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I bclie\e these forms will he easily recognized, and fewer 

 mistakes will be made in the future. Packard evidently did not 

 have a clear conception of Xanthorhoe miinitata Hub.,or defensaria 

 Guen., for he mixed the species badly on plate VIII of the 

 Monograph. Fig. 06 of this plate does not represent mnnitata 

 Hiib., as Packard states, but male defensaria Guen. Fig. 67 of 

 the same plate is not mnnitata var., as stated, but female 

 defensaria, probably var. californiata Pack. A', mnnitata Hiib., 

 has the intradiscal line strongh' outcurved, where in defensaria it 

 is nearly straight. Fig. 72, PI. \'1II, of the Monograph, appears 

 very close to mnnitata, but there is always a doubt when figures 

 are uncoloured. 



Dr. Dyar discusses A', defensaria in Proc. U. S. National 

 Museum, vol. XXVII, pp. 779-938, 1904. Mr.Wolley Dod com- 

 pares defensaria and mnnitata in Can. Ent., vol. XXXVIII, p. 

 254, 1906. 



In conclusion, I wish to thank Mr. E. H. Blackmore for the 

 loan of specimens and valuable assistance, and Mr. H. Weiss for 

 useful information and assistance in comparing A', amorata Hulst 

 with defensaria Guen. 



SOME MUSICAL ORTHOPTERA* AT CLARENDON, 



VIRGINIA. 



nv H. A. ALLARD, W.\SHlNGTON, D.C. 



Miogryllns sanssurei Scudd. In June, 1914, the writer cap- 

 tured several individuals of this small cricket in the short, matted 

 grass of the dooryard of his home. These crickets appear very 

 shy and are rather solitary in their habits. Their stridulation 

 is a brief, rather faint, high-pitched, intermittent trill — tiiiii, 

 tiiiii, tiiiii, tiiiii — very much resembling the intermittent trills 

 of some species of Nemobins. 



Anurogryllns mnticns DeGeer. In early June, 1914, the writer 

 found great numbers of these crickets in a small pine grove .on a 

 hillside just behind Mr. Abie's house near Vinson Station. These 



* The Orthoptera listed in this paper were kindy identified by Mr. 

 A. N. Caudell of the U. S. Xational Museum. 

 October, 191C 



