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PSYCHE. 



[December 1898. 



Canaan, Ct. It has been reported to 

 me from West Woodstock, Ct., (Beuten- 

 miiller) , and is recorded from Maine 

 and New Hampshire by Scudder. 



26. Paroxya Scudd. 



Faroxya Scudder 1877. Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX, pp. 28-29. 



46. Paroxya floridana. Thorn. 



Calopte7iusflo)-idiatius. Thomas, Bull. 

 U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., I, No. 2., p. 68, 

 (1874). 



Faroxya atlantica. Fernald, Orth. 

 N. E., 34; Morse, List, 105; also 

 Psyche, (1893), 401 ; Beutenmiiller, 

 Orth. N. Y., 305. 



Paroxya floridana. Scudder, Rev. Mel- 

 anopli,383; Sprague, Psyche (1896) 439. 



Measurements from 82 c?) 58 ? ; — 

 Antenna: $^ 13-15; ?7 8-5-ii. H. 

 fem.: (?, 12-13.5 ; $,15.3-18.7. Teg.: 

 c?, 13-16; ?, I4-5-20- Body: $, 

 20-25; 9' 26-36. The hind femora 

 usually pass the tegmina by i or 2 mm. 

 in the male and 2 or 3 in the female. 



The only variation of note is the 

 occurrence of a striking melanistic form, 



at least in the male, several examples of 

 which I secured at Faneuil, Mass., some 

 years ago. 



This is a relatively slender-bodied 

 locust of medium size and graceful and 

 elegant appearance which should be 

 readily recognized when captured. It 

 occurs locally in swamps and marshes 

 in southern New England, where I have 

 taken it on cord-grass (Spartina) grow- 

 ing in the tide-water ditches of salt 

 meadows and in the long sedge of 

 bushy inland meadows and swamps. It 

 is usually numerous but not abundant 

 where found. While active and alert it 

 is readily captured owing to its habit of 

 trying to escape observation by getting 

 out of sight behind the stouter stems of 

 grass and weeds rather than by flight, 

 to which it resorts only when alarmed. 

 It leaps well and quickly, but its flight 

 is comparatively short. 



In New England it has been taken 

 from July 22 to Aug. 30 at Cambridge, 

 Faneuil, Newtonville, and Walpole, 

 Mass. ; Deep River, North Haven, 

 Niantic, and Stamford, Ct. Immature 

 specimens were plentiful at Faneuil on 

 the earlier date. 



Entomological expeditions. — Mr. R. 

 E. Snodgrass, assistant in entomology in Le- 

 land Stanford Jr University, sailed from San 

 Francisco on Nov. i, for the Galapagos 

 Islands. Mr. Snodgrass will spend six 

 months on the islands collecting insects and 

 other animals for the entomological and 

 zoological departments of the University. 

 Mr. Snodgrass is accompanied by Mr. Ed. 

 mund Heller, student in the department of 



zoology of Leland Stanford Jr University. 

 C. F. Baker left Auburn, Ala., on Nov. ist, 

 1898. He has gone on a two years' leave of 

 absence from the Polytechnic Institute, as 

 field botanist to the Herbert H. Smith ex- 

 ploring expedition, which will be engaged in 

 biological work in northwestern South 

 America. All letters and packages for him 

 should be addressed to St. Croix Falls, Polk 

 Co., Wisconsin. 



