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not lost, and to-day in good condition it forms part of the collection 

 of the American Entomological Society, from which it was described. 

 From the evidence of this important specimen it appears likely that 

 Neotettix bolivari and rotundifrons Hancock are synonymous with 

 Scudder's species, a possibility pointed out some time ago by Morse. 9 



The present collection contains an interesting series of fifty-six 

 specimens distributed as follows: Winter Park, August 26, 19(18, five 

 males, three females, one immature specimen; New Berne, August 

 24, 1908, four males, one female; Raleigh, June 3-September 7, 1904, 

 six males, seven females; Sulphur Springs, May 6-June 5, 1904. seven 

 males, twenty females, two immature individuals. The series is 

 dimorphic as to the length of the pronotum and wings, the long- 

 winged type being represented by nine specimens, seven of these 

 being in the Sulphur Springs series. The size variation is considerable, 

 the New Berne specimens rather curiously being without exception 

 as small or smaller than the smallest individuals from the other locali- 

 ties. Color presents numerous variations, some are blackish, others 

 dull reddish, some dusty gray-brown, others shades of ochraceous, 

 while the shoulder markings are present in more than half of the series, 

 occasionally with a well-developed humeral " saddle." 



The type from Maryland is short-winged and matches in size adult 

 females from Raleigh, the color, however, is more yellowish-ochraceous 

 than in any of the North Carolina specimens. 



Morse has recorded this species from fourteen localities in North 

 Carolina extending from Tarboro to Murphy and to an elevation of 

 5,500 feet on Roan Mountain. 



Nomotettix cristatus (Seudder). 



A single immature female of this species from 4,500 feet elevation 

 on Mt. Pisgah, taken October 1, 1904, is the only individual of the 

 species in the collection. Morse has recorded it from six localities in 

 the State, but this record carries the vertical distribution to a greater 

 height. This specimen was captured in the undergrowth of the low 

 deciduous forest near its upper limit. 

 Paxilla obesa (Seudder). 



This robust species has long been a will-o'-the-wisp in our work in 

 the southeastern States, and it is with great satisfaction that we are 

 able to record its capture at New Berne, August 24, four males and 

 one female being taken in a wet meadow in company with Clinoceph- 

 alus elegans and Melanoplus decorus. This capture considerably ex- 



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