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Vol. XXI. SEPTEMBER, 1913. No. 3 



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 TWO ADDITIONS TO THE LIST OF NEW JERSEY 

 CONE-HEADED GRASSHOPPERS. 



By William T. Davis, 



New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. 



. In the last edition of the Insects of New Jersey ten species of 

 Conoccphaloidcs are enumerated. The names triops (dissimilis), 

 rctusus and atlanticus, as there applied, probably refer to forms of one 

 species, and nebrasccnsis was identified as such about the time lyristes, 

 which it resembles, was described from Florida. This leaves seven 

 species, with possibly one form of triops or rctusus worthy of being 

 separated as a variety under one of the above names. In triops the 

 length of the ovipositor varies as much as 5 mm., but as this same 

 thing occurs in undoubted specimens of robustns, the ovipositor must 

 not be taken as an infallible guide. 



In the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, June, 1907, p. 305, Conoccphalus mclanorhinus is described by 

 Rehn and Hebard from a single female from Cedar Keys, Levy 

 County, Florida. While at Tuckerton in the southern part of New 

 Jersey, September i, 1907, the writer collected a male melanorhinus 

 •on the edge of the meadows. So far these are the only two specimens 

 known. The New Jersey example has been compared with the type 

 and there is no doubt but what it is the same species. The fastigium 



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