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the store room at the National Museum. This handsome little 

 roach is found in the West Indies and Mexico, as well as in 

 Central and South America. The members of the genus are 

 easy of dissemination and are fast becoming cosmopolitan, 

 and one or more species will very surely become permanent 

 residents within our borders. 



On October 9, 1905, Mr. J. C. Rounds, of Westwater, Utah, 

 sent a female specimen of Stagmomantis Carolina L. to the 

 National Museum for determination. This, I believe, is the 

 farthest western specific record for this insect, though some 

 older general localities may include regions even farther west. 



The writer has in preparation a catalogue of the Orthoptera 

 of the United States and Canada which is intended for publica 

 tion as soon as Professor Bruner completes his work on the 

 Biologia Centrali- Americana, which includes many species that 

 occur within our borders. The advancement made in the study 

 of this order since the issuance of Scudder's catalogue seems 

 to warrant a new catalogue being made. Certain names in 

 present use that are untenable from one cause or another, usu 

 ally nomenclatural in nature, will need changing. One such 

 case follows : 



Scudder b describes what he supposed to be the Caloptenus 

 regalis of Dodge, placing it in the genus ^Eoloplus. But, as 

 stated by Professor Bruner in a letter to the writer, the C. rega 

 lis of Dodge is a Melanoplus occurring in Nebraska and Colo 

 rado, specimens from the latter State sent me by Professor 

 Bruner agreeing with the original description of Dodge. 

 Thus the insect described as an ^Eoloplus by Scudder is, from 

 a nomenclatural standpoint, without a name. The specific 

 name bruneri is therefore proposed for it. 



Asemoplus rainierensis, n. sp. 



Last year Mr. H. E. Burke brought me a pair of a new 

 species of 'Asemoplus from Mt. Rainier, Washington. This year 

 (July, 1906)! visited Mt. Rainier and found the insect present 

 in Paradise Valley in vast numbers. So numerous, indeed, 

 were they that the ground in places was fairly swarming with 

 them, the grass and small plants being wholly destroyed by the 

 myriads of these small grasshoppers. Associated with the new 

 species was an equal number of an apterous species which was 

 described by Walker from Canada as A. nudus. Superficially 

 the new species bears a very close resemblance to Walker's 

 species but structurally it is quite distinct. From Asemoplus 

 montanus Bruner, however, the new species is less easily sepa- 



b Rev. Melanop., p. 71. 



