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no solid postocular bars and the dorsal surface of the head and prono- 

 tum is marked with a pair of longitudinal velvety blackish or brownish 

 lines. Between the two types are numerous individuals which seem 

 to bridge more or less completely the gap between the extremes. In 

 some the dorsum is uniformly dark with distinct broad, postocular 

 bars, in others the dorsum is almost uniform dark while the postocular 

 bars are lacking. The coloration of this species offers a curious 

 parallelism to that of Psolcessa texana Scudder which we have recently 

 treated in detail. 11 the pale type with the decided postocular bars 

 beino; analogous to Psoloessa buddiana, the strongly dorsal bilineate 

 type to P. ferruginea and the dull form to true P. texana. 



The range of this species extends from Connecticut (New Haven) to 

 northeastern Alabama (Valley Head and Lookout Mountain), east to 

 Raleigh, N. C. Its zonal correlation would appear to be Carolinian. 



Amblytropidia oocidentalis (Saussure). 



Two adult males and one adult female from Raleigh, taken April 

 13, 22 and May 19 in broomstraw fields and a series of seventeen 

 immature individuals in three stages of development taken at New 

 Berne, August 24, have been examined. 



The only North Carolina records are from Raleigh, Selma and New 

 Berne, these constituting the most northern reliable records for the 

 species. 



Orphulella pelidna tBurmeister).« 



A single female of this species was taken at Cape Henry, Va., 

 August 19, on dry beach grass, while at Bayville, Va., August 19, 

 a single specimen of the same sex was secured at a wet spot in woods. 

 At New Berne, August 24, six males and one female were secured in a 

 wet meadow, while two males and one female were captured in dry 

 pine woods at Winter Park, August 26. A series of twelve males and 

 eleven females taken at Raleigh, July 18 to September 20, were secured 

 in pine woods, in pasture, in stubble field and at the edge of marsh 

 land. 



11 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1908, pp. 381-383. 



12 After numerous attempts to differentiate Scudder's Orphulella pratorum, 

 we are compelled to use the oldest available name and allow Scudder's name 

 to remain in abeyance, to be properly associated or relegated to the synonymy 

 at some future date. However, it might be well to state that in using the anten- 

 nal character given by Scudder (Canad. En torn., XXXI, p. 179) to separate 

 0. pratorum and pelidna, nearly every specimen from the eastern United States 

 which we have examined, and we have seen nearly a thousand individuals from 

 that region, would fall into pratorum. We have never seen any specimens of 

 Orphulella from Pennsylvania, the type locality of pelidna, except individuals 

 of 0. speciosa, while New Jersey specimens by Scudder's key would fall into 

 O. pratorum. It seems quite likely to us that the antennal length is an unsatis- 

 factory character. 



