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four segments. Two eyes with three separate dark globular 

 pigmented masses. Abdomen ovoid. Deposited by viviparous 

 migrant from alder, in crevices of bark on trunk of maple. 

 Shortly after birth this form sheds a thin white membranous 

 skin which commonly adheres to caudal tip of abdomen. After 

 copulation the female deposits a single large egg. 



Male. Darker than female and greenish. Apterous and 

 non-rostrated, measuring .68 mm. in length. Antennae of four 

 segments. Two eyes with pigmented area in one large irreg- 

 ular mass. Abdomen linear. Sheds skin after birth as does 

 the female. This form is smaller than the egg it fertilizes. 



Egg. Comparatively large egg filling most of the abdomen 

 of the female and measuring about .83 mm. It is yellow and 

 glistening and deposits! usually with a downy white secretion. 



Notes on an Orthopterous Leaf Roller. 



BY W. L. McATEE, U. S. Biological Survey. 



(Plate XXV) 



Under a title, by prefixing two words to which, I have 

 formed that of the present article, Mr. A. N. Caudell in 1903 

 described* some exceptional habits of Cawiptonotus carolincnsis 

 Gerstacker. While I have but little, I fear, to add to Mr. 

 Caudell's excellent account, the accompanying photographs 

 will, I hope, prove welcome, especially since one of them, in 

 a way, illustrates his article as well as my own. 



On August 2, 1908, while collecting insects on Plummet's 

 Island, Md., in company with Mr. E. A. Schwarz, a heavily 

 fruited specimen of the bladdernut (Staphylea trifoliata L.) 

 attracted my attention and I proposed that we examine it for 

 insect work. A brief inspection showed that a great many of 

 the swollen triangular pods had rather large irregular holes 

 in them. Mr.. Schwarz, in opening one, disclosed a locustid 

 which escaped, but not before I recognized it as Camptonotus. 

 A minute later, discovering another, I succeeded in keeping it 

 in its lair, one of the 3 roomy cells of the bladdernut, in which 



*Proc. Ent. Soc., Wash. 'Vol. vi. pp. 46-49. 1904. 



