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pale females the dots may have a minute whitish area on each side. The 

 most beautiful of the color phases is one in which the entire dorsal area is 

 rich purplish pink, this being most striking in otherwise green females. 

 The caudal tibiae are light glaucous, often with a pale greenish tinge, or 

 light pink, sometimes the latter proximad and the former distad. 



Typical Specimens Examined, in addition to 44 $ , 45 $ and 12 immatures 

 previously recorded, of which the 41 $ and 38 9- now at hand are designated 

 paratypes. — 95; 24 males, 13 females and 58 immature individuals. 



Georgia: Bainbridge, IX, 5, 1915, (Rehn and Hebard; in undergrowth of 

 Long-Leaf Pine woods near "branch"), 5$, 2$, 5 medium juv. $, 10 

 medium juv. $ . 



Alabama: Dothan, IX, 6, 1915, (Rehn and Hebard; adults rare, imma- 

 tures in moderate numbers in undergrowth of Long-Leaf Pine woods), 

 2$, 1 large juv. $, 2 medium juv. $, 1 large juv. $, 7 medium juv. $. 



Florida: Tallahassee, IX, 2, 1915, (Rehn and Hebard; moderately 

 abundant in luxuriant weeds in fields and woodland near pond, few in 

 waste field), 4#, 6$, 6 juv. $, from small to medium large. Woodville, 

 IX, 1, 1915, (Rehn and Hebard; few in pine woods undergrowth, common 

 in richer vegetation about a sink-hole), 6<£, 2$, 2 medium juv. $, 2 

 medium juv. $. Quincy, X, 27, 1905, (W. A. Hooker), 1$, [U.S.N.M.]. 

 Sopchoppy, IX, 4, 1915, (M. Hebard; undergrowth in Long-Leaf Pine 

 forest), 1# . Carrabelle, IX, 2 and 3, 1915, (Rehn and Hebard; few in 

 moisture loving grasses and plants on the edge of swampy areas) , 3 $ , 10 $ , 

 3 juv. $, 2 juv. $, from small to very large. River Junction, VIII, 31, 

 1915, (Rehn and Hebard; moderately abundant in lush vegetation in 

 stream bottom), 3$, 2$, 2 medium juv. S, 11 medium to small juv. $. 

 De Funiak Springs, VIII, 30, 1915, (M. Hebard; very scarce in gallberry 

 bushes and also in moisture loving plants in Long-Leaf Pine woods), 4 

 medium to small juv. 9- . 



Atypic "A". (PL XVI, figs. 9 and 10.) This condition dif- 

 fers from the typical only in having the disto-ventral angle of 

 the male cerci to different degrees more angulate and produced, 

 thus showing the first step in the transition toward sphenarioides 

 sphenarioides. It occurs in eastern Georgia north of the range 

 of typical sphenarioides apalachee as far as Pembroke, Grove- 

 land, Collins, Vidalia and Dublin, and westward also as far as 

 McRae. 



Atypic "A" Specimens Examined, in addition to 103, 6$ and 2 juvs. 

 previously recorded. — 145; 79 males, 42 females and 24 immature 

 individuals. 



