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  rnocEEinNdS 
  of 
  thi: 
  national 
  museu.v. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  Bruuer); 
  same, 
  G. 
  11. 
  Crotch; 
  N'ancoavei' 
  Island, 
  Biitisli 
  Columbia, 
  H. 
  

   Edwards 
  (S. 
  H. 
  Scudder; 
  U.S.X.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collection); 
  Victoria, 
  Vau- 
  

   couver 
  Island, 
  British 
  Columbia, 
  Packard 
  (same); 
  Gold 
  Stream, 
  Van- 
  

   couver 
  Island, 
  British 
  Columbia, 
  July 
  17 
  (S. 
  Henshaw); 
  Sicamous, 
  

   British 
  Columbia, 
  July 
  25 
  (same) 
  ; 
  Northwest 
  Boundary 
  Survey, 
  Doctor 
  

   Kennerly; 
  Washington, 
  Morrison 
  (T". 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection; 
  S. 
  

   Henshaw); 
  Camp 
  Umatilla, 
  Washington, 
  June 
  26, 
  Henshaw 
  (^luseum 
  

   Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  Loon 
  Lake, 
  Stevens 
  County, 
  Washington, 
  July 
  

   25, 
  Henshaw 
  (same); 
  Brown's, 
  Colville 
  Valley, 
  W^asliington, 
  July 
  24, 
  

   Henshaw 
  (same); 
  Ellensburg, 
  Kittitas 
  County, 
  Washington, 
  July 
  14, 
  

   Henshaw 
  (same); 
  Easton, 
  Kittitas 
  County, 
  Washington 
  (U.S.X.M. 
  — 
  

   lliley 
  collection); 
  Spokane, 
  Washington, 
  July 
  21, 
  22, 
  Henshaw 
  

   (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  Fort 
  Wallawalla, 
  Washington, 
  Ben- 
  

   dire 
  (U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection); 
  Wallula, 
  Wallawalla 
  County, 
  

   Washington, 
  September 
  1, 
  Packard 
  (same; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  Morgan's 
  

   Ferry, 
  Yakima 
  River, 
  Washington, 
  July 
  1, 
  Henshaw 
  (Museum 
  Com- 
  

   parative 
  Zoology) 
  ; 
  La.Chapples, 
  Yakima 
  River, 
  Washington, 
  July 
  16, 
  

   Henshaw 
  (same); 
  Umatilla, 
  Oregon, 
  July 
  25, 
  Henshaw 
  (same); 
  Ruby 
  

   Valley, 
  Elko 
  County, 
  Nevada, 
  R. 
  Eidgway; 
  Camp 
  Halleck, 
  Elko 
  

   County, 
  Nevada, 
  E. 
  Palmer 
  ; 
  Reno, 
  Washoe 
  County, 
  Nevada 
  ( 
  CS.N.M. 
  — 
  

   Riley 
  collection); 
  Truckee 
  Yalley, 
  Nevada, 
  R. 
  Ridgway; 
  Lake 
  Tahoe, 
  

   Nevada, 
  Packard 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collection); 
  Weeksville, 
  Montana, 
  

   August 
  2, 
  Henshaw 
  (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology). 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  species 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  classed, 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  

   as 
  belonging 
  to 
  Walker's 
  Galoptentts 
  scripfus, 
  and 
  is 
  therefore 
  prob- 
  

   ably 
  the 
  species 
  so 
  named 
  by 
  CockerelU 
  as 
  coming- 
  from 
  Colorado. 
  It 
  

   is, 
  however, 
  not 
  that 
  species, 
  a 
  female 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  species 
  

   having 
  at 
  my 
  reijuest 
  been 
  compared 
  with 
  the 
  types 
  by 
  Mr. 
  S. 
  Henshaw 
  

   during 
  a 
  recent 
  visit 
  in 
  London. 
  As 
  compared 
  with 
  this, 
  he 
  finds 
  the 
  

   true 
  scriptus 
  to 
  be 
  " 
  much 
  larger, 
  heavier, 
  and 
  with 
  shorter, 
  heavier, 
  

   and 
  more 
  clumsy 
  prosternal 
  spine; 
  thoracic 
  carinae, 
  especially 
  the 
  

   median, 
  sharper 
  and 
  more 
  prominent; 
  cups 
  of 
  upper 
  valves 
  of 
  ovipositor 
  

   much 
  decider; 
  lower 
  valves 
  much 
  heavier." 
  He 
  also 
  compared 
  this 
  

   with 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Walker's 
  Cidoptenus 
  hilitnratus 
  and 
  found 
  it 
  the 
  same, 
  

   "agreeing 
  as 
  to 
  front, 
  eyes, 
  thoracic 
  carinae, 
  prosternal 
  spine, 
  and 
  

   mesosternal 
  lobes." 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  varies 
  somewhat, 
  and 
  runs 
  very 
  close 
  indeed 
  to 
  M.atJfuiis; 
  

   more 
  so 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  examples 
  from 
  British 
  Columbia 
  and 
  Wash- 
  

   ington 
  than 
  in 
  those 
  from 
  Nevada; 
  and 
  M^ere 
  it 
  not 
  for 
  the 
  considera- 
  

   ble 
  uniformity 
  of 
  Nevada 
  specimens, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  male 
  cerci 
  are 
  always 
  

   relatively 
  long 
  and 
  slender, 
  and 
  their 
  marked 
  distinction 
  from 
  Utah 
  

   specimens 
  of 
  J/, 
  atlanls, 
  I 
  should 
  have 
  hesitated 
  to 
  regard 
  the 
  species 
  as 
  

   distinct 
  from 
  M. 
  atlanis, 
  especially 
  in 
  view 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  variation 
  in 
  the 
  

   latter 
  species. 
  As 
  it 
  is, 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  in 
  much 
  doubt 
  where 
  to 
  place 
  

   females 
  from 
  British 
  Columbia 
  and 
  Washington, 
  where 
  the 
  two 
  species 
  

   occur 
  togetlier. 
  

  

  Trans. 
  Am. 
  Knt. 
  Soc-., 
  XX 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  337. 
  

  

  