46 Journal New York Entomological Society. IVoi. xxx. 



and several on Willis's Mountain on August 9, 1921. It is likely that 

 in many places in Virginia this species and canicularis are to be found 

 in the same territory as they are in Cape May County, New Jersey. 

 Mr. Andrew N. Caudell has given the writer a female davisi collected 

 September 10, 1921, at Point Lookout, Md., just across the Potomac 

 River from the Virginia shore. 



7. Tibicen similaris (Smith & Grossbeck). 



Figured in Journal, N. Y. Entomological Society, September- 

 December, 1918, PI. 8, fig. 2. 



Arlington, male, collection U. S. Nat. Museum. This species is 

 more common to the south of Virginia. 



8. Tibicen lyricen (De Geer). 



'Figured in Journal^ N. Y. Entomological Society, September- 

 December, 1918, PI. 8, fig. I. 



A species of wide distribution and quite common in Virginia. In- 

 land and especially in the higher parts of the state the variety engel- 

 hardti, in which the pronotum and mesonotum are nearly all black, 

 except for the anchor-shaped tawny spot on the former, is the pre- 

 vailing form. 



Of typical lyricen the following have been examined : Falls Church, 

 August 30, female (Banks) ; Dunn Loring, July 26, 1915, female, 

 collection University of Michigan; near Blueniont, September 3, 1916, 

 two males (Francis Harper), these approach var. engelhardti; West 

 Hampton, near Richmond, August 17, 1921, male found dead on road 

 after cool night; Tappahannock, August 3, 191 5, male, approaching 

 var. engelhardti; September 10, 1915, male; July, 1916, four males, 

 two females, and August, 191 6, two males, one female, all from Dr. 

 Henry Fox. Nelson County, July 31, 1917, female; August i, 1917, 

 female; August 6, 1917, female; August 4, 1921, male (Col. Robinson). 

 August 5, 1921, we collected a single typical female lyricen on Spear's 

 Mountain, Buckingham County, and later a typical female emerged 

 from a pupa found at evening on the trunk of a tree in the garden at 

 Wingina. On June 21, 1919, we heard a lyricen singing near Spear's 

 Mountain. This is an early date. 



