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such as bananas, have been handled. One of these specimens 

 was taken in a store at Manahawken, N. ]., on September i, 

 1913, by Mr. H. S. Harbeck, the other having been secured 

 on a wharf in Philadelphia.* These specimens were found on 

 comparison with material of limbata from Paraguay and north- 

 ern Argentina to represent an allied but very distinct species, 

 the characters of which were well shown by Drury and Beau- 

 vois. Knowing that the probable source of bananas received 

 at Philadelphia was Jamaica, we examined an unworked col- 

 lection of Jamaican Orthoptera which had been placed in our 

 hands for study and were pleased to find a specimen of the 

 same species included in it. This specimen is a female and was 

 collected at Palm Beach, Montego Bay, Jamaica, on March 3, 

 1911. This individual proves 'the correctness of Drury's local- 

 ity, which had, however, corroboration in a record by Walker 

 under the name druryi. It is necessary to add the West Indies 

 to the range of this genus and subfamily, something which 

 most recent authors have not done, the general tendency being 

 apparently to discredit Drury's locality. Aside from this, 

 however, the senior author some years ago recorded Nyctibora 

 mexicana from Jamaica.f 



It is quite probable the accidental New England records of 

 N. sericea given by Scudder^ and Henshaw refer to this 

 species instead of true sericea (= limbata), which latter, being 

 South American, is less likely to be imported than a West In- 

 dian species. 



We are now able to place this peculiarly West Indian spe- 

 cies in its proper position as a valid species, the following 

 references and differential characters enabling one to recog- 

 nize it. 



*The latter specimen was recorded by Rehn (Entom. News, XIII, 

 p. 309, Dec., 1902) as Nyctibora sericea. Individuals of true sericea 

 were not available for comparison at that date. 



t Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc., XXIX, p. 130. 



t Proc. Davenp. Acad. Nat. StiL, VIII, p. 9 [Massachusetts] ; Psyche 

 IX, p. 100 [about Boston]. 



Psyche, IX, p. 119 [Springfield, Mass.]. 



