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as in fasciatus. Length of body, $, G.I 8, 9, 7.3 9; of tegmina, $ 

 4.35.8, $, 3.1 4. G; of hind femora, $, 4.95.5, $, 5.46.2; of ovipositor, 

 G.2 7.4 mm. 



Moose Jaw, Assiniboia, Aug. 24 (CfindcU}. This small dark 

 form of X. faNc'mtHfi is included in this work on the Ft. William, 

 Ont., record of E. M. Walker (1011, 304) who states that: "The 

 specimens were confined to a small sandy area thinly clothed with 

 grass and weeds. They were very small and the stridnlation was 

 a low continuous trill differing 1 from that of typical faxc'mtitN. It 

 is thus possible that this form is specifically distinct." He also 

 slates (1910, 354) that a series of abort ic us from Aweme, "show 

 great variation in color and length of tegmina and ovipositor. 

 Some individuals approach A~. iinn-iilatus 151. from Indiana in all 

 of these characters and are scarcely distinguishable except by the 

 longer and more numerous hairs of the prouotum, but as a rule 

 the ovipositor is distinctly longer than in X~. inaculatiis." 



Caudell's types were from Moose Jaw where he found them 

 "hopping actively about in the grass in and along the borders 

 of a draw or small hollow in the prairie." Hebard (11)13, 42!)) 

 gives the distribution as "the prairie region of Manitoba, Sas- 

 katchewan and Alberta and the adjacent portions of the Tnited 

 States. Only brachypterous individuals are known." 

 320b. NEMOBIUS FASCIATUS socius Scuclder, 1877, 37. 



Size and form of typical fasciatus. Color same as there, ranging from 

 pale reddish (canus Scu<Me~" fuscous-brown, the dark stripes on occiput 

 often wanting in very pale or very dark specimens. Differs from fasciatus 

 only in having the ovipositor as short as or shorter than the hind femora. 

 "Nearly allied to our common N. vittatus with which it agrees in size, al- 

 though a little slenderer; tegmina, however, much longer and ovipositor 

 proportionally a little shorter." (Scuclder.) 



Lake Okeechobee, Ft. Myers, Lakeland, Sarasota and Dunedin, 

 Fla. (W.8.B.) ; Thomasville, Ga. (Hcbanl) ; Dallas, Tex. (lioll.) 

 About Dimedin both adults and nymphs occur throughout the win- 

 ter among the low grasses and beneath boards and logs along the 

 borders of ponds and low marshy places in open pine woods. Re- 

 corded from numerous localities on the mainland of Florida but 

 not as yet from the southern keys. 



The range of this form, which is so close to X'. fasciatus that it 

 is hardly worthy a distinctive name, extends from North Carolina 

 and Tennessee south throughout Florida, west to Brownsville, 

 Texas and north to Arkansas and Oklahoma, where it merges into 

 typical fasciatus- It appears to be nowhere so abundant as is 

 fasciatus vittatus in the north and macropterous individuals are 



