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Postscript. Since writing the above paper, Mr. A. P. Morse has 

 called my attention to an article in the American Museum Journal 

 of February, 1918, p. 145, by Mr. W. L. McAtee who quotes Mr. 

 E. A. Goldman of the U. S. Biological Survey mentioning a curious 

 instance of synchronal insect movements: "When looking among 

 the tree tops for birds, he has been taken unawares by an army of 

 these (driver) ants. The soldiers of the driver ants have tremen- 

 dously developed heads and jaws; their bite brings blood and they 

 hang on till the heads are pulled off. The most interesting feature 

 of their attack is the remarkable unanimity with which they set 

 their teeth (?) into the skin. Whether they accomplish this by 

 mental telepathy or otherwise, the fact remains that several ants 

 scattered here and there over one's anatomy all decide to bite at 

 one particular moment." 



It may be that the action of the pulse was the stimulating in- 

 fluence that caused the ants to bite Mr. McAtee all at the same 

 moment. Prof. W. M. Wheeler writes me: " There is doubt in my 

 mind about McAtee's interpretation of the simultaneous biting of 

 the soldiers of the driver ants. It may be merely a simultaneous 

 response to the movement of the body of the person covered with 

 ants. Such a movement of the skin would act as a stimulus and 

 cause all the irritated ants to use their mandibles at the same mo- 

 ment. I have a feeling that I have noticed something of the kind 

 in the tropics in other ants." 



NEW RECORDS OF ORTHOPTERA IN NEW ENGLAND. 



By Albert P. Morse. 

 Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. 



Parcoblatta lata Brunner. This common native wood-roach of 

 more southern range (formerly placed in genus Ischnoptera) has 

 been taken in New England in a single instance. It was captured 

 by me on July 13 on the ground floor of a dwelling-house at Welles- 

 ley, Mass., and identifled and recorded by Hebard, who regards it 

 as adventive in New England. 



Manomera blatchleyi Caudell. An adult female of this walking- 

 stick was taken by me at Greenwich, Conn., August 25, 1892, and 



