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longitudinally, laterad concave. Cerci short, stout, simple, truncate distad 

 with dorso-distal angle broadly rounded and ventro-distal angle nearly as 

 much so. Paraprocts large, each armed beneath the cercus with a stout 

 elongate tubercle. Penis with proximal portion briefly tubular produced, 

 from which project the four minute, straight, adjacent, elongate, erect 

 parameres of which the first pair are very delicate with truncate apices, 

 the second pair shorter, narrower and with convex apices. 39 Pseudosternite 

 armed mesad on each side with a slender thorn-like curved spine, its apex 

 acute, its base simple. 



Allotype. — $ ; same data as type but taken December 26, 

 1903. [Hebard Collection]. 



Decidedly larger and more robust than male and more cylindrical. 

 Fastigium somewhat more produced than in the other species of the genus, 

 from females of which it may be distinguished by the presence of very 

 small but readily visible tegmina, except those of robusta in which species 

 similar tegmina are developed. 





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Thomasville, Ga. (41) 16. to 18.2 3.3 to 3.8 2.2 to 2.4 3.2 to 3.8 8.7 to 9.2 

 Tallahassee, Fla 19.8 42 2S 4.4 102 



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 Thomasville, Ga. (38) 22. to 25.5 4.2 to 5. 3.8 to 4.2 3.2 to 4.4 10.8 to 12.2 

 Tallahassee, Fla 28.6 5.7 4.9 4.8 13.9 



The green and brown color phases were discussed fully by Rehn and 

 Hebard in 1904. The post-ocular pale line is very straight, defining the 

 pronotal disk from the lateral lobes and including the dorsal half of the 

 tegmina; it is buffy or faintly pinkish and is margined below with a narrow 

 brown line (naturally least conspicuous in dark brown individuals). A 

 striking feature is the pale (in dark specimens) or blackish (in pale speci- 

 mens) dot caudad on each side of the abdominal tergites; in the males 

 longitudinal but slightly oblique dark streaks are often present crossing the 

 tergite to these dots, the intervening median area often suffused, while in 



39 The penis is similar in all the races of sphenarioides. That of hvbbelli 

 is much nearer this type than any other species of the genus. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, LXII. 



