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NO. 2176. NOTEfi ON TJRGINTA ORTHOPTERA—FOX. 229 



ORCHELIMUM VULGARE Harris. 



Churchland, September 15 to October 4, November 4; Deanes, 

 September 26 ; Gilmerton, October 1 ; Deep Creek, October 1 ; Cape 

 Hem-y, September 20; Franklin, September 18, November 5; Tap- 

 pahannock, August 16-October 11; Wares Wharf, October 3; Nay- 

 lors, September 17; Sharps, October 13; Ottoman, August 8, Sep- 

 tember 27; Irvington, September 26. 



Fredericksburg, September 5; Charlottesville, October 16, 1914. 



Monterey, August 17-30; Hot Springs, September 6. 



Common at all the localities listed, except Charlottesville, where 

 only a relatively small number have so far been observed. 



This is the least specialized representative of the genus in its habitat 

 selections. It frequents tall grasses, weeds, and bushes on dry land, 

 or land that may be damp or temporarily wet, but largely avoids 

 areas of standing water or satui-ated soil such as are found in stag- 

 nant bogs and tidal marshes, being replaced in such places in the 

 Coastal Plain by agile. In the mountain section, however, it was 

 common in wet meadows, but these are occupied by a more varied 

 herbaceous vegetation than that of the bogs and tidal marshes of the 

 Coastal Plain. Typically imlgare occurs in open situations, but in 

 certain sections of tidewater Virginia (Irvingtom, Ottoman) I found 

 it common on Andropogon in woodland clearings, and in the moun- 

 tanis in the dry, scrubby undergrowth of wooded slopes. 



ORCHELIMUM LATICAUDA Redtenbacher. 



Tappahannock, August 13 to October 2 (19 males, 3 females); 

 Wares Wharf, October 3 (2 males); Sharps, October 13 (1 male); 

 Ottoman, August 8 (1 male). 



Occasional in a variety of situations, occurring regularly in tidal 

 and fresh-water marshes and pond borders, but the males, at least, 

 spreading in small numbers to upland districts where the species was 

 taken in a field of dense millet and in a thick growth of ragweed bor- 

 dering the fence of a town lot. In the tidal marshes it was found in 

 Spartina cynosuroides and in the marginal fringe of switch grasses. 

 In fresh water bogs it was taken on various grasses, cattails, sedges, 

 and bushes (e. g. alder). Unlike most members of the genus it ap- 

 pears to have a strong preference for woodland habitats. 



ORCHELIMUM MINOR Braner. 



Tappahannock, September 19-October 11, (11 males); Sharps, 

 October 13, (Note); Millenbeck (note), September 27; Irvington, 

 September 26 (1 female). 



Occasional in pine trees (P. taeda^ mrginiana, echinata) ; the single 

 female was captured in the blueberry undergrowth of pine woods. 



