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Like the two preceding species, even the heaviest females fly well, and 

 I have never seen one jump except when in such close quarters that 

 flight was impossible. (M. H.) 



Schistoceroa damnifica (Saussure). 



An interesting series of fifty specimens of this species is included in 

 the material studied. The females are all larger than Northern speci- 

 mens, and have the median stripe of the pronotum more obscure. 

 The males, however, are very similar to New Jersey representatives, 

 except that the tegmina appear to be slightly longer. The material 

 comprises adults taken in every month in the year except August. 



The males of this species are active and are found common in the dead 

 leaves under scrub oaks, hickories, sweet gums and other trees in the 

 pine woods. They fly well and are so much the color of their surround- 

 ings that they are very hard to follow. The females are, on the other 

 hand, invariably large and unwieldy, and seem to find great difficulty 

 in even jumping, and they very seldom fly. (M. H.) 



Gymnoscistetes pusillus Scudder. 



This very peculiar species was found by Mr. Hebard to be fairly 

 common in one locality near Thomas ville, and a series of twenty-one 

 individuals, sixteen males and five females, are included in the series 

 studied. They are quite constant in size, but in a number of other 

 characters considerable variation is exhibited. The anterior and 

 posterior margins of the pronotum are truncate in some, emarginate 

 in others ; the number of spines on the external margins of the posterior 

 tibiae varies from eight to ten; the median carina of the pronotum is 

 quite distinct in some, absent in others, while the inferior portion of 

 the frontal costa varies greatly in the strength of the constriction. 

 Color is rather constant, such variation as is exhibited being in intensity 

 and not pattern. The females are uniformly lighter in color than the 

 males. 



The following color notes were made from a fresh male specimen: 

 Dark lateral bars seal brown, light lateral bars pale glaucous green be- 

 coming emerald-green on the meta- and mesopleura; dorsal surface 

 a semi-metallic drab becoming quite pale toward the dark lateral 

 bars; eyes of the same color as the dark lateral bars, obscurely spotted 

 with drab; antennae of the same color as the dorsal surface, strongly 

 suffused with blackish apically; limbs very pale yeflo wish-green 

 minutely blotched with umber. 



I took one specimen of this species in the wire-grass of the pine forest 

 near town on November 30, 1904, but although I searched the locality 



