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Taking as units the two most extensive series here examined, the 

 El Paso representation averages slightly larger than that from 

 Albuquerque, but the variation within each is considerable. 



All the specimens examined from Texas and New Mexico are in a 

 brownish phase, no approach being noticed to the green phase. The 

 Albuquerque and Deming specimens are quite grayish, the Alamo- 

 gordo one reddish and the Spofford lot quite blackish, but the tegminal 

 pattern is retained by all the individuals examined. 



This species is now known from Carrizo Springs, Spofford, Ysleta 

 and El Paso, Texas; Roswell, Alamogordo, Albuquerque, Mesilla, 

 Aden and Deming, New Mexico; Tucson, Florence, Phoenix and San 

 Bernardino Ranch, Arizona, and southern California. 



In its actions this species is more active than E. sordidus, but much 

 less so than E. costalis. 



HIPPISCUS Saussure. 

 Hippiscus corallipes (Haldeman). 



On the bare spots of an irrigated field along the Rio Grande below 

 El Paso, two males and two females of this species were taken on July 

 11. At Aden, July 21, three of each sex were taken in all the situations 

 found at that locality, but it was most commonly found in grass prairie 

 land, where the species was very wary. All of the specimens have 

 the internal faces of the caudal femora red or pinkish-red except 

 the females from El Paso, one of which has the same areas deep blue, 

 the other purplish. 

 Hippiscus cupidus Scudder. 



Three males of this species have been examined from Fort Wingate, 

 New Mexico, taken April 26, 1908, by John Woodgate. A compari- 

 son with males from Jerome, Arizona, reveals no differences worthy 

 of mention. 



The range of this species now extends from Jerome and Prescott, 

 Arizona, to northwestern New Mexico. The record of H. leprosus 

 from the Pinal Mountains, Arizona, 13 belongs to this species. 

 Hippiscus affriotus Scudder. 



A single female of this species was taken at Fort Wingate, New 

 Mexico, June 2, 1908, by John Wingate. 



The range of the species is extended considerably to the southward 

 by this record, which is the first of the species from New Mexico ; Range- 

 ley, on the lower White River, western Colorado, being the nearest 

 locality from which it had previously been recorded. 



13 Canad. Entom., XXXIII, p. 102. 



