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PSYCHE. 



[October 1895. 



This race rarely presents the " col- 

 lared " type of coloration, though some 

 specimens from Nantucket and a single 

 one from Sherljorn, Mass., are thus 

 marked. It is very desirable to learn 

 the distribution of this race outside of 

 New England, it being unknown at 

 present from beyond that district. 



Race Ajigtistipenne var. nov. 



This form is \'ery near -vyotningia- 

 num diflering in having the head larger 

 proportionally, the tegmina and wings 

 longer, and the pronotum slightly more 

 constricted. The tegmina when spread 

 are of equal width throughout and their 

 edges are straighter toward the apex 

 than in ■u:yo))iingiam(m. 



9 (? , 4 9 , Sidt Lake Valley, Utah, 

 4300 ft., Aug. 1-4. Scudder's collec- 

 tion. 



Antenna. Hind fem. Tegmina. Total, 

 cf 11.4-12.5 12.8-15.3 23-26 28.7-33 



9 12 5 '5 -16 27-29-5 34 -36 



Race Wyomingianiim riios. 



Oedipoda ivyotningia^ia. Thomas, 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., 1871, 462. 



Oedipoda wyomingiana. Thomas, 

 Syn. Acrid. N. A., 1 13. 



Spharagemon ivyomingianiim . 



Scudder, Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist., 

 xvii, 470. 



Spharagemon aequale (in part). 

 Scudder, Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist., 

 xvii, 46S. 



Spharagemon collare. Scudder, in 

 collection, labeled thus, from N. J. 

 (described by Morse as oculatutn) . 



Spharagemon collare. McNeill, 

 Psyche, vi, 64. Determined from a 

 pair in Scudder's collection, Moline, 

 111., received from McNeill. 



Spharagemon ociilatum. Morse, 

 Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist., xxvi, 232. 



Spharagemon ocitlatiim. Blatchlev , 

 Can. ent., iSg.:], 21S. 



The description of Thomas is mis- 

 leading in some particulars and the 

 locality of the specimens was so far 

 removed, while the discrimination of 

 the species has been attended with such 

 confusion, that I described this form as 

 new under the name oi ocitlatitm (1. c.) 

 from material from Indiana and Staten 

 Id. I have since compared what are 

 undoubtedly the types in the National 

 museum collection with these and find 

 that they agree in all essential partic- 

 ulars. I have also received an addi- 

 tional series from Prof. Blatchle}- from 

 Marshall Co., Ind., and in that locality 

 at least it is a well-marked form or race. 

 Yet specimens from Md. and N. Y. 

 closely approach the New England 

 form sciidden', and in the west even 

 the typical collare. 2 9 from Colo, 

 show the reddish suffusion previously 

 mentioned. 



In addition to several of the types of 

 " oculatum " previouslv described, my 

 collection contains a series of 15 ^, 

 II 9. Marshall Co., Ind., — Blatchley ; 

 a pair from Illinois and a 9 from Sta- 

 ten Id. received from Beutenmiiller. 

 Scudder's collection contains a pair 

 from Moline, 111.,— McNeill ; 3 9, 

 Chicago; and i 9' Md., Sept. 14, — 

 Uhler (" aequale"). The National^ 



