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Brunneria. Saussure. 



A single female specimen of this genus, remarkable for its peculiar 

 antennse, is in my collection, collected by Aaron on the Gulf Coast of 

 Texas. It is distinct from the species heretofore described, all four of 

 which come from S. America, the genus being unknown in Mexico and 

 Central America. It may be called B. borealis. It is completely 

 apterous, very elongate and slender, greenish with a ferruginous tinge 

 which is predominant on the thorax ; the antennte, pallid at base, 

 are pale ferruginous in the swollen portion, growing luteous beyond ; the 

 posterior part of the pronotum is three times as long as the anterior and 

 is rather distinctly beaded with tubercules or blunt spinules along its 

 lateral margins ; the supra-anal plate is sublanceolate, much longer than 

 its basal breadth, and the cerci slender, delicately tapering, about half as 

 long as the fore femora. Length of body about 50 mm.; of antennae 

 about 12 mm. This specimen is doiibless immature, for a second, much 

 larger, mature specimen from Texas, obtained by A. Agassiz, is in the 

 Museum of Com p. Zoology. It has short and broad tegmina, reaching 

 only the middle of the metanotum, and the body is 88 mm. long. 



Oligonvx Saussure. 



Three species belonging to this genus, as latterly restricted, have 

 been described from the United States : 0. Scudderi Sauss., from Georgia; 

 O. Uhleri Stal, from Louisiana ; and 0. boUianus Sauss.-Zehntn., from 

 Texas and Northern Mexico. The first has also been credited, by Stal, to 

 Texas, and is figured under this name by Glover (111. N. A. Ent. , Orth., pi. 

 16, fig. II, $ ), and as Ma?itis missouriensis Riley, by the same (Ibid., pi. 

 13, fig II, S). Whether these nominal species are distinct from one 

 another I have not now sufficient means of deciding. O. Scudderi, 

 though labelled as coming from Georgia, was originally thought by Saussure 

 to really come from Central America, but he is now evidently of a differ- 

 ent opinion, as it is noi included in the Biologia Centrali-Americana. I 

 have a specimen from Carolina which agrees with his description of O. 

 Scudderi, and an immature specimen, apparently of this genus and about 

 6 mm. long, was found with others running about in a house in Water- 

 ville, N. Y., and sent to Mr. J. A. Lintner with enquiries. It proved to 

 have probably hatched from eggs accidentally sent in the "moss" 

 (Usnea) used in packing a barrel of oranges from Florida. So the genus 

 occurs in the South-eastern States. My Carolina specimen is a trifle 



