184 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'lO 



The following series, collected on June isth, 1908, may be taken as 



a fairly good indication of the species which occur the earliest in this 



region. All were captured on the hillsides, scantily clothed with grasses 



and raspberry vines, on the Connecticut State rifle range, a few miles 



from New Haven. At this time other localities revealed no adult 



Orthoptera. 



Eritettix simplex Sc. 6 male, 6 female. AH these specimens were fresh, 



and a number of the females were still soft. In this region 



this species is very local in distribution, and I have never found 



it plentiful. This series was taken only by long continued 



search. 



Chloealtis conspersa Harr. 3 nymphs. 

 Arphia sulphured Fabr. 3 male, 2 female. 

 Chortophaga viridifasciata DeG. A few fresh specimens. 

 Hippiscus tuberculatus Palis, i male, i female. 

 Melanoplus minor Sc. 4 male recently emerged from the imago. 



After the frosts have begun in the Fall, I have searched about New 

 Haven to discover which species of Orthoptera were the latest to 

 survive. On the steep slopes of West Rock a few specimens of Mela- 

 noplus deleter Sc. Nowhere else was Orthoptera present except in the 

 grassy flats near the tidal marshes. In this situation, however, the 

 following species were found as late as the end of October. 

 Chorthippus curtipennis Harr. Plentiful and most of the specimens 



still in good condition. 

 Melanoplus femur-rubrum De G. Plentiful but all in somewhat bad 



shape. 



Melanoplus femoratus Burn. Scarce and in very poor condition. 

 Gryllus luctuosus Serv. In few numbers and all much tattered. 

 Nemobius fasciatus DeG. Numerous and in good condition. 



shape. MORGAN HEBARD. 



EVERES COMYNTAS AND AMYNTULA AGAIN A SECOND APPEAL. Sev- 

 eral American Entomologists were kind enough to respond to my 

 appeal last year for specimens and to help in unravelling the distri- 

 bution of these two insects, but I have not yet got to the bottom of it. 



Comyntas appears to fly right across the Continent up to California, 

 for Mr. Williams notes (NT. NEWS, 1909, p. 70) that he took both 

 comyntas and amyntula on the same ground near Mount Shasta, and 

 he has written to me confirming this ; if the two species are here quite 

 distinct, it is very interesting and points to their definite separation. 

 I should be most grateful for specimens taken off the same ground, 

 especially when flying simultaneously. I am told that amyntula only 

 has two broods which are distinct, while comyntas has a succession 

 of broods from May to the end of September. 



I am very anxious to get a series of each butterfly from Nevada, 



