494 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [June, 



Locality Records.— 



Appalachian District. — Ricketts, Wyoming Co., Pa. (S. Brown); 

 Bellasylva, Wyoming Co., Pa. (S. Brown); Ganoga Lake, Sullivan 

 Co., Pa. (S. Brown); Turnersville, Wayne Co., Pa. (B. Long); 

 South Sterling, Wayne Co., Pa. (Long); Loanna, Pike Co., Pa. 

 (Long). 



Highlands. — Lake Hopatcong, Sparta, Culvers Lake, Newfound- 

 land, Orange Mts., N. J. (N. J. St. Mus. Rep.). 



Piedmont Plateau.— Caldwell, N. J. (N. J. St. Mus. Rep.) ; Rock 

 Hill, Pa. (Fox); Collegeville, Pa. (Fox); Fort Washington, Pa. 

 (Fox); Fern Hill, Pa. (Rehn and Hebard); Pink Hill, Pa., in ''hum- 

 mock" bog, valley of Fawkes Run (Fox). 



Middle District.— Tullyiown, Pa. (Fox); Elmwood, Pa. (Fox); 

 Paschalville, Pa. (Fox); Essington, Pa. (Fox). 



Jamesburg, N. J. (N. J. St. Mus. Rep.); Washington Park (Fox); 

 Almonesson (Fox) ; Clementon (Fox) . 



Pine Barrens.— "Ocean Co." (Smith, in N.J. St. Mus. Rep.); Fol- 

 som, in open bog border, several (Fox) ; Belleplain, one individual in 

 small cranberry bog in oak and pine woods (Fox) . 



Coastal District. — Ocean View, very local, moderately frequent 

 in the succulent grass surrounding a Scirpus americanus depression 

 near Devaul Run (Fox) ; Petersburg, small numbers in succulent 

 grass on slope adjoining overflow marsh on Cedar Swamp Creek 

 (Fox); Anglesea (Rehn). 



MECOSTETHUS Fieb. 

 M. lineatus Scudd. 



General Range. — Canadian Provinces to southern New Jersey, 

 Indiana and Illinois, west to eastern Nebraska. 



Local Distribution. — Appalachian District and Coastal Plain, 

 very local and only exceptionally frequent, usually scarce. Only 

 one record from the Piedmont Plateau. In our region most frequent 

 apparently on the shores of the Delaware River. 



Ecological Distribution. — A strongly hygrophilous species, 

 preferring marshes in which there is a tall and dense growth of 

 grasses and sedges. 



Locality Records. — 



Appalachian District. — Lopez, Sullivan Co. (Long). 



Piedmont Plateau. — Fort Lee (Beutenmiiller). 



Middle District. — Elmwood in a H omalocenchrus oryzoides bog on 

 Tinicum Meadows (Fox); Tinicum Meadows (Rehn and Hebard). 



