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fixed character from pelidna, and I follow R. & H. iu making 

 Scudder's name a synonym. The Stenobothrns maculipennis and 

 . propinqnans of Scudder (1862, 458, 461) were placed by their 

 author in his "Catalogue" as synonyms of pelidna. 

 96. ORPHULELLA OLIVACEA (Morse), 1893, 477. Olive Salt Marsh Locust. 



Elongate, slender, compressed. Above usually olive-brown, often pale 

 green, paler brown below; a narrow dark postocular stripe usually ex- 

 tending back along the upper fourth of lateral lobes of pronotum; the 

 black triangular spots on metazona, faint or wanting; tegmina, especially 

 in the green specimens, often with a median row of small nearly conflu- 

 ent dusky spots for one-third to two-thirds their length; wings transpar- 

 ent, their veins dusky; antennae dusky at tips. Vertex triangular, in male 

 with sides strongly raised, acute-angled at apex, angulate near front bor 

 der of eye (Fig. 84, e) ; in female, broader, the apex more obtusely angled. 

 Frontal costa narrower and more deeply sulcate and angulate at junction 

 with vertex, not rounded as in pelidna. Antennae about equal in length to 

 head and thorax. Pronotum with lateral carinae low, converging from in 

 front only to the first transverse sulcus, then distinctly diverging to hind 

 margin which is very feebly rounded; all the carinse cut slightly behind 

 the middle, the metazona two-thirds the length of prozona. Tegmina sur- 

 passing tips of hind femora 2 3 mm. Length of body, $ , 16.5 20, 9 , 21 

 28; of antennae, $, 67, $,6; of tegmina, $, 14 17, 9, 17 21; of hind 

 femora, $, 10 11, 9, 12 14.5 mm. 



Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 25 28 (Morse}. A submaritime spe- 

 cies described from Connecticut and ranging along the ocean bor- 

 der of the coastwise states from Massachusetts to Corpus Christ!, 

 Texas. In Florida it has been recorded only from Pablo Beach, 

 Cedar Keys, Fort Barrancas and Warrington, Aug. 4 15. Morse 

 (loc. cit.) says: "It was locally very plentiful in the salt marshes, 

 its green and olivaceous tints closely matching in color the marsh 

 grasses in which it made its home. The ground beneath was often 

 overflowed at high tide, and offered a retreat to myriads of fiddler 

 crabs, being much wetter and of a wholly different character from 

 the situations frequented by /icHtlim and spcciosa." Later (1904, 

 30) he calls it "a maritime species of austral origin and distribu- 

 tion, ranging from Parien to the Bermudas, and known on our 

 coast from Connecticut to western Florida. It is a halophilous 

 campestrian species found only in salt marshes or along the shores 

 of brackish inlets, often plentiful locally. This species, with its 

 companions Paro.ri/a atlantica and florldana and Orcliclhiunit 

 licr'baceum, are characteristic of the Juncus fringes of the tidal in- 

 lets and pools of the southern coast, equally quick to seek safety 

 in flight, or if hard pressed, to drop downward into the protecting 

 shelter at the bases of the tall, sharp pointed culms." 



