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and Pipestone, Minn., to Colorado, Texas and Mexico. East of 

 that river it has been recorded from New York, New Jersey, Mary- 

 land, Virginia, Georgia and Illinois, but Caudell has shown (1918) 

 that the majority of these records are probably based on individ- 

 uals of his Manomcra Watclilci/l, a species very closely resembling 

 D. rdici. The eastern limits of the range of vclici cannot, there- 

 fore, be given with certainty, but it has been taken by Somes at 

 Memphis in the northeastern corner of Missouri and at Elmira in 

 eastern Iowa, and therefore very probably occurs in Illinois and 

 other states bordering the Mississippi. Somes (1910) states that 

 veliei "averages smaller than femorata, especially in the males, 

 and these also tend to brighter coloration, being often quite dis- 

 tinctly marked with two light colored lateral stripes, the pleura 

 being light colored in life, though after drying the color is less dis- 

 tinct. It frequents tall grasses and low brush rather than trees 

 and tall shrubs, being often found on such plants as Andropogon 

 scoparius MX., Lespedeza capita t a MX. and Salix- Immilis Marsh." 



54. DIAPIIEROMEBA CAROLINA Scudder, 1901, 188. Carolina Walking-stick. 



"Stouter than D. femorata, testaceo-castaneous, glistening; thorax 

 with a rather broad median bronze-fuscous stripe, not reaching the median 

 segment, and interrupted at posterior end of mesonotum; fore legs green- 

 ish, antennae testaceous; thorax with excessively fine transverse striation. 

 Mesothorax and metathorax (including median segment) of similar length. 

 Seventh and eighth abdominal segments of subequal length, each faintly 

 enlarging from base, the ninth a little shorter, apically inflated and sub- 

 globose, nearly half as broad again at apex as at base, the cerci much as in 

 D. femorata, but stouter, more compressed and without basal tooth. 

 Length of body, 5, 67; head, 3; mesothorax, 13.5; fore femora, 20.5; hind 

 femora, 19.5 mm." (Scudder.) 



The above is the original description of the unique male type 

 of this well marked Phasmid which was collected in North Caro- 

 lina by Morrison. An examination of it at Cambridge shows that 

 it has the cerci rather strongly incurved and flattened, being fully 

 twice as thick vertically as horizontally, with the apical half sub- 

 spatulate within ; ninth segment of abdomen globose, scarcely 

 longer than wide ; seventh and eighth segments subequal, each 

 slightly broader than long and a little shorter than the ninth. 

 The only specimen known, other than the type, is a male taken by 

 Mrs. A. T. Slosson at Lake Toxaway, N. C., and now in the Davis 

 collection. It agrees fully with Scudder s description as emended 

 above and there can be no doubt of its specific standing. The 

 shining dark dorsal stripe, narrow on pronotum and much wider 



