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Periplaneta brunnea Burmeister. 



Georgia. Florida. 



Brunswick, VIII, 31, 1911, (R. & H.), Fernandina, (W. H. Finn), 1 d 1 , 



2 9. [U. S. N. M.]. 



Billv's Island, VI, 1912, (J. C. Brad- Jacksonville, (T. J. Priddey), 2 9 , 



lev), 1 9 . [Hebard Cln.]; IX, 28, 1913, (W. T. 



Thomasville, I, 3, 1908, (H.), 3d 1 , Davis), 1 9 . 



2 9,3 juv. 



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All of these specimens belong to " var. a. " of Saussure and Zehntner, 

 except the Billy's Island female, which approaches "var. c. " There 

 is, however, some variation in the depth of the castaneous general 

 coloring in several of the Thomasville specimens, this also being 

 present in series from other localities in the collections at hand, and 

 is not due to geographic or sexual difference. 



The northern limit of distribution of the present species as now 

 known is marked by Bainbridge, Thomasville, Billy's Island and 

 Brunswick, Georgia, but doubtless it is being constantly extended 

 northward by coastwise shipping. 



At Brunswick we found this form running on the hotel veranda 

 and at Thomasville it was taken from under signs on oaks. 



Pycnoscelus surinamensis (Linnaeus). 



Jacksonville, Florida, (T. J. Priddey), New Smyrna, Fla., Ill, 1905, (A. N. 



1 9 , [Hebard Cln.]. Caudell; bred, adult XI, 1905), 1 9 , 



Cedar Keys, Fla., (E. Palmer), 1 juv. [U. S. N. M.]. 



[M. C. Z.]. 



Chorisoneura texensis Saussure and Zehntner. 



1904. Chorisoneura plocea Rehn, Ent. News, XV, p. 164. [Coast of South 

 Carolina.] 



North Carolina. Florida. 



Tryon, VI, 19, 2 d\ [U. S. N. M.]. Atlantic Beach, VIII, 25, 1911, (R. & 



o • H.), 1 cf, 19. 



„ „. , , L,e ° r 9 m - tt Orlando, VI, 7, 1907, 1 9 , [U. S. N. M.]. 

 St. Simon's Island, IV, 22-V, 12, 1911, 

 (J. C.Bradley), 3 d\ 2 9 . 



Texan series compared with sixteen specimens now before us from 

 the southeastern United States show plocea to be a synonym 

 of texensis. Rehn, in the absence of Texan material, was led, by 

 ambiguity in the description of texensis and confusion hi the names 

 of the tegminal veins, to suppose the specimen before him to be 

 different. 



The above specimens were taken at light (Tryon), in nests of 

 webworm (Orlando) and beaten from bushes of bayberry, Myrica 

 cerifera, growing in and along the edge of pine woods (Atlantic 

 Beach). 



