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and very acute suprahumerals. When viewed from above the line of the 

 metopidium is feebly bisinuate exactly as in taurz'na, the middle being 

 slightly convex leaving a sinus at the base of either horn; the suprahumerals 

 slightly recurved. Pronotum well arched above with a distinct semicircular 

 impression: rather short and depressed with a very slender and acute apex 

 which attains the middle of the upper anteapical areole. I^ast ventral seg- 

 ment short with a shallow emargination, either side of which the margin is 

 a little convex. 



Color dark green becoming more or less fulvous in the dried specimen; 

 suprahumerals, a vitta from their base to the humeral angles and the dorsal 

 carina including the attenuated apex rufocastaneous, becoming piceous or 

 black on the tips of the horns and slender apex; Tylus with a brown mark 

 on either side next the rounded apex of the cheeks. 



Described from three females taken at Estero. This species 

 has the aspect of taurina but is readily separated by the char- 

 acters given above. It may be a West Indian species but I can 

 find no description that answers to it at all. It is very distinct 

 from vitulus. 



244. Stictocephala festina Say. 



Crescent City and St. Petersburg. This species seemed to 

 be rare and local. It evidently pertains to the more northern 

 Carolinian fauna. 



245. Stictocephala substriata Walker. 



Abundant everywhere I collected in Florida. In some 

 examples the sternum and legs are concolorous while in the 

 other extreme of variation they are quite broadly spread with 

 black. 



246. Acutalis semicrema Say. 



Another abundant species taken at all stations and exhib- 

 iting every gradation in marking from a uniform pale green to 

 almost entirely black above. 



247. Micrutalis calva Say. 



Generally distributed in the state but less abundant than 

 the preceding and exhibiting the same range in color markings, 

 among which occurs the variety named illinoiensis by Coding. 



248. Telamona monticola Fabricius. 

 Sevenoaks; one example beaten from an oak tree. 



