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PHRYNOTETTIX Glover. 

 Phrynotettix verruculatus Uhler. 



A single female which was taken on a bare spot of red earth in grass 

 prairie land at Aden, July 21, belongs to this species. The coloration 

 of the specimen resembles that of the surroundings in which it was 

 taken. The specimen measures as follows : Length of body, 35 mm. ; 

 length of pronotum, 16; greatest dorsal width of pronotum, 11 ; exposed 

 length of tegmen, 7; length of caudal femur, 16. One of the charac- 

 ters separating this species from P. magnus (Thomas) from southern 

 Arizona is the more compressed and deeply sulcate inter-antennal 

 portion of the frontal costa. 



The records of this species are from the Pecos River in Texas or New 

 Mexico; Las Cruces, La Cueva, Organ Mountains, Taos Valley and 

 Aden, New Mexico, and Phoenix, Arizona. 

 Phrynotettix robustus (Brunei-). 



A single female of this species was collected on the summit of a boul- 

 der-covered hill at the foot of the mesa at El Paso, July 11. The 

 specimen was squatted motionless on a large pebble like a toad. 



This species is now known from localities in the Otero Basin 

 (Alamogordo), Rio Grande Valley (El Paso, Las Cruces and Lake 

 Valley) and Southwestern Arizona. 



SCHISTOCERCA St&l. 

 Schistocerca alutacea (Harris). 



A single female from Albuquerque, taken September 14 in the culti- 

 vated section along the Rio Grande, is referred to this species. It 

 has the caudal tibiae extremely dark and in this respect it approaches 

 S. obscura, but on comparison with specimens of S. alutacea, obscura 

 and venusta its most intimate relationship is seen to be with alutacea. 

 The metazona is well supplied with fair-sized spots of yellowish, similar 

 to those frequently noticed in S. venusta and more rarely in a weaker 

 form in S. alutacea. 



The previous New Mexican records of this species are from Las Cruces 

 and the vicinity of Mesilla, its known distribution in the territory being 

 in the bottom lands of a portion of the Rio Grande Valley. 



Schistoceroa shoshone (Thomas). 



This powerful species was found at both El Paso and Albuquerque, 

 two males and two females being taken at the former locality and four 

 males and two females at the latter. At Albuquerque, September 14, 

 the species was taken in the cultivated area along the river, while at 

 El Paso one pair was taken from tall green weeds on irrigated land, 

 July 11, and the other pair was captured, July 17, in the mesquite- 

 dotted sand waste east of the town, in which latter situation the species 

 was plentiful but very wary. 



