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reddish-brown, without any trace of the fuscous stripes which are so con- 

 stant a feature in fasciatus. The general coloration is light reddish- 

 brown, with the dark markings more distinct than m fasciatus. The eyes 

 are more globose than is usual in that species. It may be only an 

 atypical specimen oi fasciatus, but it appears to show the chief peculiarities 

 by which canus is known from the latter. ^ 



6. Nemobius maculatus, Blatchley. 



N. maculatus, Bl., Psyche, IX., igoo, 52. 



On Aug. 22, 1903, when collecting near Tobermory, on the Bruce 

 Peninsula, I found a small Nemobius in considerable numbers jumping 

 about in a small patch of moss in the spruce woods. I captured 4 c? c? 

 and 39?) and on my return to Toronto sent a pair to Mr. Scudder, who 

 named them N. maculatus. They do not agree with Blatcfiley's descrip- 

 tion in all respects, and I do not feel satisfied that they really belong to 

 that species. The ovipositor in maculatus is equal to or very slightly 

 shorter than the hind femora, whereas in my specimens it is slightly 

 longer in one and distinctly longer in the other two. The tegmina are 

 shorter than the average in N. fasciatus, but are longer than those of 

 typical maculatus, according to the description. They agree with the 

 latter in having fine cross veinlets in the $ tegmina. The coloration 

 does not show the spotty pattern of maculatus in any marked degree. 



Length of body, ^ 8 mm., $ 8 mm.; pronotum, $ 1.5 mm., % 1.6 

 mm; tegmen, ^ 3.5 mm., ? 2.75 mm.; hind femur, $ 5 ram., $ 5.3 

 mm.; ovipositor, 6.5 mm. 



7. Nemobius palustris, Blatchley. The Marsh Ground Cricket. 



N. palustris, Bl., Psyche, IX., 1900, 53. 



Length of body, $ 5.5 mm., ? 6 mm.; pronotum, c? $ i mm.; 

 tegmen, (J 2. 7 mm., V 2 mm.; hind femur, ^ 3.5 mm., 9 4 mm.; 

 ovipositor, 3 mm. 



On the 1 8th of August, 1903, I came across this handsome little 

 cricket in a sphagnum swamp on the margin of Ragged Lake, Algonquin 

 Park. The swamp bordered the lake for a few hundred yards about the 

 mouth of a small creek, and was of a very interesting character. It was 

 carpeted throughout with a deep growth of sphagnum moss, in which 

 cranberries ( Oxycoccus macroca?'pus) were growing in the greatest pro- 

 fusion. Pitcher-plants ( Sarracenia purpurea), various Ericaceaj, such as 

 Andromeda polifolia and Chamcedaphue calyculata, were also conspicu- 

 ous among the plants, the only trees being a few dwarf specimens of black 



