56 STUDIES IN AMERICAN TETTIGONIIDAE (oRTHOPTERA) 



Jacksonville, Florida, (Priddey), 2 cT, 1 9, [Hebard Cln.]. 



South Jacksonville, Florida, IX, 7 and 28, 1913, (W. T. Davis), ScT, [Davis 

 Cln.]. 



Ortega, Florida, IX, 6 and 27, 1913, (W. T. Davis), 3 cT, [Davis Cln.]. 



Sanford, Florida, (G. B. Frazer), 2 c^, [M. C. Z.]. 



In addition to these localities we have already recorded the species as nigripes, 

 nitiduniand as the synonymous pulchcllum from Belleplain, Riverton, Lucaston, 

 Gloucester, Clemen ton. West Creek and Sea Isle City, New Jersey; Edenton 

 aijd Raleigh, North Carolina; Thomasville, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Palatka, 

 Detroit, Lakeland and Chokoloskee, Florida. 



Orchelimum nigripes Scudder (Figs. 11, 25, 49, 50 and 76.) 



?1869. Xvphidiuvi validum Walker, Catal. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., ii, p. 277. 



[No locahty.] 

 1875. Orchelimum nigripes Scudder, Proc. Boston. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, p. 



459. [Dallas, Texas.] 

 1891. X[iphidium] {Orchelimum) robustum Redtenbacher, Verh. k.-k. zool.- 



bot. Gesell. Wien, xh, pp. 494, 499. [New Orleans, Louisiana.] 



We have examined the type of the present species in the col- 

 lection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. It is a male 

 from Dallas, Texas, bearing labels reading, "8cudder's Type 

 1875, Orchelimum nigripes Scudd.," also, "Boll's no. 21." The 

 measurements of the type are as follows: length of body, 17 mm.; 

 length of pronotum, 5; greatest caudal width of pronotum, 3.5; 

 length of tegmen, 21 ; length of caudal femur, 16.6. 



Through the kindness of Mr. A. N. Caudell we have before us 

 notes which he made from the type of Walker's validum. Taken 

 with the characters given in the original description of the same 

 the combination appears to fit the present form better than any 

 other in the genus, this being the position assigned validum by 

 Kirby. However, there is nothing really conclusive in the agree- 

 ment of these features and Mr. Caudell's comment is, that, while 

 he had time to make but a hurried examination of the specimen, 

 he is "very sure it is not the same as our nigripes. " Taken alto- 

 gether it seems best to give the name validum a queried position 

 under this species, leaving for the future the exact determination 

 of its status. 



The above synonymy is evident after carefully studying the 

 literature. Redtenbacher's rohustum is certainly 'nigripes with 

 the exception of the caudal limbs, these in all probability not be- 

 longing to the specimen. Their size, i. e., length of the femora, 

 is distinctly less than that normal for specimens of the genus of 



