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Hippisous phoenicopterus (Burmeister). 



A series of ten males and four females from Sulphur Springs, taken 

 May S to June 13, 1904, and two males and one female from Raleigh, 

 secured May 19 to July 21, 1904, in old fields represent this species. 



Two males from Sulphur Springs and the female from Raleigh have 

 the head, pronotum and caudal femora greenish, a condition seen in 

 specimens from other localities and which is analogous to that noticed 

 in some individuals of the genus Gomphocerns. This species is one of 

 the forms which appears in the spring in company with Eritettix 

 simplex, Chortophaga viridifasciata, Arphia sulphured and Hippiscus 

 apiculoius in the open grassy areas. 



Hippiscus rugosus (Scudder). 



Sulphur Springs is represented in the series of this species by six 

 males and five females, taken September 2 to 29, while five males and 

 two females secured at Raleigh August 4 to September 2 in pasture 

 and broomstraw field are in the collection. Three males and four 

 females were taken at Winter Park, August 26 on sandy spots in pine 

 woods, where the species was numerous. The specimens from Winter 

 Park are particularly interesting in that while the males are no larger 

 than individuals of that sex from Sulphur Springs the females are 

 considerably larger, in this respect exceeding any seen by the authors. 



This species is now known to range on the Atlantic slope from 

 southern Maine (Norway) to northern Florida (Lake City). 

 Hippiscus apioulatus (Harris)." 



Twelve males and thirteen females, taken at Sulphur Springs April 

 13 to June 13, 1904, constitute the first record for the species from 

 North Carolina and the first in the east with definite data from south 

 of the District of Columbia, 



The subdecussate pale pronotal markings are mure or less marked 

 in twelve specimens. 



13 It is unfortunately necessary to substitute this name for ''Hippiscus tuber- 

 culatus" of authors, which is quoted from Acridium tuberculatum Palisot de 

 Beauvoi-s (Ins. Rec. d'Af. et Amer., p. 145, pi. 4, fig. 1) whose figure clearly pic- 

 tures this species, but who placed as a reference to the species Gryttus tuberculatus 

 Fabricius, an Old World species belonging to another genus, with which he 

 considered his material from the United States identical. In consequence his 

 name is not available and the next must be taken. Harris's Locusta apicutata 

 (In Hitchcock, Rep. Geol. Mass., 2d cd., p. 576, 1835) is merely a renaming of 

 Beauvois's species appearing in this form: 

 "Locusta L. 



apiculata. fuberculata P. de Beauv. F?" 



Although unaccompanied by a diagnosis, this name is clearly intended to 

 replace the misidentified tuberculatum of Beauvois, and as such we are under the 

 the necessity of using; it. 



