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lengths and generally very obscure, usually scarcely capable 

 of being distinguished, except the first two, which are very 

 conspicuously separated from each other and from the rest of 



the antennae. 



Diapheromera arizonensis Caud. 



An immature female specimen from Madera Canyon, St. 

 Rita Mountains, Arizona, taken by Mr. E. A. Schwarz in 

 June, 1898, is referred to this species. This species shows 

 cerci similar to those of Diapheromera femorata, and not long 

 and slender, as in D. veliei. 



Timema californica Scudd. 



On June 9 to 16 of the present year, Mr. H. S. Barber beat 

 this species in some numbers from fir trees in Humboldt 

 County, California, at an altitude of about 1,400 ft. Of the 

 nineteen specimens taken, not one was a male. The males 

 may have clung more tenaciously to the trees, and thus 

 escaped capture, or they may be much scarcer than the 

 females. Mr. Barber states that the living insect is green, 

 like the fir leaves, which they mimic so closely as to be 

 scarcely discernible so long as they remain motionless, which 

 they do for some time after being beaten off the tree into the 

 beating net. They were taken from the lower branches of a 

 clump of large trees, which stood somewhat apart from denser 

 woodland. 



Anisomorpha ferruginea Palisot de Beauvois. 



My record of this species from Pennsylvania in my recent 

 paper on the Phasmidae (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvi, p. 882) 

 is probably erroneous. The label on the specimens reads 

 " Tallulah, Pa." As no locality of this name exists in the 

 above-mentioned State, Georgia or Louisiana is no doubt 

 intended, as Tallulah occurs in both States. 



A Method of Collecting. 



BY F. M. McELFRESH, Salem, Oregon. 

 While enjoying a few days' rest, I wish to tell the readers 

 of the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS about one method of collect- 

 ing, which I have never seen mentioned elsewhere. This 



