40 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Thus far comparatively little attention has been paid to the conocephalids 

 among the Locustidae of North America. Especially is this true with 

 reference to the genera Xiphidhan and Orchelitnum, both of which are 

 rich in species here in Nebraska as well as in almost every other State of 

 the Union. When I undertook to work over the specimens of these in- 

 sects in my collection, it was but a very short time before the discovery 

 was made of a number of new things. Some of the most striking of 



these are now described. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES. 



PHRAGMATOBIA RUBRICOSA HARRIS. 



There is no doubt but that our specimens which go by the above 

 name are referable to the European F. fuliginosa Linn. 



Prof Smith has noticed their superficial resemblance* which amounts 

 to identity. I have compared examples from France with a series from 

 New York and I can find no difference in ornamentation. Neither do 

 they differ structurally. The venation is identical. f The genitalia of the 

 male also are the same within the limits of variation of the species, which 

 appear to be wide. In the specimen from Europe examined the supra- 

 anal plate is elongate-triangular, produced to a point, concave below, 

 sHghtly curved down and bulging a little laterally at the base. The side 

 pieces are very long and narrow, gradually tapering and curved inwards. 

 They are strongly concave on the inside, the sides being almost curved 

 over, with a short, sharp projection above and below at a little more than 

 half their length. Of rubricosa three specimens were examined. In 

 two the anal plate was aborted, being represented only by a short, square 

 piece ; in the third it was present, of the same shape as in the specimen 

 of fuliginosa, but a little narrower. The side pieces also varied. In the 

 first and third specimens their edges were so much incurved that the two 

 points came together and were united in one piece ; in the other speci- 

 men they were as \n fuliginosa, perhaps even a little less incurved. 



From the above it will be seen that rubricosa cannot stand as a distinct 

 species. Harrison G. Dyar, New York. 



•Can. Ent., XXII., 120. 



tMy specimens differ from Prof. Smith's figure on page 235 (fig. 8) in that the 

 second subcostal venule branches off before the fifth, while in the figure the reverse is 

 the case. This is so in both European and American examples. 



