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is a wealth of material to be developed some day. Some attic will 

 reveal its treasure of letters. The 2,000 or 3,000 John Abbot draw- 

 ings known to have been collected by Leconte the elder probably still 

 exist. There are thousands of letters to and from the Lecontes 

 tucked away somewhere waiting for editing. Time flies. There are 

 only a score left out of the thousand who read Dr. Horn's laconic 

 telegram of 1883: "Dr. Leconte died at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon,'" 

 and there is no tyro in beetledom who does not know the man. 



NOTES ON ORTHOPTERA FROM THE EAST COAST 



OF FLORIDA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO 



NEW SPECIES OF BELOCEPHALUS. 



By Wm. T. Davis. 



New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



Nearly the entire month of September, 1913, was spent in com- 

 pany with Mr. Charles E. Sleight collecting insects and other natural 

 history objects of interest at several places along the east coast of 

 Florida from Jacksonville to Key West. The writer paid particular 

 attention to the Orthoptera and in all ninety^two species were secured, 

 those from the vicinity of Jacksonville having been turned over to 

 Messrs. Rehn and Hebard, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, for study in connection with some of their North 

 Florida material. The remaining species collected at La Grange and 

 southward are here recorded, including two new species of Bclo- 

 ccphahis, and the very interesting Phrixa maya, a large green Katy- 

 did-like creature, originally described from Mexico, and now re- 

 ported for the first time from the United States. 



Mr. Howard Chaudoin, of La Grange, and the family of Mr. Wm. 

 H. Sands, of Big Pine Key, have sent me specimens collected in the 

 fall of 19 1 3. These have been here mentioned in connection with the 

 various species. 



In New York and New Jersey Chortophaga z'iridifasciata may be 

 found as a mature insect from April to September; the species of 

 Hippisciis and Arpliia sulphurca mature in the spring and die by the 



