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Fredericksburg, September 5; Louisa, October 26 (1 male); Char- 

 lottesville, September 10-October 31, 1914. 



Monterey, August 22 (adults, nymphs), August 'SI ; Bolar, Septem- 

 ber 3; Hot Springs, September 7. 



Occasional or moderately frequent in open, undisturbed, dry 

 grasslands, especially partial to Andropogon, but taken also in Dan- 

 thonia. 



CONOCEPHALltS STICTOMERUS Rehn and Hebard. 



Churchland, August 8 (1 female),^ September 15 (1 female); Tap- 

 pahannock, July 31-October 2 (IS males, 9 females, 4 juv.). 



Occasional in tidal marshes, especiall}" in the tall reeds, Spartina 

 cynosuroides, upon the spikelets of which it was observed feeding; less 

 frequent in Scirpus americanus. Apparently active only at night. 



CONOCEPHALUS NIGROPLEUROIDES (Fox). 



Churcliland, September 15 to October 1. 



Occasional in tall Spartina glabra fringing small tidal creek. Not 

 observed in the salt marshes of the lower Rappahannock River. 



CONOCEPHALUS SPARTINAE (Fox). 



Portsmouth, October 3; Churchland, September 15 to October 1, 

 1914; July 11, 1915 (1 female); Tappahannock, July 18 to Septem- 

 ber 7; Wares Wliarf, October 3; Sharps, October 13; Millenbeck, 

 August 8, September 27; Wliitestone, September 26. 



Usually common in true salt marshes, frequenting Spartina glahra 

 and occasional in tidal marshes beyond the influence of salt water 

 (Tappahannock), occurring in the latter on Scirpus americanus and 

 Spartina cynosuroides. 



CONOCEPHALUS SALTANS (Scudder). 



Portsmouth, October 3; Churchland, September 16; Deanes, Sep- 

 tember 26; Gilmerton, November 6; Franklin, September 18; Tap- 

 pahannock, August 21 (juv.), September 9 to October 11; Dunns- 

 ville, October 3. 



Charlottesville, September 10 to October 31, 1914. 



Occasional to frequent in coarse, dry grasses {Andropogon) usually 

 in the vicinity of wooded areas. 



ATLANTICUS TESTACEUS (Scudder).2 



Charlottesville, March 27-May 25 (nymphs), June 23 to July 16, 

 1914. 



Occasional in dry, open woodland or wooded borders, frequenting 

 low shrubbery. 



> This specimen is atypical, having the ovipositor considerably longer than in typical examples. See 

 measurements in the recent revision of the genus by Rehn and Hebard. 



■^=A. pachymerm of authors. Mr. Rehn kindly determined all ray examples of this genus collected 

 in 1914. 



