498 McNeill 



Brunner gives Scudder's measurements and they are exactly the same, 

 except that he adds the length of the four femora, so that his speci- 

 mens were the same as Scudder's. His description does not fit the 

 Albemarle specimens in all respects, but on the whole it suits this 

 species better than any other. 



To this species are referred the specimens from Charles Island, a part 

 of those from Albemarle, and those from James and Hood. The spe- 

 cimens from Hood, however, form a distinct subspecies and, as before 

 stated, each of the islands probably has its distinct race which cannot be 

 properly characterized here for want of material. The Charles race, 

 however, is decidedly larger and more robust than the others; the teg- 

 mina overlap plainly in the females ; the spines of the under side of the 

 femora are 2 or 3, 2, 4, and the spinules on the outer carina of the upper 

 side of the hind tibiae are 2 or 3. The Albemarle specimens are decid- 

 edly smaller ; the tegmina of the females scarcely more than touch at the 

 base on the basal half; the femoral spines are 3 or 2, 2 or 3, 4 or 5 ; 

 the hind tibiae spinules (outer carinas upper side) 4 or 5 or none be- 

 yond the middle. The James form is represented by a male only, 

 and it must be compared with the male of the^Albemarle form as there 

 is no male from Charles. Compared with this form, the male has 

 the spinules on the outer carinae of the upper side of the hind tibiae 

 uncertain in number and so exceedingly minute as to be scarcely dis- 

 coverable. The musical organ occupies about one-third instead of 

 one-half the length of the tegmina, and the stylets of the subgenital 

 plate much exceed (by their whole length and a part of the plate 

 equal to half their length) the cerci. These forms resemble each 

 other in having the pronotum strongly tuberculate, the tegmina of the 

 female decidedly shorter and little if any longer than the pronotum, 

 the spines of the hind femora being generally four, the spinules of the 



outer carinae of the hind 

 tibiae never more than five 

 and confined to the distal 

 half, and the ovipositor com- 

 paratively short and wide 

 and quite strongly curved. 

 Tlie remaining form is of 



_, - .^ ,. , . .r r subspecific value and may 



riG. 39. l^tfaroscelis cooksoni enstjer,ie.- '■ '' 



male, ovipositor. (X3.) ^^ known as Liparoscelis 



cooksoni etisifer (Fig. 39) 

 from its comparatively longand gracefully curved ovipositor. It differs 

 from L, cooksoni Butler in the following particulars: It is relatively 



