286 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Scudderia anguslifolia Sauss.-Pict., Biol. Ceiitr. Amer., Orth., 328, 329, 



332 (1897). 

 Scudderia truncata Beut. ! , Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI., 252 



(1894). 



I think there can be little doubt that the Phan. septentrionalis of Ser- 

 ville is, as Brunner surmised, the species described by him under Harris' 

 name anguslifolia, and which has since been described by Beutenmiiller 

 as a new species under the name truncata. Serville's description will 

 apply in most respects to the other species as well, but in three partic- 

 ulars it points to this : The small size, the length of the ovipositor of the 

 female, and especially the lack of any mention of a pistillate anal seg- 

 ment in the male, while the subgenital plate is described with such par- 

 ticularity that had any process been present on the anal segment, it 

 would surely have been mentioned in so formal a description ; the case 

 being quite different in Harris' popular description of his angustifolia. 

 I am therefore constrained to restore Serville's name. The type does not 

 exist in the Paris Museum, as I am kindly informed by Dr. Charles 

 Brongniart, to whom I applied for particulars regarding it. 



As regards Heer's Phan. suturalis, which has been completely over- 

 looked, there can hardly be a doubt that it belongs here, for, after de- 

 scribing the subgenital plate, he goes on to say that the pistillate process 

 of the anal segment seen in curvicauda is wanting (" an der Riicken- 

 platte fehlt die vorn verbreitete zweilappige Verlangerung"), which is 

 only true of the present species among the forms from the Eastern United 

 States. His description, however, ajiplies to a variety which may bear 

 his name, suturalis, in which, as in some other of the species, the princi- 

 pal longitudinal veins of the tegmina carry a discolored stripe. 



I must express a doubt whether the female described by Saussure and 

 Pictet in the Biologia (from Panama ?) belongs to this species ; the 

 measurements of the ovipositor indicate quite a distinct species. I add 

 the measurements of a female from Massachusetts : Length of body, 

 20 mm. Pronotum, 5 mm. Tegmina, 26.5 mm. Middle breadth of 

 same, 7.5 mm. Length hind femora, 18.5 mm. Ovipositor, 8.75 mm. 

 Middle breadth of same, 2.5 mm. 



Maine (t. Brunner) ; Norway, Oxford Co., Me., Smith (M. C. Z.). 

 Mass. (S. H. S.); Wellesley, Norfolk Co. (Morse); and Seekonk, 

 Bristol Co., Bridgham (M. C. Z.), Mass. Vineland, Cumberland Co., 

 N. J. (Beutenmiiller). Georgia (t. Heer). Chiriqui and Bugaba, 

 Panama (t. Saussure and Pictet, — but see last paragraph, above). 



