PSYCHE. 



71 



OUR GREENHOUSE ORTHOPTERA. 



The following instmicet. of Orthoptera not 

 native to the spot occurring' in onr green- 

 houses are the only ones that have come to 

 my knowledge. The fiist is a Copiophora 

 (described as a new species by Thomas) 

 which was found in the greenhouse of the 

 Agricultural department at Washington. 

 Another is a species of Bliastes, a single 

 specimen of which did great damage a year 

 or two ago in the orchid house of the Miss- 

 on)i botanic garden at St. Louis, before it 

 was found. Both these genera of Locusta- 

 rians are strangers to tlie United States, 

 belonging in tropical America; thev were 

 undoubtedly introduced with imported 

 plants. The third case is Apithes agitatrix 

 Uhler, one of our southern crickets ranging 

 as far north as Baltimore, which has been 

 found in all stages of development in green- 

 houses of tlie Cambridge botanic garden by 

 Mr. J. W. Folsom ; it seems to have done no 

 material damage. Samuel II. Scmiihi . 



SOME CORRECTIONS IN GENERIC 

 NAMES IN ORTHOPTERA. 



It unfortunately appears that several of the 

 names proposed for new genera in my recent 

 paper on Tru.ialinae are preoccupied. I, 

 therefore, propose for these names the fol- 

 lowing stibstitutes : 



Oreiiiit in the key is simply a typographi- 

 cal error, it is written Opeia on pp. 214-215 

 and in the explanation of plate II. 



Piiigodci may be Eiipiiigodcs,. 



Eremiius may be Ageneoleitix. 



Plfctiophorus may be Plectrotettix. 



Brninieria may be Bruneyia as the genus 

 was intended to be named in honor of Law 

 rence Bruner and was spelled Brunneria by 

 the printer who could not be made to under- 

 stand that there could be two names so sim- 

 ilar as Brunner and Bruner, and as I could 

 not see a second proof. I could not tell 

 whether coirections indicated were made or 

 noi. — Jeiome McNeill. 



AULOCAR.\ AND AGENROTE TTIX. 



In a short paper just published (Can. ent., 

 xxix. 75) I have given Ageneotettix (Erem- 

 nus McNeill) as one of the synonyms of 

 Aulocara Scudder. In this I was mistaken. 

 The former differs from Aulocara in tliat the 

 prozonal carina is entire, instead of being 

 cut by the transverse sulci; in having the 

 lateral foveolae of the male rhomboidal and 

 subequal in width instead of triangular; and 

 in the much greater inequality in length of 

 the inner apical spurs of the hind tibiae, 

 whicli latter are also red instead of blue. 

 .Aulocara has a numlier of species, some not 

 yet described ; Ageneotetli.x extends from 

 Indiana to Dakota in the north and south to 

 Texas and if the forms all belong to one 

 species it is exceedingly varied in size and 

 markings. Aulocara extends south to 

 northern Mexico. 



Samuel H. Scudder. 



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