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BRAZILIAN ORTHOPTERA 
These specimens are inseparable from a male of the species 
from Demerara. Bruner has recorded the species from Pard, 
and Chopard reported it from St. Jean du Maroni and Nouveau- 
Chantier, French Guiana, but the distribution is considerably- 
extended by the Porto Velho individual. 
GRYLLINAE 
Hemigryllus ortonii (Scudcler) 
1869. Xemobius ortonii Scudcler, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xii, p. 330. 
[Napo or Maranon (Rivers).] 
1877. H[emigryllus] kreichbaumeri Saussure, M41ang. Orthopt., ii, fasc. v, 
p. 268, pi. 12, fig. viii. [Brazil.] 
Independencia, Parahyba. (IVIann and Heath.) One female. 
Itacoatiara, Amazonas. (iMann and Baker.) One female. 
Rio jMadeira, five hundred miles from mouth. (Mann and 
Baker.) Two males, four females. 
Madeira-Mamore Railroad Camp 39, Rio Madeira. (Mann 
and Baker.) One male. 
jMadeira-Mamore Railroad Camp 41, Rio ^Madeira. (Mann 
and Baker.) One male. 
We have now before us the unique female type of Scudder’s 
Nemohius ortonii, which represents the insect on which Saussure 
eight years later erected the genus and species Hemigryllus 
kreichbaumeri. The ty^pe is somewhat discolored and consider- 
ably shrivelled and distorted, but the synonyuny of the two names 
is beyond question. 
The Independencia specimen is distinctly paler than any of 
the other individuals of the species here recorded, the darker 
pattern being weaker, more broken and less continuous, as well 
as the ground color paler, than in the other more intensively 
colored specimens. The ^Madeira series shows some variation 
in size, but not sufficient to cause any difficulty in the recognition 
of the species. 
The species has been recorded from as far south as Santa 
Rosa, Province of Salta, Argentina (Giglio-Tos), east to In- 
dependencia, Parahyba, Brazil, west to the Rio Napo, Ecuador 
(Bolivar). 
