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with small ashy blotches. The Providence Mountains female is 

 similar to the type but paler, inclining toward emerald green, with the 

 brownish on the pronotum reduced. 4 The Pasadena individual is 

 in a brownish phase corresponding to that of the Kelso male, the 

 limbs being more (particularly the cephalic) or less annulate with 

 buffy, the tegmina entirely sprinkled with small creamy-white macu- 

 lations and the stigma marked. 



At Cottonwood all the specimens were attracted to the lights of 

 the train, the individual taken at Kelso having been captured in a 

 similar manner, while in the North Range of the Providence Mountains 

 the species was taken on green desert weeds. 



PHASMIDiE. 

 Parabacillus coloradus (Scudder). 



A broken specimen of this species, taken at Pasadena, California, 

 by Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., has been examined. The right cephalic 

 limb is aborted, the whole regenerated leg being but little longer than 

 the head. The only previous exact Californian record of the species 

 is of its occurrence at Elsinore, Riverside County. 



ACRIDIDJE. 

 Aorydium granulatum Kirby. 



A single adult male and three nymphs of this northern species were 

 taken in tall grass in meadow land at Sentinel, Yosemite National 

 Park, August 31. When compared with material from Michigan the 

 adult specimen is found to be inseparable. This is the first record 

 of the species from California. 

 Paratettix toltecus (Saussure). 



A series of seven males and nine females of this species were taken 

 at Las Vegas, August 10, in a giassy well-watered strip along a stream. 

 A single female was also taken at Cottonwood, September 9, 

 on dry grassy ground along the course of the Mohave River. These 

 specimens are quite uniform in size, the males of course smaller than 

 the females, while the color varies from a blackish-brown base color 

 to one of deep dull maroon-red; the paired blackish triangles placed 

 caudad of the greatest width of the pronotum are present more or les s 

 distinctly on all but one of the specimens. This one, a male, has a 

 broad medio-longitudinal bar of dull ochraceous present from the 

 fastigium to the apex of the pronotum, this margined laterad at the 

 greatest width with blackish-brown. 



4 This color is probably due to discoloration in drying. 



