212 NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



Aptenopedes sphenarioides appalachee new subspecies 



(PI. XVI, figs. 8 to 11.) 



1904. Aptenopedes sphenarioides Morse, Carnegie Inst. Washington, Publ. 

 No. 18, p. 55. [Juvs.; Waycross, Georgia; Live Oak (?), Tallahassee, 

 Carrabelle and DeFuniak Springs, Florida.] 



1905. Aptenopedes sphenarioides Rehn and Hebard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1904, p. 793. [256 specimens, $, $: Thomasville, Georgia; 

 Leon County, Florida. 38 ] 



1907. Aptenopedes sphenarioides Rehn and Hebard (the present race in 

 part), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, p. 299. [Atypic "B": 29 £, 

 11$, 24 immatures; Pablo Beach, Florida.] 



1916. Aptenopedes sphenarioides sphenarioides Rehn and Hebard (the 

 present race in part), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1916, p. 252. [Atypic 

 " A " ; Jesup and Brunswick, Georgia. Atypic " B " : St. Simons Island 

 and Cumberland Island, Georgia; Atlantic Beach, Pablo Beach and 

 Daytona, Florida. Atypic "AB"; Jacksonville, Florida. Typical: 

 Suwanee Creek (= Hopkins), Billys Island and Jordans in Okefenokee 

 Swamp, Homerville, Albany and Bainbridge, Georgia; (?) Live Oak, 

 Florida.] 



1920. Aptenopedes sphenarioides Blatchley (the present race in part), 

 Orth. of Northeastern America, p. 345. [Atypic "B"; Ormond, 

 Florida.] 



From sphenarioides sphenarioides Scudder typical material of 

 this race is distinguished by characters of the male cerci, para- 

 procts and pseudosternite. Its distribution extends across south- 

 ern Georgia to extreme southwestern Georgia, into extreme 

 southeastern Alabama, in adjacent eastern Florida and as far 

 west as DeFuniak Springs. 



Four divisions are present in sphenarioides apalachee which 

 are here considered " typical ", " atypic A ", " atypic B " and 

 " atypic C ". 



Type. — $ ; Thomasville, Florida. November 30, 1903. (M. 

 Hebard). [Hebard Collection, Type No. 1299]. 



Very similar to sphenarioides sphenarioides in all except male genitalic 

 characters. Size medium, form slender for the genus. Face strongly 

 retreating. Pronotum elongate with percurrent medio-longitudinal carina. 

 Tegmina very small, slender, elongate pads with apices rounded, extending 

 across the large tympanum. Furcula represented by stout parallel fingers, 

 longer than broad beyond the thickened areas from which they spring. 

 Supra-anal plate narrowly linguliform, proximad broadly sulcate medio- 



38 Color phases, habitat and habits discussed. 



