SUBFAMILY IV. COXOCEPHALIX.E. 547 



R. & H. (1915a, 53) have made this a synonym of 0. lat'n-aitda 

 Redt. (1891, 504) described from a single female taken at New 

 Orleans, La. This was done without examination of the type of 

 l<:fi<-atida and only by comparison with Redtenbacher's brief de- 

 scription. In this there are several notable discrepancies, when 

 compared with undoubted specimens of 0. pitJclieJlmii, viz.: k 'lobi 

 lateralis prouoti margine postico siuuato." This is not true of 

 puJcJieUuin and R. & H., in their key to females of OrclK'Uniiini sep- 

 arate htticauda from ni gripes by the former having the "caudal 

 margin of lateral lobes gently arcuate ventrad of humeral sinus," 

 whereas in iiif/ripcs it is said to be "sinuate or subsinuate ven- 

 trad." Again, Redtenbacher says: "Elytra femora postica valde 

 superantia, alis multo breviora," whereas in pulcJielluni the teg- 

 mina at most surpass the hind femora 3 4 mm., and are only 3 4 

 mm. shorter than the wings. Finally Redtenbacher in his key 

 separates hiticauda from four other species by its having the 

 "femora postica utrinque spinulosa," while in pulclielhun, as 

 R. & H. admit, "the vast majority have the internal margin un- 

 armed/' What hiticauda was or is I know not nor do I believe 

 any one else can tell without an examination of the type. I have 

 therefore restored the name given by Davis to this grasshopper. 



Of the types of this species Davis wrote : "When seen in life 

 the insect is particularly beautiful and is conspicuous for its bot- 

 tle-green colored tegmina, with a bluish tinge, its lemon-yellow 

 markings and its reddish legs. Its song was a zip, zip, zip ~. ~, ~, 

 -zip, zi]>. zip ~. .:. z, quite a distinguishable song from that of 

 0. ruhjare." 



The range of hiticauda so-called by R. & H., including pulcliel- 

 hun Davis, is given by them (1915a, 54) as "Covering the Atlan- 

 tic Coastal Plain region from north central New Jersey south to 

 southern Florida, westward to New Orleans, La. ; in the eastern 

 states occurring at suitable valley localities in the Piedmont re- 

 gion above the fall line." In Florida it has been recorded from 

 Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville, Ortega, Sanford, Palatka, Detroit, 

 Lakeland and Chokoloskee, most of the records being made under 

 the names nitiduin and pulchellinii. 



McAtee and Candell record (1917) pnl<-Jtclluni Hinder the 

 name hiticauda) from numerous localities about Washington, 

 I). C., and Fox (1917) states that about Tappahannock, Va., it is 

 "occasional in a variety of situations, occurring regularly in tidal 

 and fresh water marshes and pond borders, but the males, at 

 least, spreading in small numbers to upland districts where the 



