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Dawes County, Nebraska, August 21, Bruner (same) ; Ogalalla, Keith 

 County, Nebraska, August 31 (L. Bruner); West Point, Cuniiug 

 County, Nebraska, September (U.S.N.M. Eiley collection; L. Bruuer) ; 

 Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, September (U.S.N.M. Riley col- 

 lection); Cordova, Eock Island County, Illinois, September 28, J. 

 McNeill; Lakin, Kearny County, Kansas, 3,000 feet, September 1; 

 between Smoky Hill, Kansas, and Denver, Colorado, September, L. 

 Agassiz (Museum Comparative Zoology); Pueblo, Colorado. 4,700 feet, 

 August 30-31; Dallas, Texas, Boll (U.S.N.M. Eiley collection; S. 

 H. Scudder); Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, May (U.S.N.M. 

 Eiley collection); Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (same); Montelovez, 

 Cohahuila, Mexico, September 20, E. Palmer; Sierra de San Miguel ito, 

 San Luis Potosi, Mexico, E. Palmer; Guanajuato, Mexico, A. Duges 

 (U.S.N.M.); Queretaro, Mexico, November (L. Bruner); Tlalpan, Mex- 

 ico, November (same). 



The species has also been reported from Colona, Henry County, Illi- 

 nois (McNeill), Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas (Bruner), Iowa 

 (Osborn), and Dakota (Bruner). McNeill states that the species was 

 to be found at Cordova, Illinois, only " in a large orchard on the east 

 side of a high hill." 



P. n. volucris has been seen by me from Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, 

 Texas, Arizona, and Mexico; P. n. nebrascensis from all the general 

 regions mentioned excepting Montana, Wyoming, and Arizona. 

 Bruner long ago pointed out the dimorphism. The antennae of south- 

 ern examples are relatively longer than in those from northern stations, 

 at least in the form P. n. nebrascensis. 



25. PAROXYA. 



(Ilcxpa, beside; Oxya, a genus of Acridiinae.) 

 Paroxya SCUDDER, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX (1877), pp. 28-29. 



Body straight, subcylindrical, briefly pilose. Head moderately large, 

 not prominent, the face subdeclivent, the eyes large, prominent, half as 

 long again (female) or twice as long (male) as the anterior infraocular 

 portion of the genae, separated from each other above by fully (male) 

 or very much more than (female) the width of the basal joint of the 

 antennae; fastigiuin rather broad, slightly sulcate; frontal costa rather 

 prominent above and punctate, subequal, percurrent, feebly sulcate, 

 about as broad as the interspace between the eyes; antennae long, half 

 or much more than half the length of the body in the male, equal, the 

 joints subdepressed, beyond the middle punctate. Dorsuin of pronotuni 

 twice as long as the average width, at least in the male, subequal 

 throughout, there being no median constriction, transversely very 

 broadly tectate, nearly plane, the median carina slight, equal, percur- 

 rent, the lateral carinae distinct but blunt, the prozona only about a 

 third (or less) longer than the metazona, the hind border of latter 



