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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[April, 



is particularly a spring species over the entire portion of its range 

 treated in the present paper, as adults are usually found to be scarce 

 as early as the middle of July. At about this time the young were 

 found quite numerous in Virginia and North Carolina. 



We have never seen specimens of the present insect showing any 

 indication of a reddish suffusion, which is so striking in occasional 

 specimens, particularly those in the green phase, of C. australior. 

 In the present series eighteen males and nine females are of the brown 

 phase, seven males and twenty-two females are of the green phase, 

 while one female is brown suffused with green. 



This species prefers upland surroundings where it thrives in the 

 open in areas of short grasses; it is also found along the borders of 

 woodlands (Weldon and Greensboro, North Carolina; Jasper, Georgia) 

 and was found scarce in bunch-grass growing on granite slopes (Stone 

 Mountain, Georgia). 



On the Atlantic coast the insect is known as far south as Sullivan 

 Island, South Carolina, inland the most southern records are Florence, 

 South Carolina; Augusta, Marshallville and West Point, Georgia, and 

 Flomaton, Alabama. 49 The species is found far south of this latitude 

 in Texas, and we have specimens before us from as far east on the 

 Gulf coast as Biloxi, Mississippi. 



Chortophaga australior Rehn and Hebard. 



Georgia. 

 Savannah, (A. Oemler), 1 d% [U. S. 



N. M.]. 

 Tybee Island, VII, 26, 1913, (J. C. 



Bradlev), 1 o\ 19; IX, 2, 1911, 



(H.), l"cf. 

 Jesup, IX, 1, 1911, (R. & H.), 2 9 . 

 St. Simon's Island, VIII, 30, 1911, 



(R. &H.), 3 cf, 9 9, 1 juv. &. 

 Brunswick, VIII, 30, 1911, (H.), 1 cf , 



19. 

 Cumberland Island, IV, 29, 19, 



[Ga. State Cm.]; VIII, 31, 1911, 



(R. &H.), la 1 ,!?. 

 Hebardville, V, 15, 1915, (H.), 1 cf . 

 Billy's Island, VI, VII, IX, 1912-13, 



(J. C. Bradley), 8^,6?. 

 Homerville, VIII, 27, 1911, (R. & H.), 



19. 

 Albany, VIII, 1, 1913, (R. & H.), 1 tf, 



19,1 juv. cf, 1 juv. 9. 

 Tifton, IX, 8, 1910, (J. C. Bradley), 



1 <?, 19. 

 Bainbridge, IX, 3-X, 19, 1910, (J. C. 



Bradlev), 3 tf, 6 9. 



Spring Creek, VI, 7-VIII, 28, 1911, 13, 

 (J. C. Bradley), 8 d\ 6 9 . 



Florida. 



Fernandina, (Fenn), 1 &, [U. S. N. M.J. 

 Jacksonville, VIII, 25, 1911, (R. & 



H.), 19,1 juv. cf ; IX, 7, 1913, 



(W. T. Davis), 1 <?) XI, 5, 1911, 



(W. T. Davis), 2^,59. 

 Atlantic Beach, VIII, 24-25, 1911, 



(R. & H.), 5 cf, 12 9, 1 juv. 9. 

 Pablo Beach, IX, 5, 27, 1913, (W. T. 



Davis), 3 cf, 4 9. 

 Live Oak, VIII, 26, 1911, (R. & H.), 



39. 

 St. Vincent Island, XI, 1, 1910, 



(W. L. McAtee), 2 <?, 19, [U. S. 



N. M.]. 

 St. Augustine, XI, 8, 1911, (G. P. 



Englehardt), 19, [B. I.]. 

 Cedar Keys, VI, 9, 1 9 , [U. S. N. M.]. 

 Sanford, III, (A. N. Caudell), 1 9 , [U. S. 



N. M.J. 

 Indian River, 1896, (T. J. Priddey), 



1 d\ 19, [Hebard Cln.]. 



49 See under C. australior, Morse's records of this insect which apply properly 

 to that species. 



