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asymmetrical and the large arolium is produced as far as the 

 apex of the longer tarsal claw. The species of Timema are 

 furthermore much smaller than those of Agathemera. 



Timema californicum Scudder 



1895. T(imema) californicum Scudder, Can, Ent., XXVII, p. 30. 

 [Santa Cruz, California.] 



1903. Timema californicum Caudell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVI, 

 p. 883, pi. LVII, fig. 5, pi. LVIII, fig. 7. (In part.) [0*. 9 ; Santa Cruz 

 Mountains, California.] 



1903. Timema californica Caudell, Ent. News, XIV, p. 316. [[juv.] 

 9 ; Humboldt County, California.] 



1908. Timema californicum Redtenbacher, Insektenfam. Phasmiden, 

 p. 88. (No additional material.) 



1913. Timema californica Caudell, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XLIV, p. 

 613. (No additional material.) 



The species is best discussed by Caudell in his first paper 

 in 1903, the detail figures there given being, however, very 

 poor. 



Fig. i. Timema californicum Scudd.er. Mount Tamalpais, California, Male. Dorsal 

 view ot distal portion of abdomen. (Much enlarged.) 



Fig. 2. T imema chumash new species. Los Angeles County, California. Male. Type. 

 Dorsal view of distal portion of abdomen. (Much enlarged.) 



Later that year Caudell gives all the data yet recorded as 

 to the habits of this singular insect. According to that 

 author, on June 9th to i6th, 1903, Mr. H. S. Barber beat 

 nineteen females from fir trees (at Bair's Ranch on Redwood 

 Creek) in Humboldt County, California, at an elevation of 

 about 1400 feet. The individuals were reported to be green 

 like the fir needles, which they resembled so closely as to be 

 scarcely discernable as long as they remained motionless, 

 which they did for some time after having been beaten into 

 the net. All were taken from the lower branches of a clump 



