354 FAMILY VI. ACIIIDIILK. T1IK LotTSTS. 



slender, incurved, narrowed at middle, the apical fourth flattened and con- 

 cave, without (PI. IV. t.) Subgenital plate of male with apex subtrun- 

 cate, the lateral margins low. Length of body, &, 2032. 9, 2844; of 

 antennae, $, 1319, 9, 915; of pronotum, $, 4.5 G.7, 9. G 8.5; of 

 tegmina, $, 1222, 9, 1628; of hind femora, $, 12 1G.5, 9. 1C 22 mm. 



Boston, Mass., Aug. 11 (Alorse) ; Gainesville, Fla., Sept. 20 

 Oct. 24 (F<itti<j)\ Sanford, Lake Okeechobee and Dnnedin, Fla., 

 Dec. 11 Apr. 4 (IT. X. /?.). In Florida I have found this species 

 in winter much less common than <itla)itic<i. not more than half a 

 dozen being found at any one locality. There its habits and haunts 

 are essentially the same as those of atlanticu. At other seasons it 

 appears to be more abundant, having been recorded from numer- 

 ous stations as common, especially in the typical saw-grass of the 

 everglades and among tall grasses growing near sink-holes and 

 dam]* places in the pine woods. 



The known range of typical clai'itln/cr is much more extensive 

 than that of the other species of Paro,ri/a, but is mainly submari- 

 time, extending from Arner, Ontario, and southern New England 

 to southern Florida, Louisiana and Dallas, Texas. From most of 

 its known stations it has been recorded under the name Paro.ri/a 

 floriilfiHfi Thos., which R. & H. (1910, 251) have shown to be a 

 synonym. For a number of years it was confused with P. atlan- 

 1ica, and was often mentioned or recorded under that name. Tn 

 New England Morse (1898, 290) says: "It occurs locally in 

 swamps and marshes, especially on cord-grass (R part inn] grow- 

 ing in the tide-water ditches of salt meadows and in the long 

 sedge of bushy inland meadows and swamps. While active and 

 alert it is readily captured, owing to its habit of trying to escape 

 observation by getting out of sight behind the stouter stems of 

 grass and weeds rather than by flight, to which it resorts only 

 \\lien alarmed. It leaps well and quickly but its flight is com- 

 paratively short." Tie has described H893a) a melanistic form 

 from near Cambridge, Mass., the males being "deep-greenish-black 

 with a peculiar oily lustre." 



In A'irginia Fox (1917) records clunirnjcr as "abundant in the 

 tidal marshes of the Coastal Plain, frequenting the dense growths 

 of Rfirjuift aiiicrirdiitts Pers. and RpartiiKi ci/nosuroidcs L., but 

 not present in true salt marsh dominated by Rpartina glabra 

 Muhl. It also occurs inland in bogs and wet meadows overgrown 

 with cat-tails, dense grasses, and other rank herbage. At Jarman 

 Gap in the Blue Ridge the species was found in a small boggy 

 spot near the head of a stream quite close to the summit." 



