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ORPHULELLA SPECIOSA (Scudder). 



Charlottesville, July 1-31, 6 males, 9 females (infrequent, local). 



Jarman's Gap, July 30, August 1, 3 males, 1 female. 



Monterey, August 17 to September 1 (common); Hot Springs, 

 September 6-7 (occasional). 



This species was quite common in the drier, closely-gTazed pastures 

 and open momitain slopes about Monterey; at Hot Sprmgs it ap- 

 peared to be much less frequent, though more extended search might 

 have shown it more abundant. At Charlottesville, it appeared to be 

 rather scarce, occurring in noticeably smaller numbers than its con- 

 gener, 0. pelidna, with which it was usually found associated in dry 

 upland and hillside pastures. 



ORPHULELLA PELIDNA (Burmeister). 



Norfolk, September 17, 1914, July 11, 1915; Portsmouth, October 

 3; Churchland, August 8-9, September 15-16, November 4,1914, 

 July 11, 1915; Deanes, September 26; Gilmerton, October 1, Novem- 

 ber 6; Deep Creek, October 1; Virginia Beach, August 9, September 

 20; Cape Henry, September 27; Franklin, September 18, November 

 5; Tappahannock, June 4-20 (nymphs), June 30-October 24; Center 

 Cross, August 18; Urbanna, August 18; Naylors, September 17; 

 Sharps, June 22 (adults and nymphs), October 13; Ottoman, August 

 8, September 27; Irvington, September 26; NewtowTi, August 17. 



Fredericksburg, September 5, Charlottesville, June 13-15 (nymphs) 

 Jmie 27 (1 male, nymphs), July 8 (6 males, 4 females, 1 juv.); July 11 

 to August 12, 1914. 



One of the most common and widely distributed species of the 

 Coastal Plain, extending into the Piedmont as far, at least, as Char- 

 lottesville, where it is rather frequent, although of somewhat local 

 occurrence. Its usual preference is for open fields and pastures over- 

 run with Andropogon and other dry grasses, but is also not uncommon 

 in the grassy and herbaceous undergrowth of open woodlands and in 

 the low grassy tracts adjoining tidal marshes. 



ORPHULELLA OLIVACEA Morse. 



Wares Wharf, October 3, 1 female (tidal marsh, zone of Spartina 

 patens, Iva oraria, etc.), 1 male 1 female (marshy river shore, in Spar- 

 tina glabra); Naylors, September 17, 1 female (tidal marsh, m Scirpus 

 americanus) ; Millenbeck, August 8, September 27 (frequent m Spar- 

 tina glabra and border fringe of S. patens on marshy shore of estuary) ; 

 Whitestone, September 26 (common in salt marsh). 



This being a strictly maritune species is naturally confined to tide- 

 water Virginia. It is evidently common in suitable situations m the 

 lowest part of the Rappahannock River where the water has a fairly 

 high salt content and where the typical salt marsh grass, Spartina 



