780 ]>li()('KEI)IN(}S.OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. voi,. xxvi. 



8. LITANEUTRIA MINOR Scudder. 

 Stagmatoptera minor Hcvinniii, Kept. U. 8. (jeol. Hurv. Nebr., 1871, p. 251. 

 Females of what I take for this species were taken at Golden and 

 Fort Collins in August. The greedy habits of this species were 

 rocontly noted." 



Family PHASMID.E. 



g. DIAPHEROMERA DENTRICUS Stal. 



I >i)t /ihiroinera (Indrirns i^TAh, Kec. Orth., Ill, 1875, p. 7(). 



One male, June '21, at Victoria, Texas. This specimen was on weedsll 

 by the roadside. Mr. Mitchell tells me that this tine large walking 

 stick is not unconuuon at times on grape vines in the river bottoms. 



Family ACRIDIID^E. 

 s^xi>iainii>^ a\T±;'r'^riG-i:N"..s]. 



10. TETTIX CRASSUS Morse. 

 TeUh-rrassux Morse, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, VII, 1899, p. 201. 



Two specimens of what Professor Morse thinks is probably this 

 species were taken at Platte Canyon on Ma}' 10. The median carina 

 of the thorax is marked with white, strongly contrasted with the rest 

 of the insect. 



II. TETTIX INCURVATUS Hancock. 

 Tettl.f iiicnrraliix JlwvovK, Amer. Nat., XXIX, 1895, pp. 761-7H2, fig. 1. 



Five specimens, Platte Canyon May 10, in company Avith T. crmsus. 

 Dr. Hancock veriHed this determination. 



12. PARATETTIX CUCULLATUS Burmeister. 



Tririx (:ucullatit)< BvRMEisTEH, llandb. Kut., II, 18:;8, pj). 658-659. 



One female at Fort Collins August 11. I*rofessor Morse examined 

 tliis specimen and pronounced the determination correct. 



13. MERMIRIA TEXANA Bruner. 



}fi'nniria te.rava Bkuner, rroe. U. S. Nat. I\Iu8., XII, 1890, pp. 53-54, pi. i, fig. 11 



One pair at Fort Collins on August 1>, and one male nymph, whict 

 is probably of this species, at Salida on August 2. 



«Ent. News, XIII, 1902, p. 60. 



