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Locally frequent, especially in low, moist places overgrown with 

 dense grassy tangles and other herbage; less frequent in timothy pas- 

 tures and in mixed thickets of brambles and Andrepogon. The species 

 is best represented in midsummer and becomes scarce toward fall, 

 when usually only females arc encountered. 



PAROXYA CLAVULIGER (Serville).i 



Portsmouth, October 3; Churchland, August 8-9, November 4; 

 Deanes, September 26; Gilmerton, October 1; Cape Henry, Sep- 

 tember 20; Franklin, September 18, November 5; Tappahannock, 

 July 18 to October 24; Naylors, September 17; Sharps, October 13; 

 Ottoman, August 8; Irvington, September 26. 



Charlottesville, July 11 (adults and nymphs), July 28, August 11. 



Jarman Gap, August 1, (3 males, 1 female, 1 nymph). 



Abundant in the tidal marshes of the Coastal Plain, frequenting 

 the dense growths of Scirpus araericanus and Spartina cynosuroides, 

 but not present in true salt marsh dommated b}'- Spartina glahra. It 

 also occurs inland in bogs and wet meadows overgrown with cat-tails, 

 dense grasses, and other rank herbage. At Jarman Gap in the Blue 

 Ridge the species was found in a small boggy spot near the head of a 

 stream quite close to the summit. 



Family TETTIGONIIDAE. 



SCUDDERIA TEXENSIS Saussure and Pictet. 



Portsmouth, October 3; Churcliland, September 15,* Tappahan- 

 nock, July 25 to October 11; Sharps, October 3. 



Charlottesville, July 17. 



Bolar, September 3. 



Not very evenly distributed; frequent in some places, scarce in 

 others. Prefers areas of tall grasses (Andropogen) and bushes in 

 open fields, pastures, and meadows; also noticed on tall reeds (Spar- 

 tina cynosuroides) in tidal marshes. 



SCUDDERIA PISTILLATA Brunner. 



Monterey, August 22 (1 male, 1 female); Bolar, September 3 

 (1 male) .2 



At Monterey the species was found in briers and low shrubbery on 

 dry, stony mountain slopes close to the woods covering tlie summit, 

 where it was associated with S.furcata; at Bolar in the tall herbage of 

 an old meadow in the intermontane valley. This is, I believe, the 

 most southern authentic record of this species. 



1 = p. floridiana (Thomas) of authors, which Rehn and Hebard inform me is a synonym of clavuliger. 



2 Determination confirmed by Rehn and Hebard, who examined my specimens. 



