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PSYCHE. 



[September, 1900. 



ever, from Montreal and it probabh' 

 occurs in all the states excepting Maine 

 and perhaps New Hampshire. 



Isc/iiioptera uJileriaua vSauss, {Plat- 

 amodes unicolor Scudd.). A common 

 species under old logs in woods. Mass., 

 Conn. (Norton). In my Catalogue of 

 U. S. Orthoptera, I overlooked the 

 identity of iiJileriana and ti?iicolor. I 

 have compared the tj'pes. 



Blatta germaJiica Linn. Found 

 everywhere in abundance, especially 

 in dwellings in towns and cities. 



Phyllodroiiiia borealis (Sauss.). 

 {Ectobia Jiavochicta Scudd.) Under 

 objects lying on the ground in woods. 

 Front's Neck, Scarboro, Me. ; about 

 Boston, Mass. (Harris) ; Conn. (Nor- 

 ton). In my Catalogue of U. S. Or- 

 thoptera I accidentally omitted the 

 synonymy given above ; both descrip- 

 tions appeai'ed the same year, l)ut 

 months apart. 



Nyctodorinae. 



* Nyctoboi-a scricca Burm. Aliout 

 Boston. Introduced from South Amer- 

 ica. A single example seen. 



Feriplanetinae. 



* Eiirycotis sp. A nymph of some 

 species of this genus with the prono- 

 tum distinctly margined, except poste- 

 riorly, with yellow, — possibly E. Jin- 

 schiaua (Sauss.) taken in Wellesley, 

 Mass., on a bunch of bananas was sent 

 me by Mr. A. F. Morse. 



Stylopyga oriental is (Linn). Verj' 

 common along the seaboard, especially 



in city dwellings ; a cosmopolitan 

 species. 



Periplaneta ame?-icana (Linn). 

 Common along the seaboard, especially 

 in city dwellings and warehouses; a 

 cosmopolitan species. 



Fanchlorinae. 



* Paiichlora poeyi Sauss. Occasion- 

 ally occurs in seaboard cities, probably 

 introduced in banana-bunches. 



* Pvcuoscchis sicritiamcnsis (Linn.). 

 A single imm.itme specimen of, this 

 tropical roach has been taken in central 

 Massachusetts at Springfield. 



Ferisphaerinae. 



* Hormefica advena Scudd. A sin- 

 gle specimen, taken in Belmont, Mass., 

 was doubtless introduced from tropical 

 America, probably in banana-bunches. 



PHASMIDAE. 



Diapkeromera feniorata (Say). 

 Very common on trees and bushes and 

 especially on scrub-oak. I have never 

 seen specimens from Maine, but it is 

 found in all the other New England 

 states. 



ACRIDIIDAE. 

 Tettiginae. 



No?notettix cristatits (Scudd.). 

 "Common locally over the larger part, 

 at least, and probably occurs in the 



whole of the district Found 



everywhere on light soils, but espe- 

 ciallv in dry pastures" (Morse) 



2"cttixgranu1atiis (Kirby) . " Found 

 over probably the whole of New Eng- 



