MORGAN HEBARD 217 



Florida: Ocala, VIII, 17, 1930, (R. H. Beamer), 1$, [Univ. of Kansas]; 

 IX, 19 and 20, 1917, (Rehn and Hebard; moderately common in under- 

 growth, but especially so about fennel and grassy spots), 213, 15$, 1 

 medium juv. 3- Dunnellon, IX, 19, 1917, (Rehn and Hebard; locally 

 moderately numerous on sand flats with Saw Palmetto, Bayberry and 

 scanty grasses), 43,79. Trilby, IX, 16, 1917, (Rehn and Hebard; common 

 in gallberry bushes in undergrowth of cypress bays and other under- 

 growth of Long Leaf Pine forest), 113, 16$. Anona, IX, 17, 1917, (Rehn 

 and Hebard), 13. Indian Beach on Sand Key, IX, 17, 1917, (Rehn and 

 Hebard ; moderate numbers in tall weeds and grasses on inner marshy edge 

 of Key, few in beach vegetation), 93, 5$, 1 medium juv. 3- Tampa 

 (recorded as clara by Rehn and Hebard in 1905), 43, 2$ (small but 

 otherwise similar). St. Petersburg, VIII, 18 to 26, 1931, (Bradley and 

 Knorr), 13. Mulberry, VIII, 27, 1931, (Bradley and Knorr), 13, (slight 

 cereal divergence toward sphenarioides clara). Arcadia, IX, 12, 1917, (Rehn 

 and Hebard; few in Heliotropium polyphyllum on sand bars of Peace 

 River, occasional in Long Leaf Pine woods undergrowth) , 83 , 69, 1 large 

 juv. 3, 1 medium juv. 9, (with stronger cereal divergence toward sphen- 

 arioides clara). Vero, VIII, 23, 1933, (E. R. Helwig), 93, 2$, (same), 

 [A.N.S.P. and Hebard Cm.]. Kelsey City, VIII, 23, 1933, (E. R. Helwig), 

 103, 29, (same), [A.N.S.P. and Hebard Cln.]. 



Atypic "E". (PL XVI, fig. 14.) Size below to above median. 

 Male. Pseudosternite with mesal projection on each side hav- 

 ing a blunt curved outer spine (much like the blunt spine de- 

 veloped in atypic "C" of sphenarioides apalachee but an inner 

 rounded projection indicating closer resemblance to sphenarioides 

 sphenarioides. In other respects much like the latter, but fur- 

 cula scarcely longer than broad and supra-anal plate broader, 

 more as in atypical "D". 



Atypic " E " Specimens Examined. — 51 ; 29 males and 22 females. 



Florida: Lakeland, (G. O. Ainslie), 13, 19, [U.S.N.M.]; IX, 11, 1917, 

 (Rehn and Hebard), 22 3, 179, (and 6 3, 4 9 previously recorded as clara 

 by Rehn and Hebard). 



Aptenopedes sphenarioides clara Rehn 



(PI. XVI, figs. 15 and 16; pi. XVII, fig. 4.) 

 1902. Aptenopedes clara Rehn, Ent. News, xm, p. 14. [ 3 ; Miami, 



Florida.] 

 1917. Aptenopedes sphenarioides clara Hebard, Ent. News, xxvi, p. 407. 



(Great size variation, due to local environmental conditions, noted and 



measurements given for three series.) 



Rehn and Hebard recorded this insect as clara until 1915, 

 when the author placed it as a race of sphenarioides. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., LXTI. 



