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It is evident, from the material which we have examined, that 

 the present species decreases somewhat in size in its southern 

 distribution, but even greater variation is sometimes found in a 

 series from a single locality. 



The species is almost invariably found in or near marsh, swamp 

 or bog. It is one of the very few destructive Phaneropterids 

 found in the United States, doing particular damage to cran- 

 berry crops. 



During the summer of 1914 the species was frequentlj'- observed 

 on the coast of New Jersey along the salt marshes, where, after 

 dark, it would frequently be found locally abundant in areas of 

 Scirpus, resting head down and motionless near the tips of these 

 rushes and frequently beaded with dew. On bright warm after- 

 noons it was observed in the taller vegetation near the border 

 of the salt marshes, where the males were moving actively about 

 emitting their rather prolonged and harsh stridulation. 



This insect is known from Norway, Maine, to extreme southern 

 Florida, while the westernmost localities at which it has been 

 taken are^^ Forsyth, Montana; Casper, Wyoming; Morton 

 County, Kansas and Clarendon and Rosenberg, Texas. 



Specimens Examined: 191 ; 104 males, 79 females, 5 immature males and 3 

 immature females. 



Seabrook, New Hampshire, (H. A. Eaton), 1 cf ,' [U. S. N. M.]. 



North Saugus, Massachusetts, IX, 12, 1906, (C. C. Gowdey), 1 d", [U. S. 

 N. M.]. 



Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts, VII, 15, 1908, (D. H. demons), 1 cT 

 n., [U. S. N. M.]. 



Saunderstown, Rhode Island, IX, 9, 1913, (H.; in bog), 6 cf , 3 9 . 



Erie, Pennsylvania, 2 9, [Pa. St. Dept. Zool.]. 



Beaver, Pennsylvania, IX, 13, 1 cT, [Pa. St. Dept. Zool.]. 



Indiana, Pennsylvania, VIII, 14, 1 d", [Pa. St. Dept. Zool.]. 



Duncannon, Pennsylvania, VIII, 8, 1 cf , [Pa. St. Dept. Zool.]. 



Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, VIII, 8 to X, 15, 1909, 5 &, [Pa. St. Dept. 

 Zool.]. 



Rockville, Pennsylvania, VII, 29 to VIII, 22, 3 d^, 1 9, [Pa. St. Dept. 

 Zool.]. 



Enola, Pennsylvania, IX, 7, 1909, 1 9 , [Pa. St. Dept. Zool.]. 



Eberly's Mills, Pennsylvania, VIII, 27, 1909, 1 9, [Pa. St. Dept. Zool.]. 



Philadelphia Neck, Pennsylvania, IX, 21, 25, 1904, (H. W. Wenzel), 2 cf , 

 2 9, [ A. N. S. P.]. ^ 



i^We feel certain that if Scudder's record for the species from Ogden, 

 Utah, is correct, it is based upon an accidental importation of some sort. 



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