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[2. Mermiria macuHpennis, Bruner. (Tab. I. fig. 9, <j .) 



Mermiria macuHpennis, Bruner, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. pp. 54, 55 (1890) \ 

 Mermiria bivittata, Scudd. Proc. Araer. Acad. Arts & Sciences, xxxv. p. 42 (1899) 2 ; Proc. Dav. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. viii. p. 19 (1890) 3 . 



Ilab. North America, Carrizo Springs, Dimmit County, and San Antonio, both in 

 Texas 1-3 (colls. L. Bruner and of U.S. National Museum).] 



[3. Mermiria bivittata, Serv. 



Opsomala bivittata, Serv. Hist. Nat. Ins. Orthopt. p. 589 (1839) l ; Walk. Cat. Dermapt. Salt. 



Brit. Mus. iii. p. 507 (1870) \ 

 Acridium bivittatum, de Haan, Bijdr. Kenntn. Orthopt. p. 143 (1842) 3 . 

 Opomala bivittata, Thomas, Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. v. p. 447 (1865)* ; Syn. Acrid. N. Amer. 



p. 65, fig, 16 (1873) s ; Scudd. Final Rept. U.S. Geol. Surv. Nebr. p. 250 (1872) 6 . 

 Mermiria bivittata, Scudd. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xix. pp. 30, 31 (1877) 7 ; Proc. Amer. Acad. 



Arts & Sciences, xxxv. p. 42 (1899) 8 . 



Ilab. North America 1 " 6 , Las duces (Townsend), Mesilla (Morse), Arizona and New 

 Mexico (Scudder 7 8 ), Texas (Scudder 7 8 , Bruner). 



These records, together with the wide known range of the species, are sufficient 

 evidence to indicate that it is present in portions of Northern Mexico.] 



4. Mermiria intertexta, Scudd. 



Mermiria intertexta, Scudd. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sciences, xxxv. pp. 42, 43 (1899) \ 

 Ilab. North America, Eagle Pass, Texas, on the border of Mexico 1 . 



5. Mermiria neo-mexicana, Thomas. 



Opomala neomexic ana, Thomas, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1870, pp. 77, 78 (1870) l ; Glover, 



Illustr. N. Amer. Eat., Orthopt. t. 16. fig. 10 (1874) 2 . 

 Mermiria neomexicana, Scudd. Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr. ii. p. 262 (1876) 3 ; McNeill, Proc. 



Dav. Acad. Nat. Sci. vi. pp. 206, 207 (1897) \ 

 Mermiria belfragei, Stal, Eecens. Orthopt. i. p. 102 (1873) 5 ; Thomas, Rep. U.S. Geogr. & Geol. 



Surv. W. 100th Merid. v. Zool. pp. 866, 900 (1875) 6 ; Scudd. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & 



Sciences, xxxv. p. 43 (1899) \ 



Hob. North America, New Mexico and Texas 1_7 . — Mexico, Villa Lerdo in Durango 

 (Bruner). 



A specimen taken by the present writer at Villa Lerdo, during the autumn of 1887, 

 but not now in his possession, was determined as this species. 



PAROPOMALA, Scudder. 



Paropomala, Scudder, Psyche, viii. p. 437 (1899). 



General form cylindrical. Head moderately long, the face receding ; vertex between the eyes nearly as broad 

 as their shortest diameter ; plane of lateral foveolse depressed but vertical ; eyes regularly elliptical, 



