424 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Scolioplanes robustus Meinert, Proc. Amer. philos. soc, 1886, 23, 

 p. 224. 



Linotenia robusta (Meinert) Bollman, Entom. Americana, 1888, 4, 

 p. 4. Bull. 46 U. S. N. M., 1893, p. 76. 



Linotenia fuka (Sager) Bollman, Bull. 46 U. S. N. M., 1893, pp. 92, 

 98, 109, 184." 



Localities. — Gainsville, Bremen, Lula, and Tallulah Falls (also 

 Indian Springs seq. Bollman), Ga. ; Landrum and Taylor's, S. C; 

 Saluda, N. C; Russellville, Unaka Springs, and Johnson City (also 

 Mossy Creek and Beaver Creek seq. Bollman), Tenn.; Chatham, 

 Natural Bridge, and near Washington, Va.; White Sulphur, W. Va.; 

 Fulton, Ky. 



This, the most common Linotenia in the northern states, is also 

 well distributed in the northern part and mountainous sections of the 

 southern states. The southern specimens are larger on the average 

 than northern specimens and show a tendency toward an increased 

 number of legs, males often having as many as 53 and 55 pairs and 

 the females as many as 57 and 59 pairs. At first it seemed that the 

 specimens represented a distinct species; but more careful study of 

 material from many localities shows that intergradation is complete 

 and leaves no satisfactory basis upon which to maintain Meinert's 

 robusta, which agrees with these southern specimens. The increased 

 number of legs is a phenomenon met with in various members of 

 this order which have a wide range in proceeding from northern locali- 

 ties to more southern or in going from high altitudes to low. Meinert 

 describes robusta as nearly glabrous; but the condition of his type 

 shows this to be due to rubbing. In the antennae of specimens pre- 

 served in alcohol there may be considerable variation due in some 

 specimens to differences in the degree of telescoping of the articles, 

 and in some to differences in the recentness of moulting. In the type 

 of robusta the articles are well separated so that the shortness of the 

 ultimate article in comparison with the two preceding is exaggerated. 



Linotenia chionophila (Wood). 



Strigamia chionophila Wood, Journ. Acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1862, ser. 

 2, 5, p. 50. Trans. Amer. philos. soc, 1865, new ser., 13, p. 189. 



Scolioplanes chionophilus (Wood) Meinert, Proc. Amer. philos. soc, 

 1886, 23, p. 223. 



Locality. — Lexington, Ky. 



Ten specimens were secured by the writer at Lexington, Ky., on 



