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Homoeogamia bolliana Saussure. 



Brownsville, June. (Snow.) i $ . 



This specimen is more infuscate than usual in central Texan 

 specimens, but it is not the extreme dark form to which Cau- 

 dell has applied the name nigricans (1. c. p. 107). 



Lat India schwarzi Can dell. 



Brownsville, June. (Snow.) i . 



This specimen is slightly smaller than Caudell's original 

 measurements, the tegmina being 5.5 instead of 7 to 8 milli- 

 metres in length. 



MANTIDAE. 



Stagmomantis Carolina (Linnaeus). 



Brownsville, June. (Snow.) 'i . 



Bactromantis virga Scudder. 



Brownsville, June. (Snow.) i 9. 



Theoclytes chlorophaea (Blanchard). 



Brownsville, June. (Snow.) i immature individual. 

 This specimen has been compared with an adult from Mexico. 



PHASMIDAE. 

 Diapheromera persimllis Caudell. 



Brownsville, June. (Snow.) i 9. 



As far as can be determined from the female sex this speci- 

 men appears to belong to Caudell's species. 



ACRIDIDAE. 

 Apotettix brevipennis Hancock. 



Esperanza Ranch, Brownsville, Aug. 13. (Schaeffer.) i 9. 

 This species was described from Paige, Texas. 



Paratettix texanus Hancock. 



Brownsville, June. (Snow.) i $ , i 9. Esperanza Ranch, 

 Brownsville, July. (Schaeffer.) i 9- 



Orphulella picturata Scudder. 



Brownsville, June. (Snow.) i , i 9. 



These specimens are not as highly colored as Galveston in- 

 dividuals. 



Opeia pallida Bnmer. 



Brownsville, June. (Snow. ) i , i 9 . 



These specimens appear to belong to this species, which was 



