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labeled " Nebraska," which has blackish marks on the head and 

 thorax, a dorsal row of dark spots on abdomen, also a row of dark 

 spots on each side of the abdomen. Wings are rather narrow. It 

 expands 39 millimeters. 



In the collection of the University of Nebraska are the following : 

 — Rulo, Richardson Co., July i, 1915, female (E. M. Partridge). 

 Crete, Saline Co., July 6, 1893, female. Lincoln, Lancaster Co., June 

 24, female; July, male; July 4, 1893, male; June 25, 1908, 1,150 ft., 

 nine males and two females (R. W. Dawson) ; June 25, 1908, female 

 (C. H. Gable) ; July 18, 1908, male, and July 23, 1908, male and female 

 (J. T. Zimmer) ; July 15, 1909, 1,150 ft., female (F. A. Burnham) ; 

 June 20, 1911, male (L. M. Gates); June 26, 1914, male (G. W. 

 Deming). South Bend, Cass Co., June 24, 1915, female; June 25, 

 1915, female; June 30, 1915, male, and July 14, 1915, male (all col- 

 lected by E. G. Anderson). West Point, Cuming Co., three males; 

 June, female; June, 1887, male; July, 1888, male and female. Maskell, 

 Dixon Co., July 16, 1915, male and female (E. G. Anderson). Cams, 

 Keyapaha Co., July 9, 1902, male; July 11, 1902, female; July 25, 1902, 

 female (W. D. Pierce). In this series the fifteen females are all 

 larger than the twenty-four males, and are of a uniform yellowish 

 ,straw color. The males are marked in every instance on the head, 

 pronotum, mesonotum and abdomen with dark spots. 



Colorado. — In the U. S. National Museum there is a male and 

 female labeled " Granada, Col." This locality is in Prowers Co., in 

 the eastern part of the state and not far from the Kansas state line. 



Melampsalta calliope var. floridensis new variety. Plate V, fig. 16. 



Type male. Ft. Meade, Florida, July 30, 1915 (Mrs. F. E. Porter). 



Allotype female, Rye, Florida, July 9, 1919 (Joseph Lienhart). Both in 

 Davis collection. 



In the writer's collection there are sixteen specimens from peninsula 

 Florida of what is considered a green and geographic variety of calliope. This 

 variety extends to southern Georgia, and perhaps beyond along the coast, 

 where it joins the darker, typical form, in which the males especially are 

 marked with black, or nearly black spots on the head and thorax. The Florida 

 examples in addition to being grass green are immaculate or nearly so. In 

 the niany examples examined of the straw yellow or dark typical form, we 

 have seen none from Florida, though it should be found in the northern and 

 especially in the northwestern part of the state. The fact that there is a 



