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specimens were taken at night attracted to the lights. The lights 

 referred to here and elsewhere in this paper at Sulphur Springs were 

 the electric lights along the verandas of the Asheville School, which is 

 situated on the edge of the heavy deciduous forest. The roaches 

 attracted to these lights would usually fly about wildly for a time and 

 then rest quietly on the nearby walls and ceilings unless disturbed. 



Ceratinoptera lutea Saussure and Zehntner. 



A single female from Raleigh, taken June 23, 1904, from under 

 rubbish, is in the collection. It fully agrees with a Florida individual 

 of the same sex. 



Cryptocerous punctulatus Scudder. 



A most interesting series of this singular roach is now before us, 

 demonstrating the vertical range of the species in North Carolina to 

 be at least three thousand feet, specimens in the collection being 

 from Sulphur Springs, twenty-five hundred feet, and Old Bald Moun- 

 tain, fifty-five hundred feet elevation. The localities represented 

 are: Sulphur Springs, May 25, June 3-13, 1904, seventy-nine indi- 

 viduals of both sexes, adult and immature; Old Bald Mountain, 5,500 

 feet elevation, May 14, 1904, three adults and one immature individual. 

 An adult individual in the collection of the Academy taken at Blowing 

 Rock, Watauga County, by Joseph Willcox has also been examined. 



These insects are found in the partially decayed chestnut logs in 

 the forest. They were never found except in parts of the logs where 

 the decayed wood was soft, punky and wet. In such places a colony 

 of a number of specimens would be found in galleries just under the 

 bark and in the log itself, often several specimens in close proximity. 

 The localities from which the species is now known are New York; 

 Pennsylvania: Virginia; Kentucky; Cumberland Gap, Kentucky; 

 Tennessee ; North Carolina ; Sulphur Springs, Old Bald Mountain and 

 Blowing Rock. N. C; Rome and Clayton, Ga. ; California; Glendale 

 and Divide, Ore. 



MANTIDiE. 

 Stagmomantis Carolina (Johannson). 



An immature female of this species was taken August 19, 1908, at 

 Bayville, Ya., by Rehn. Two adult females in the Hebard Collec- 

 tion are from Montgomery County, Virginia, and South Carolina 

 The latter has the wings roseate. 



ACRIDID^. 

 Paratettix cucullatus (Burmeister). 



This species is represented by a series of twenty-one North Carolina 



