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them as they rested on the ground. The females were exceedingly 

 difficult to kill in the cyanide bottle, " coming to " after having been kept 

 in it for several hours, although the males and the other insects above 

 mentioned were killed in a few minutes. On Oct. 27th the spot was 

 again visited, and, although several heavy frosts had occurred, yet the 

 species was still fairly common. At this time, however, they were all 

 found in the small patches of grass which grew among the fallen leaves 

 a few yards from the edges of the pond proper, 



TETTIGINiE. 



5. Batrachidea carinata, Scudder. 



Batrachidea carinata, Scudd, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., VII., 1862,479. 



Thos. Syn. Acrid. N. A., 1873, 190. 

 Fernald, Orth. N. E., 1888, 49. 

 Tettix cristaius, McNeill, Psyche, May, 1891, 77. 



Two males of this species were taken, in company with numerous 

 young and adults of ^. cristata, Harris, from a grassy hillside on April 

 ist, 1 89 1. Although Bolivar, according to McNeill, has made carinata 

 a synonym oi cristata, yet, in my opinion, the two are as distinct as are 

 the two common species of Tettigidea. Carinata has the pronotum 

 extending 3 mm., and the wings 4 mm. beyond the tip of abdomen, 

 whereas cristata has the pronotum of the same length as the abdomen 

 and the wings lacking 2 mm. of reaching its tip. Moreover, the median 

 crest of the pronotum is not so prominent nor so strongly arched in 

 cari?iata 3L?,m cristata. Length of pronotum oi cristata, $ 7 mm.; of 

 carinata, c? 9-5 nim. Carinata has not before been reported west of 

 New Jersey. 



6. Tettix cucull.vius, Burm. 



Tettix cucullata, Scudd., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., VII., 1862, 475. 



Thos., Syn. Acrid. N. A., 1873, 1S5. 

 Tettix cucullatus, Fernald, Orth. N. E., 18S8, 47. 

 McNeill, Psyche, VI., 1891, 77. 

 Several half-grown young and two adults of this species were taken 

 on April ist, and on Sept. 15th a large number of adults were secured. 

 It appears to be widely distributed over the Eastern U. S., its occurrence 

 having been observed from New England to Sherman, Texas, at which 

 latter locality I took a number of specimens on July nth. It is evidently 

 a water-loving species, as those taken in Texas, and most of tjiose secured 



