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this widely distributed species. The Sulphur Springs series was 

 captured among cat-tails. 



All of the males are in the green and brown phase, four of the eight 

 females in a uniform green phase and the remaining four in a uniform 

 brownish phase. 

 Mermiria alacris Scudder. 



This beautiful species was found to be fairly numerous but very 

 wary in oak scrub along the edge of pine woods at New Berne on 

 August 21, and equally numerous but easier to secure in long-leaf 

 pine woods at Winter Park on August 26. Two males and one female 

 were secured at the former locality and five males and four females 

 at the latter. In size there is considerable variation, which appears 

 from the material in hand, comprising Florida material as well the 

 North Carolina series, to be purely individual in character, more 

 marked in the male than in the female sex. The coloration is quite 

 constant, varying only in the extent of facial suffusion and the strength 

 of the medio-longitudinal streak on the head and pronotum. 



The only previous North Carolina record for the species is a doubtful 

 one based on a young individual from Salisbury. 



Syrbula admirabilis (Uhler). 



The localities from which this species is represented in the collec- 

 tions are: Bayville, Va., August 19, one immature female; Edenton, 

 August 20, one male, two females; Winter Park, August 26, two 

 females; Raleigh, August 17-September 2, three males, four females; 

 Sulphur Springs, September 24-October 6, one male, two females. 



A variety of habitats are represented as the labels indicate a range 

 of environment extending from dry pinewoods undergrowth at Raleigh 

 and Winter Park to wet woods at Bayville and wet drains at Edenton. 



In size the North Carolina specimens are nearer to individuals 

 from New Jersey than they aie to the extremely large Florida repre- 

 sentatives. 



Eritettix simplex (Scudder). 



A most interesting series of one hundred and forty-eight specimens 

 of this species taken at Sulphur Springs is in the collection. Of this 

 representation seventy-eight are adult males, sixty-five adult females 

 and five immature individuals, the dates extending from April 2 to 

 June 12, the immatu.e individuals having been taken on April 2 and 

 13. A pair from Raleigh, taken April 13 and May 5 in broom straw 

 field, have also been examined. 



The species was found locally plentiful in the low grasses of the 



