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Miami. Paratype 17.7 3.1 2.7 9.3 



Miami. Type 20.2 4.7 3.3 11.1 



Miami. Paratype 22.1 4.9 3.7 11.9 



Florida City, on Silver Palm. . . 23.7 5.1 3.9 135 



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Miami. Allotype 27.3 5.8 4.9 13. 



Miami. Paratype 31.8 6.3 5.8 15.5 



Florida City, on Silver Palm. . . 48. 7.8 6.8 17.3 



Royal Palm Key 45.5 7.7 6.8 17.1 



In the vicinity of Miami, however, a series taken at the same 

 place and in the same environment almost always shows very 

 little size variation. 



Of the Florida Keys, only Big Pine Key has an extensive 

 growth of pine flatwoods, Pinus caribaea, and unfortunately only 

 immatures were secured there. The race represented is probably 

 aptera coquinae, but adult males must be secured before this 

 can be definitely stated. 



Specimens Examined, (almost all of which have been previously recorded 

 as aptera) . — 58 ; 26 males, 14 females and 18 immature individuals. 



Florida: Vero, VIII, 23, 1933, (E. R. Helwig), SS, [A.N.S.P. and Hebard 

 Cms.]. Likely, VII, 24, 1934, (R. H. Beamer; Griffith), 4$, 4$, [Univ. 

 of Kansas and Hebard Clns.]. Boca Raton, III, 1, 1916, (M. Hebard; very 

 scarce on dwarf oaks in sand area with scrub pines) , 1 S , 1 $ . Deerfield, 

 III, 1, 1916, (M. Hebard; same as at last locality), 2$ . Miami, I, 17, 1899, 

 (S. N. Rhoads), 1 $, paratype, [A.N.S.P.] ; II, 7, 1904, (M. Hebard; in wire 

 grass in pine woods, Pinus caribaea, to north of town), 3#, paratypes, 1 

 large juv. $ ; III, 3, 1916, (M. Hebard; in Saw Palmetto, Sofkee and wire 

 grass of pine woods, Pinus caribaea), 7$, 2$, type, allotype, paratypes; 

 Southside, III, 6 and 16, 1915, (M. Hebard; same), 39, paratypes, 2 small 

 juv. $ , 1 medium juv. $ ; Southside, III, 27, 1910, (M. Hebard; same), 2$ , 

 1 $ , paratypes, 1 large juv. $ . Cocoanut Grove, VIII, 9, 1930, (L. D. 

 Tuthill), 1 very large juv. $, [Univ. of Kansas]. Florida City (Home- 

 stead), III, 13, 1920, (M. Hebard; on Silver Palms, Coccothrinax argentea, 

 found very scarce while searching for Belocephalus sleighti simplex 



