 new subspecies (PL XV, figs. 2 and 3.) 

 This race is described from a series secured in a sandy oak 

 scrub area at DeLeon Springs, to the east of the St. Johns River, 

 in the northeastern portion of central peninsular Florida. With 

 it were found Hesperotettix osceola Hebard (also recorded from 

 Ocala) and Melanoplus adelogyrus Hubbell (also known and 



31 Aboriginal inhabitants of the region in which this race occurs. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, LXII. 



