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August 12, 1 male, August 13 to September 19. Frequent in tidal 

 marshes, occurring especially in growths of Scirpus americanus and to 

 a less extent m Spartina cynosuroides, also occurring m grassy inland 

 bog and in vegetation bordering mill pond; Naylors, September 17, 

 2 females (occasional in Scirpus americanus patches of tidal marsh) ; 

 Wares Wharf, October 3, 1 female (tidal mapsh in zone occupied by 

 Spartina cynosuroides and BaccTiaris Jialimifolia) ; Whitestone, Sept- 

 tember 26, 2 males, 1 female (in patch of cat-tails). 



Fredericksburg, September 5, 1 female (low damp spot, comer of 

 woods, m area occupied by ironweed, boneset, and associated 

 vegetation). 



MERMIRIA INTERTEXTA Scudder.i 



Portsmouth, October 3, 2 males, 1 female (in bunch grasses (Andro- 

 pogon, Sorghastrum), of open oak and sweet gum scrub bordering 

 tidal marshes) ; Millenbeck, August 8, September 27 (several in thick 

 grass (Spartina patens) and bushes (Iva oraria), bordering patch of 

 tall Spartina glabra on shore of estuary); Wliitestone, September 26, 

 2 females (edge of salt marsh, in zone of Spartina glabra, Distichlis 

 spicata, and BaccTiaris). 



SYRBULA ADMIRABILIS (Uhler). 



Norfolk, July 11, juv.; Churchland, August 8-9, adults and juv., 

 September 15; July 11, 1915, juv. only; Deanes, September 26; Gil- 

 merton, October 1, November 6; Deep Creek, October 1; Franklin, 

 September 18, November 5; Tappahannock, June 4 to July 18, 

 nymphs only; July 25 to August 2, adults and nymphs; August 13 to 

 October 11; Wares Wharf, October 3, 1 female; Center Cross, Au- 

 gust 18; Sharps, June 22, juv., October 13, 1 female; Urbanna, 

 August 18; Ottoman, August 8, September 27; Irvington, September 

 26, 1 female; Newtown, August 17. 



Fredericksburg, September 5; Charlottesville, May 23 to July 22, 

 nymphs only, July 31 to August 12, adults and nymphs, September 

 10 to October 16, 1914; October 30, 1915. 



A frequent and widely distributed species in old, neglected •fields 

 and pastures, especially those overgrown with Andropogon and other 

 coarse and dry grasses, less commonly found in open woodland scrub. 

 Apparently of equal frequency throughout the Piedmont and Coastal 

 Plain provinces. 



ERITETTIX SIMPLEX (Scudder) [ = E. carinatus of authors]. 



Tappahannock, April 24-29, June 4-8, September 19 to October 11 

 (njnnphs); Mount Landing, April 28; Lloyds, April 28; Dunnsville, 



» Determined by comparison with material in collection of the Academy of Natiu-al Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. The species called vigilans in my paper on New Jersey Orthoptera (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 

 vol. 66, 1914, p. 487) is the sa,me,mgilans now being recognized, according to Rehn (verbal commmiication) 

 as a synonym of intertexta. 



