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The present series of very small young all have short, flattened 

 antennae with apices weakly clavate. 



The southeastern limits of the known distribution of the species 

 are defined by some of the records given above. 



The present material was taken in campestral surroundings; in 

 short grasses, usually on uplands, but on the flat country just below 

 the fall line at Augusta. The young were abundant at Greensboro, 

 elsewhere they were occasional or very scarce. 



Macneillia obscura Scudder. 



Live Oak, Florida, VIII, 26, 1911, (R. & H.), 2 9,2 juv. tf. 

 Gotha, Fla., 1 <? , [U. S. N. M.]. 



Both of the above females are Vandyke brown in general coloration, 

 one has the dorsal median section of the pronotum between the 

 supplementary carina? (which in this specimen are distinct) and the 

 corresponding portion of the head clay color; the other specimen 

 is unicolorous, the lateral carina? alone outlined in clay color, and 

 has no indication whatever of supplementary carina?. 44 Study of 

 the series of forty-five adults and young of this rare species in the col- 

 lections before us, shows that the supplementary carina?, when present, 

 become more decided as a median stripe becomes more prominent. 

 Specimens having a wholly unicolorous dorsum of the pronotum 

 entirely lack supplementary carina?; we find this to be likewise true 

 in the species of the genus Eritettix. 



The specimens from Live Oak, the most northern locality at which 

 this insect has been found, were taken on the side of a depression 

 near a sink hole, where the deforested ground was covered with wire- 

 grass and clumps of a dwarf oak growing knee-high. 



Amblytropidia occidentalis (Saussure). 



North Carolina. 



Goldsboro, VII, 25, 1913, (R, & H.), 



1 juv. 9 . 



Fayetteville, IX, 9, 1911, (R. & H.), 



2 juv. a", 3 juv. 9 . 



Lake Ellis, V, 14, 1906, 1 d", [U. S. 



N. M.]. 

 Wilmington, IX, 8, 1911, (R. & H.), 



1 juv. cf. 

 Winter Park, IX, 7, 1911, (R. & H.), 



3 juv. 9 . 



Lake Waccamaw, IX, 8, 1911, (R. & 

 H.), 1 juv. 9. 



South Carolina. 

 Spartanburg, VIII, 6, 1913, (H.), 



1 juv. 9 . 



Florence, IX, 6, 1911, (R. & H.), 



2 o\ 2 juv. <?, 7 juv. 9. 

 Columbia, VII, 29, 1913, (R. & H.), 



1 juv. 9 • 

 Manning, V, 28, 1914, (W. Stone), 



3 <?, 19, [A. N. S. P.]. 



Ashley Junction, VIII, 15, 1913, (R.), 



9 juv. 9 . 

 Yemassee, IX, 4, 1911, (R. & H.), 



4 juv. o% 1 juv. 9 . 



44 Unfortunately the authors in speaking of such unicolorous specimens used 

 "lateral carina}" where "supplementary carinse" was meant. Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1912. p. 251, (1912). " 



