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was found in the afternoon, resting on a frond of a palm growing in a 

 garden. 



Scudderia furcata Brunner. 



A single male of this species was taken at Ahwahnee, September 3. 

 This is the most southern record for California. The insect was taken 

 in a rank growth of tarweed. 



Conocephalus 19 spinosus (Morse). 



Three males and one female of this species were taken on salt 

 marsh vegetation at South Coronado Beach, August 16. In life the 

 specimens were deep green in color. The species was described from 

 Coronado, and has not been reported from elsewhere. At the time 

 these specimens were taken adults were extremely scarce. 



Conocephalus occidentalis (Morse). 



In a meadow of deep rank grass at Sentinel, Yosemite Park, August 

 31, five males and five females of this species were taken. At Mari- 

 posa Grove, September 2, three males and seven females were also 

 taken, while at Mill Valley, August 23, two females were secured in a 

 dry ditch. The females exhibit considerable diversity in the length 

 of the ovipositor, the extremes, however, being well within those given 

 by Morse, while the wings do not quite reach the apex of the abdomen 

 in any of the males and range from one-half to three-fourths the length 

 of the abdomen in the females. 



One of the specimens taken at Mill Valley was caught ovipositing 

 in a grass straw. 

 Conocephalus vicinus (Morse). 



Two males of this species were taken among grasses on sand dunes 

 directly back of the ocean beach at Alamitos Bay, July 31. 



Neduba convexa Caudell. 



Four males of this form were taken at 2,100 feet elevation on Mt. 

 Tamalpais, on ground covered with leaves and bark. They w r ere very 

 quiet and when found could be picked up easily. One specimen is 

 slightly smaller than the original measurements, the other three, 

 however, being almost identical with the type male in dimensions. 



The color form of the type male, viz., "light yellowish-brown," is 

 not represented in the four specimens before us, two of these being 

 red-brown and the others umber-brow r n. The abdominal pattern 

 found in N. carinata is marked in the tw 7 o red-brown males, hardly 



19 For remarks on the use of this name in place of Xiphidium of authors see 

 Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, p. 389. 



