﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCrDDER. 
  383 
  

  

  basally 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  post-basal 
  black 
  aunulus 
  in 
  the 
  luteous 
  portion, 
  

   the 
  spines 
  black 
  excepting 
  at 
  extreme 
  base, 
  ten 
  to 
  eleven 
  in 
  number 
  in 
  

   the 
  outer 
  series. 
  Supraanal 
  plate 
  of 
  male 
  short 
  triangular, 
  mesially 
  tec- 
  

   tate, 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  slender, 
  deep, 
  percurrent 
  sulcus 
  broadening 
  consider- 
  

   ably 
  at 
  the 
  apex; 
  furcula 
  consisting 
  of 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  adjacent, 
  parallel, 
  

   pretty 
  long 
  and 
  coarse, 
  strongly 
  depressed, 
  somewhat 
  tapering, 
  blunt 
  

   apophyses; 
  cerci 
  compressed 
  laminate, 
  strongly 
  incurved 
  throughout, 
  

   tai^ering 
  to 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  half 
  the 
  basal 
  width 
  in 
  the 
  proximal 
  half 
  and 
  

   then 
  immediately 
  and 
  as 
  regularly 
  widening 
  to 
  nearlj^ 
  the 
  basal 
  width 
  

   in 
  the 
  distal 
  half, 
  subtruncate 
  apically. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  20 
  mm., 
  female, 
  29 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male, 
  12 
  

   mm., 
  female, 
  12.5 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  9.25 
  mm., 
  female, 
  10.5 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  12 
  mm., 
  female, 
  10 
  mm. 
  

  

  Ten 
  males, 
  8 
  females. 
  Vigo 
  County, 
  Indiana 
  (W. 
  S. 
  Blatchley; 
  A. 
  P. 
  

   Morse) 
  ; 
  Oberlin, 
  Lorain 
  County, 
  Ohio, 
  September 
  21, 
  coll. 
  L. 
  Jones, 
  W. 
  

   S. 
  Blatchley. 
  Mr. 
  Blatchley 
  has 
  also 
  taken 
  it 
  in 
  a 
  tamarack 
  swamp 
  in 
  

   Fulton 
  County, 
  Indiana, 
  and 
  says 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  abundantly 
  from 
  August 
  

   to 
  October. 
  It 
  was 
  found 
  around 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  a 
  pond 
  in 
  Vigo 
  County 
  

   and 
  in 
  Ohio 
  in 
  a 
  swamp 
  in 
  woods. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Lynds 
  Jones 
  writes 
  me 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  "found 
  in 
  abundance 
  in 
  the 
  

   rank 
  vegetation 
  which 
  sprang 
  up 
  in 
  a 
  dry 
  swamp 
  surrounded 
  by 
  woods" 
  

   in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Oberlin, 
  Ohio. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Blatchley 
  1 
  describes 
  the 
  colors 
  of 
  the 
  living 
  insect. 
  

  

  3. 
  PAROXYA 
  FLORIDANA. 
  

   (Plate 
  XXV, 
  fig. 
  10.) 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  florklianns 
  Thomas 
  !, 
  Bull. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  I, 
  No. 
  2 
  (1874), 
  p. 
  68. 
  

  

  Caloptenns 
  florklanus 
  Glover, 
  111. 
  N.A. 
  Ent., 
  Orth.(l874), 
  pi. 
  xvii, 
  fig-. 
  3. 
  — 
  Thomas, 
  

   Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Comm.. 
  I 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  42.— 
  Brunei?, 
  ibid.. 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  60. 
  

  

  Paroxya 
  atlanUca 
  Scudder! 
  (pars), 
  Proo. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Xat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1877), 
  pp. 
  

   29, 
  88; 
  (pars), 
  Ent. 
  Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878). 
  pp.7, 
  29; 
  (pars). 
  Cent. 
  Orth. 
  (1879), 
  

   p.46.— 
  Bruxer, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Eut. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  61.— 
  Ferxald. 
  Orth. 
  

   N.E. 
  (1888), 
  p.34; 
  Anu. 
  Rep. 
  Mass. 
  Agric. 
  Coll., 
  XXV 
  (1888), 
  p. 
  118.— 
  Davis, 
  

   Ent. 
  Amer., 
  Y 
  (1889), 
  p. 
  81.— 
  Smith, 
  Cat. 
  Ins. 
  N.J. 
  (1890), 
  p. 
  412; 
  Bull. 
  N. 
  J. 
  

   Exp. 
  St., 
  K 
  (1890), 
  p. 
  41; 
  ibid., 
  XC 
  (1892), 
  pp. 
  4, 
  31, 
  fig. 
  4g, 
  pi. 
  i, 
  2 
  figs.— 
  

   Bruxer, 
  Publ. 
  Nebr. 
  Acad. 
  Sc, 
  III 
  (1893), 
  p. 
  27.— 
  Morse, 
  Psyche, 
  VI 
  (1893), 
  

   pp. 
  401-402; 
  ibid., 
  VII 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  105.— 
  Garman, 
  Orth. 
  Ky. 
  (1894), 
  pp. 
  3, 
  8.— 
  

   Beutenmuller, 
  Bull. 
  Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  VI 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  305, 
  pi. 
  viii, 
  fig. 
  5. 
  

  

  Paroxya 
  recta 
  Scudder!, 
  Proc. 
  Bost. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  XIX 
  (1877). 
  pp. 
  30, 
  88; 
  Eut. 
  

   Notes, 
  VI 
  (1878), 
  pp. 
  8, 
  29; 
  Cent. 
  Orth. 
  (1879), 
  p. 
  47.— 
  Bruxer, 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   Ent. 
  Comm., 
  Ill 
  (1883), 
  p. 
  61.— 
  Smith, 
  Cat. 
  Ins. 
  N. 
  J. 
  (1890), 
  p. 
  412 
  ; 
  Bull. 
  N. 
  J. 
  

   Exp. 
  St., 
  K 
  (1890), 
  p. 
  41 
  ; 
  ibid., 
  XC 
  (1892), 
  pp. 
  4, 
  31, 
  fig. 
  4b. 
  

  

  Pezotcftix 
  atlanticus 
  Stal, 
  Bib. 
  K. 
  Sv. 
  Vet.-Akad. 
  Handl., 
  V, 
  No. 
  9 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  12. 
  

  

  PezoteUix 
  rectus 
  Stal, 
  Bib. 
  K. 
  Sv. 
  Vet.-Akad. 
  Haudl., 
  V, 
  No. 
  9 
  (1878), 
  p. 
  12. 
  

  

  Paroxya 
  fiorUlana 
  Smith, 
  Cat. 
  Ins. 
  N. 
  J. 
  (1890), 
  p. 
  412.— 
  Beutenmuller, 
  Bull. 
  

   Amer. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  VI 
  (1894), 
  p. 
  305. 
  

  

  Olivaceous, 
  excepting 
  top 
  of 
  head, 
  thorax, 
  and 
  tegmina, 
  which 
  vary 
  

   from 
  light 
  to 
  dark 
  brown. 
  Head 
  olivaceous 
  yellow 
  on 
  face 
  and 
  sides, 
  

  

  iCau. 
  Eut., 
  XXIV, 
  p. 
  32. 
  

  

  