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[April, 



Dissosteira Carolina (Linnaeus). 



Maryland. 

 Glen Echo, VII, 10, 1914, (H.), 1 9 . 



Virginia. 

 Fredericksburg, VII, 20, 1913, (R. & 



H.), 2 d\ 19, 1 juv. 9. 

 Orange, VII, 21, 1913, (R. & H.), 2 <?. 

 Lynchburg, VII, 22, 1913, (R. & H.), 



I'd 1 . 

 Montgomery County, (E. A. Smyth 



Jr.), 1 d\ [Hebard Cln.]. 

 Petersburg, VII, 23, 1913, (R. & H.), 



1 d\ 



North Carolina. 



Weldon, VII, 24, 1913, (R. & H.), 



"common as usual in dusty places." 

 Greensboro, VII, 26, 1913, (R. & H.), 



1^,19. 

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



1 d\ 

 Charlotte, VII, 27, 1913, (R. & H.), 



19. 



South Carolina. 

 Spartanburg, VIII, 6, 1913, (H.), 1 <?. 



No geographic variation appears to exist in the present series of 

 this very widely distributed and ubiquitous species. Extremes in 

 tegminal length are as follows: males, 29.3 to 33 mm., females, 

 32.5 to 40 mm. The species is everywhere to be found along dusty 

 roads and on more or less bare spots in waste land. It is not nearly 

 as abundant below the fall line south of central North Carolina, 

 however, as in the Piedmont region, and has not been taken anywhere 

 south of Enterprise, Florida. Sufficient work has been done in southern 

 Florida to warrant the statement that the species is not to be found 

 in that region. 



Spharagemon crepitans (Sauasure). PL XII, figs. 9, 10. 



Georgia. 

 St. Simon's Island, VIII, 30, 1911, (H.), 



1 cf, 39. 

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



3 d\39. 

 Cumberland Island, VIII, 31, 1911, 



(R. &H.), 5 d\ 3 9. 



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



fairly common. 

 Magnolia, IX, 5, 1911, (R. & H.), 



occasional. 



Georgia. 



Rabun County, VII, 1910, (W. T. 



Davis), 1 d 1 , 2 9. 

 Dalton, VIII, 7, 1911, (R.), 1 <?. 

 Thompson's Mills, (H. A. Allard), 1 d\ 



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Silver' Lake, VIII, 10, 1913, (J. C. 



Bradley), 1 d*. 

 Vicinity of Stone Mountain, VIII, 3, 



1913, (R. &H.), 19. 

 Augusta, VII, 29, 1913, (R. & H.), 1 9 . 

 Macon, VII, 30-31, 1913, (R. & H.), 



19. 

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



1 juv. 9 . 

 Isle of Hope, IX, 3, 1911, (R. & H.), 



Billv's Island, XI, 1912, (J. C. Brad- 

 ley), 2 d% 5 9. 

 Bainbridge, IX, 3-7, 1910, (J. C. 



Bradley), 1 d", 2 9. 



Florida. 

 Jacksonville, (T. J. Priddey), 2 9, 



[Hebard Cln. 

 Atlantic Beach, VIII, 24, 1911, (H.), 



4 cf . 

 Pablo Beach, VIII, 11, 12, 1905, 



(R. &H.), 2 cf, 49. 

 Cedar Keys, VIII, 15, 1905, (R. & H.), 



1 d\ 19. 



The present insect may be separated from its nearest ally, S. bolli, 

 by the following characters: form more attenuate; cephalic margin 

 of pronotum more produced mesad and with margin of crest of pro- 

 zona usually straight and horizontal throughout; tegmina with 

 proximal lobe of costal margin more pronounced; wings with disk 



