216 NORTH AMERICAN MELANOPLI (ORTHOPTERA) 



Aptenopedes sphenarioides sphenarioides Scudder 



(PI. XVI, figs. 12 to 14.) 

 1877. Aptenopedes sphenarioides Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



xix, p. 84. [ 2 , 40 $ ; Fort Reed, Florida.] 

 1877. Aptenopedes rufovittata Scudder (in part), Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 



Hist., xix, p. 85. [Juv. $ ;« Fort Reed, Florida.] 



Important features for this race are as follows. Average size 

 small for the species, close to that of our Thomasville, Georgia 

 series of sphenarioides apalachee here described. Male. Fur- 

 cula heavy, almost parallel and even more elongate than in 

 typical sphenarioides apalachee, being over twice as long as 

 broad. Supra-anal plate narrow, with a decided proximo-lateral 

 tooth. Paraprocts simple, unarmed. Cerci with apical portion 

 not elongate but definitely falcate. Pseudosternite with a lamel- 

 late rounded process, the dorso-external portion of which is 

 slightly produced dorsad and curved inward to its sharply 

 rounded apex. 



Specimens Examined. — 26; 16 males, 9 females and 1 immature individual. 



Florida: Gotha, X, 1901, (H. Nehrling), 1£, 2$, [A.N.S.P.] Kissimmee, 

 IX, 9 and 10, 1917, (Rehn and Hebard; very few in undergrowth of cypress 

 bays, moderate numbers about their edges on wet prairie), 15 #, 79, 1 

 large juv. $ . 



Atypic "D". Compared with sphenarioides sphenarioides this 

 condition differs as follows. Size large to very large. Male. 

 Furcula decidedly smaller, divergent. Supra-anal plate broad. 

 Cerci and paraprocts similar, the latter, however, showing a slight 

 rounded elevation beneath the cerci. Pseudosternite showing a 

 large irregularly knobbed process, evidently a development from 

 the typical for this race but much more thickened and irregular. 



Atypic " D " Specimens Examined. — 139 ; 79 males, 56 females and 4 

 immature individuals. 



40 The male from Fort Reed, Florida, figured by Scudder in 1897 (Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xx, pi. 26, fig. 10) and at the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, is here selected single type. The female from Jacksonville, 

 Florida, then recorded, is probably representative of sphenarioides apala- 

 chee, atypic " A " toward " B ", here discussed under that race. 



41 This specimen was selected as type by Rehn and Hebard in 1916, 

 rufovittata consequently falling as a synonym. The males described as 

 rufovittata, however, are representative of aptera aptera Scudder. 



