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I follow Stal and Brunner in the determination of this as De Geer's 

 species, aided by a specimen still in my possession, which I compared with 

 the type more than thirty years ago and identified as the same. 



After an examination of Harris' types of his Plian. anfjustlfoUa in 

 1862, I agreed with Uhler (Harr., Ins. Inj. Veg., 3 ed. 161, note) that 

 it was the same as curvicauda De Geer ; but at that time, as stated in 

 my note above, I recognized but a single species in New England, so that 

 in the present study of the species I have not been very confident of my 

 former determination. At present there remains only a damaged teg- 

 men of one specimen and the pronotum of another, but by their aid and 

 by careful and repeated comparisons of New England specimens of all 

 the species occurring there I still find that angustifolia must be regarded 

 as a synonym of curvicauda. The tegmen is much too large for New 

 England specimens of either furcata or septentrionalis, too slender for 

 pistillata, and agrees better, as does the broader pronotum, with curvi- 

 cauda than with texensis, which last, moreover, is a much rarer species 

 in New England. Brunner was led into regarding septenfrionalis as 

 Harris' angustifolia from my sending him specimens of septentrionalis 

 marked as curvicauda, and by the absence in Harris' description of any 

 reference to a pistillate anal segment, while mentioning the subgenital 

 plate ; but the specimens preserved, such as they are, entirely preclude 

 this, and Harris' running description was so general and so little technical 

 that the absence of mention of the peculiar anal segment is not surprising. 



Fryeburg, Oxford Co., Me. (Morse). Hampton (S. H. S.) and King- 

 ston, Denton (Morse), Rockingham Co., N. H. Brandon, Rutland Co., 

 (S. H. S.), and Brattleboro', Windham Co. (Morse), Vt. South Hadley, 

 Hampshire Co. (Morse) ; Gloucester, Essex Co. (Spragne) ; Maiden 

 (Sprague), Sherborn (Morse), and Woburn, Shute (M. C. Z.), Middlesex 

 Co. ; Wellesley, Blue Hills, and Dover (Morse), Canton, AValpole, Mil- 

 ton, and Wollaston (Sprague), Norfolk Co. ; Scituate, Plymouth Co. 

 (Sprague) ; Provincetown (Morse, S. H. S.) ; Hyannis (S. H. S.), and 

 Woods Holl (Morse), Barnstable Co. ; and West Chop, Dukes Co. 

 (Morse), Mass. Wickford, Washington Co., and Block Island, Newport 

 Co., R. I. (Morse). Thompson, Windham Co., Canaan, Litchfield Co., 

 New Haven and North Haven, New Haven Co., and Stamford, Fairfield 

 Co., Conn. (Morse). Long Island (S. H. S.) and Ithaca. Tompkins Co. 

 (t. Beutenmiiller), N. Y. Pennsylvania (t. De Geer). Maryland, Uhler 

 (S. H. S.). Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio, Denton (Morse). Putnam, 

 Vigo and Lake Co., Ind., Blatchley (S. H. S., Morse). Michigan, Miles 

 (S. H. S.). Jefferson, Greene Co., and Dallas Co., Allen (S. H. S.), 



