36 FURTHER RESEARCHES ON NORTH AMERICAN 



Lcprus wheeleri Thomas. 



Texas: Clarendon; Quanah (juv. 3, 4, 5); Wichita Falls. 

 Four adults and several young were taken on roadsides and in 

 open fields, the young on the stony rise shown in plate 9, fig. i. 

 These were of a very pale bluish-gray, the color of the soil on which 

 they lived. 



Tropidolophus formosus Say. 

 Texas: Amarillo. 



Two specimens were secured among the Euphorbia and other 

 coarse weeds on an old road-plowing (pi. 9, fig. 2). 



Dissosteira Carolina Linne. 



Georgia: Sand Mountain; Trenton. 



Alabama: Anniston; Cheaha Mountain; Lookout Mountain; (McCalla, juv. 



4) ; Valley Head. 



Mississippi: (Hattiesburg, juv. 4) ; Meridian. 

 Arkansas: Blue Mountain Station; Dardanelle; Fayetteville ; Magazine 



Mountain; Mena; Ola; Rich Mountain; Rich Mountain Station; 



Winslow. 



Indian Territory: Caddo; Haileyville; Howe; South McAlester. 

 Texas: Amarillo; Clarendon; Denison. 

 Oklahoma: Cache; Mountain Park; Shawnee; Snyder. 



This very common and widely distributed species was met with 

 at practically every locality visited, inhabiting roadsides, waste places, 

 and all spots of bare ground, in city or country alike. 



Dissosteira longipennis Thomas. 



Texas: Amarillo; Clarendon; Wichita Falls. 

 Oklahoma: Mountain Park. 



Very common on the arid plains, associating with Trimerotropis 

 latifasdata, Spharagemon aequale, and its relative Carolina on roadsides 

 and other exposed soil surfaces. It is distinctly warier and takes 

 longer flights, consequently is more difficult to capture, than Carolina. 



Spharagemon aequale Say. 



Texas: Amarillo; Clarendon; Quanah; Wichita Falls. 

 Oklahoma: Cache; Mountain Park; base of Mount Sheridan. 



This large and strikingly handsome species is very common on 

 bare soil on the arid plains, whirring up from the roadside in numbers 

 in company with species of Trimerotropis , Hadrotettix y and Dissosteira. 

 Active and wary, however, either strategy or plentiful exercise is 

 necessary to secure it in series. Examples are frequently met with 

 having the metazona white, presenting a conspicuous collared pattern 

 of marking. 



