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spersed dry spots tangled with smilax, the most striking captures 

 being Melanoplus decorus, Clinocephalus elegans, Amblytropidia occi- 

 dentalis, Paxilla obesa, Neotettix femoratus and Tettigidea prorsa; third, 

 tall dry brush in tall rather open pine woods where Mermiria ulacris 

 and Schistocerca alutacea and americana were secured. 



Winter Park, N'ew Hanover County, North Carolina. August 26, 

 1908. At this point which is between Wilmington and Wrightsville, 

 collecting was done in a piece of moderate-sized, long-leafed pine woods, 

 the drier portions of which were carpeted with wire-grass and the 

 moister hollows grown up with waist-high grass. The drier sections 

 were frequented by Arphia xanthoptera, Scirtetica picta, Hippiscus 

 rugosus, Psinidia fenestralis, Syrbula admirabilis, Orphulella pelidna r 

 Melanoplus keeleri and Amblycorypha uhleri. The wet grassy areas 

 were inhabited by Clinocephalus elegans, Melanoplus decorus, Paroxya 

 atlantica, Orchelimum glaberrimum and Odontoxiphidium apterum. 

 The most striking species found in both habitats was Mermiria alacris. 



The number of species taken at each of the principal localities was 

 as follows: Eden ton, ten; New Berne, twenty-eight; Winter Park, 

 nineteen; Raleigh, fifty-seven; Sulphur Springs, fifty-one; Balsam, 

 four; Jones's Knob, five; Mt. Pisgah, several elevations, fifteen. 



A few records from Bayville and Cape Henry, Princess Anne County, 

 Virginia, based on material taken by the senior author in 1908, are 

 included to make the report on that year's collecting complete. 



Many species have been recorded from Raleigh by Brimley in a 

 recent paper of his on the Orthoptera of that region, 2 and full credit 

 for the pioneer work in faunistic Orthopterology in North Carolina 

 must be given to his paper and to the very important study of a 

 number of localities in the State made by Morse, 3 both of which are 

 referred to in the following pages. 



BLATTID^]. 

 Isclmoptera deropeltiformis (Brunner). 



At Sulphur Springs two adult males of this species were taken 01* 

 May 8 and 10, 1904, an immature male on April 13th of the same year 

 and an immature female captured September 23, 1905. The Raleigh 

 series contains a very interesting lot of ten adult females taken or 

 bred on dates ranging from May 25 to June 25, 1904, and June 7 to> 

 July 1, 1905. An immature female taken June 21, 1904, was collected 



2 Ent. News, XIX, pp. 16-21, 190S. 



3 Carnegie Inst. Publ. No. 18, 1904. 





