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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol. 
  44. 
  

  

  b^. 
  Costal 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  coriaceous 
  and 
  opaque; 
  costal 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  

   elytra 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  with 
  the 
  margins 
  subparallel 
  to 
  near 
  the 
  distal 
  end. 
  

  

  limhata 
  Hahn. 
  

   0^. 
  Basal 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  conspicuously 
  marked 
  transversely 
  

   above 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  fourth 
  or 
  more 
  with 
  black 
  or 
  dark 
  brown. 
  

  

  calijornica 
  Rehn 
  and 
  Hebard. 
  

  

  PTiasmomantis 
  sumichrasti 
  Saussure 
  does 
  not 
  appear 
  very 
  well 
  

   established 
  as 
  a 
  nearctic 
  form 
  as 
  it 
  seems 
  never 
  to 
  haA^e 
  been 
  recorded 
  

   from 
  our 
  region 
  except 
  one 
  time, 
  by 
  Saussure 
  and 
  Zehntner 
  from 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  at 
  Geneva. 
  

  

  I 
  consider 
  Oligonyx 
  uhleri 
  Stal 
  a 
  variety 
  of 
  0. 
  scudderi 
  Saussure, 
  the 
  

   only 
  essential 
  difference 
  seeming 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  hyaline 
  wings 
  and 
  elytra 
  

   of 
  scudderi 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  the 
  infuscated 
  ones 
  of 
  uhleri. 
  A 
  single 
  

   male 
  specimen 
  of 
  uJileri 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  A 
  female 
  specimen 
  of 
  Thesprotia 
  graminis 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  the 
  

   United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  is 
  labeled 
  as 
  coming 
  from 
  New 
  York. 
  

   This 
  must 
  be 
  an 
  accidental 
  occurrence. 
  

  

  The 
  subfamily 
  Eremiaphilinse 
  is 
  represented 
  by 
  a 
  single 
  genus 
  and 
  

   species 
  found 
  in 
  our 
  region, 
  the 
  Mantoida 
  maya 
  of 
  Saussure 
  and 
  

   Zehntner, 
  having 
  been 
  recorded 
  from 
  Florida. 
  

  

  Two 
  genera 
  of 
  the 
  subfamily 
  Vatinse 
  occur 
  in 
  our 
  fauna. 
  The 
  

   posterior 
  tibiae 
  of 
  Vates 
  Burmeister 
  being 
  furnished 
  with, 
  foliations 
  

   will 
  serve 
  to 
  separate 
  that 
  genus 
  from 
  PJiyllovates 
  Kirby, 
  where 
  they 
  

   are 
  simple. 
  PJiyllovates 
  is 
  represented 
  with 
  us 
  by 
  the 
  single 
  species 
  

   cMorophase 
  Blanchard, 
  a 
  rare 
  species 
  listed 
  by 
  Scudder 
  as 
  Theoclytes 
  

   chlorophase 
  and 
  recorded 
  from 
  the 
  Gulf 
  States 
  and 
  by 
  accident 
  from 
  

   New 
  York. 
  Vates 
  contains 
  two 
  species 
  recorded 
  from 
  the 
  United 
  

   States, 
  both 
  from 
  Arizona. 
  These 
  are 
  V. 
  paraensis 
  Saussure 
  and 
  

   V. 
  townsendi 
  Rehn. 
  These 
  two 
  species 
  may 
  be 
  best 
  distinguished 
  by 
  

   the 
  costal 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  which 
  is 
  abruptly 
  tapered 
  

   near 
  the 
  apex 
  in 
  townsendi 
  and 
  gradually 
  tapered 
  from 
  near 
  the 
  base 
  

   in 
  paraensis. 
  Both 
  are 
  very 
  rare 
  species 
  in 
  our 
  fauna. 
  

  

  Family 
  PHASMID^. 
  

  

  The 
  Phasmidse 
  of 
  nearctic 
  America 
  were 
  revised 
  by 
  the 
  writer 
  a 
  

   few 
  years 
  ago, 
  but 
  since 
  that 
  date 
  several 
  new 
  genera 
  and 
  species 
  

   have 
  been 
  described 
  which 
  necessitates 
  new 
  keys 
  for 
  the 
  separation 
  

   of 
  certain 
  genera 
  and 
  species. 
  Five 
  of 
  the 
  fifteen 
  subfamilies 
  of 
  

   Phasmidae 
  are 
  represented 
  in 
  our 
  fauna. 
  They 
  may 
  be 
  easily 
  sepa- 
  

   rated 
  by 
  the 
  following 
  key. 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  subfamilies 
  of 
  nearctic 
  Fhasmidce. 
  

  

  a 
  K 
  Tarsi 
  five 
  jointed; 
  not 
  small 
  earwig-like 
  creatures 
  with 
  the 
  cerci 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  for- 
  

   cep-like. 
  

   6'. 
  Mesothorax 
  four 
  or 
  more 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  prothorax; 
  hind 
  and 
  middle 
  tibiae 
  

   carinate 
  ventrally 
  to 
  the 
  tip, 
  without 
  an 
  apical 
  areolate 
  area, 
  

   c'. 
  Median 
  segment 
  not 
  or 
  barely 
  longer 
  than 
  broad; 
  apterous. 
  

  

  