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There are eight specimens of a third species of these "stone crickets" 

 which I am unable to refer to any of the described North American forms. 

 It may be that they are new, and if this be the case, I will give them the 

 name of Ceuthophilus silveistris, or Ceuthophilus of the forest or woods. 

 The specimens before me are very small not more than 7 45 mm. in 

 length, but appear to be fully matured, for the females have well developed 

 ovipositors. Professor Cragin writes me that they were obtained under 

 logs in the woods. 



This insect belongs to the same group with C. macul'itus, but differs 

 from that species in the arrangement of the markings. The general color 

 is a dull light-brown, with all the segments above bordered posteriorly 

 rather broadly with piceous ; posterior tibiae armed with four pairs of rather 

 long divergent spines. 



16. Vdeopsyiia rotmsta Hald. ^ single female specimen from the 

 Gypsum Hills of Barber Co. (Cragin). 



17. Daihiiiia gig-antea n. sp. The collection contains a single male 

 specimen of a species belonging to the genus Daihinia which may be new. 

 I label it D. giganten, but will not describe it fully until I have had an 

 opportunity to compare it with the types of D. brevipes of Haldeman, 

 which latter species also occurs in Kansas. The specimen before me is of 

 a very dark mahogany-brown color, with an interrupted dorsal line of a 

 somewhat lighter shade. There are a few irregular mottlings of the same 

 color along the sides of the pronotum and other lobes of the body. Pos- 

 terior femora very heavy and clumsy, furnished beneath with a row (9) of 

 short spines. Posterior tibiae more bowed than in brewpes, and furnished 

 with four alternating spines upon each of the two upper edges ; lower edge 

 also spined on the apical half. Length of body, 29 mm. ; of posterior fem- 

 ora, 24.5 mm. ; of posterior tibiae, 25 mm. Labette Co. (Dr. Newlon). 



18. Microceiitrum lanrifoliiim L. Topeka (Cragin) ; Labette Co. 

 (Newlon) ; Reno Co. (L. A. O'Hara). 



19. Arettuea gracilipes Thos. Barber Co. (Cragin). 



This is one of the few southern species that extends northward into 

 Kansas and Colorado in its distribution. 



20. Scuddcria curvicanda De Geer. Barber Co. (Cn'.gin) ; McPherson 

 Co. (Rundstrom). 



21. Scuddcria furcata ? Brunner. Barber Co. (Crajjin) ; Labette Co. 



(Newlon). 



Until quite recently (1878) it was supposed that we had but a single 

 species of this group in this country, hence it has become a matter of great 

 difficulty to decide just what insect is meant when we see an account of, or 

 reference to, Phaneroptera cnrvicnudo. Harris described a second species 

 (Phaneroptera angwt! folia) in his -'Report on Insects Injurious to Vege- 

 tation" ; but this was also afterwards placed as a synonym of curvicauda 

 by Dr. Scudder. There have been six species described thus far and I 

 have a seventh from California; and when the country of the interior shall 

 have been carefully gone over, and everything in this group brought to- 

 gether, I am confident there will be still others. 



