BIOLOGICAL PAPERS. 221 



NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ORTHOPTERA FROM THE 

 WESTERN UNITED STATES, 



In the Entomological Collection of the University of Kansas. 



By James A. Q. Rehn, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Read (by title) before the Academy, at Topeka, December 31, 1904. 



^"^HE material treated in the following pages was kindly submitted 

 ■^ to me for study by Prof. F. H. Snow, of the University of Kan- 

 sas. The greater part of the material was collected by the University 

 expedition of 1903 to Arizona, the details of which trip have already 

 been published by Professor Snow.* As the localities are there dis- 

 cussed by one thoroughly acquainted with them, no remarks need be 

 made here. The types of all new forms are in the University museum. 

 Finally, I wish to thank Professor Snow for the opportunity afforded 

 to study the material : 



Family Forficulid.'e. 

 Labia minor Linnaeus. 



Douglas county, Kan. ; July, E. S. Tucker. One female. 

 Clark county, Kan., 1962 ft.; June, F. H. Snow. One female. 



Family Blattid-i:. 

 Ischnoptera borealis Bruner. 



Clark county, Kan., 1962 ft. ; June, F. H. Snow. One male. This individual 

 fully agrees with a specimen from Nebraska City, Otoe county. Neb. 

 Nyctobora mexicana Saussure. 



Texas. One female. 

 Homoeogamia erratica Rehn. 



Clark county, Kan., 1962 ft. ; June, F. H. Snow. One male. This record ex- 

 tends the range of the species considerably to the north. 



Family Mantid.e. 

 Litaneutria minor Scudder. 



Bill Williams Fork, Mohave-Yuma counties, Ariz. ; August, F. H. Snow. 



One female. 

 Cactus Plain, Yuma-Yavapai counties, Ariz.; F. H. Snow. One female. 

 Stagmomantis Carolina Linnteus. 



Lawrence, Douglas county, Kan.; September, E. S. Tucker; and October 4, 



1895, B. Brown. Two females. 

 Douglas county Kan. ; October, at electric light, E. S. Tucker. One male. 

 Stagmomantis limbata Hahn. 



Bill Williams Fork, Mohave-Yuma counties, Ariz.; August, F. H. Snow. 

 One female. 



* Kansas University Science Bulletin, vol. II, No. 12, pp. 323, 324. 



