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collect two species of ( )rthoplera not hitherto recorded from 

 that State. When it is home in mind that the local Orthoptera 

 constitute a relatively small group and that Xe\v Jersey by 

 virtue of its limited extent and close proximity to numerous 

 centers of scientific activity has prohahly been more thoroughly 

 explored entomologically than any other state in the Union, it 

 seems remarkable that the occurrence in it of the two forms 

 here recorded was so long overlooked. 



The species herein recorded from New Jersey for the first 

 time are Orchelimnm volantnm McNeill and Conoccphalus 

 attcnnatus (Scudder). The former has hitherto been known 

 only from the region of the Great Lakes and the upper Missis- 

 sippi Basin, the easternmost records being Niagara River, 

 Ontario and Cedar Point, Ohio. 1 1 first encountered 0. 

 volant uin in New Jersey on August 27. 1920, when I took a 

 male in some heavy herbage bordering the tidal flats of Ran- 

 cocas Creek, on its north side, about \}/ 2 miles southeast of the 

 village of Rancocas in Burlington County. It was associated 

 at this place with numerous individuals of 0. a<jilc and 0. 

 pulchellum. On September 1, I took another male in a neglected 

 tomato patch overgrown with pig-weed, Amaranthns retro- 

 flc.vus, on a low bluff bordering the Delaware River about one 

 mile north of Delanco. It was found here while stridulating 

 on a tall pig-weed, having attracted attention by its song which 

 was decidedly weaker than that of either O. vulgarc or O. 

 f^ulc hell it in,- both of which occurred in considerable numbers 

 in the same field. 



Although search was made on several other occasions in 

 what appeared to be favorable situations for additional material 

 of 0. volant inn, the two males mentioned were the only speci- 

 mens secured. As both were obtained in quite different sur- 

 roundings, the evidence they afford as to the habitat of the 

 species in New Jersey is somewhat puz/ling. However, the 

 evidence we have on its habitat-relations in other parts of its 

 range shows that it is unquestionably a marsh-dwelling species. 



!Rehn and Hebard, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., XLI, 1915, p. 72. 

 2 The taxonomic terms employed in this paper are those standardized 

 in recent years by Rehn and Hebard or Blalchley. 



