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[May, '06 



Chrysocharis albitarsis Ashm. 

 Aug. 1, Oct. 2, 6, 1895. 

 4 specimens, % , $. 

 Solenotus bimaculatus Ashm. 

 Sept. 27, 1895. 

 1 specimen, 9. 

 Co-types, types in Ashmead coll. 

 Solenotus pulchripes Ashm. 

 Sept. 27, Oct. 2, 3, 1895. 

 Co-types, type in Ashmead coll. 

 Tetrastichus racemarice Ashm. 

 July 7, 1894. 

 1 specimen, $ . 

 Tetrastichus sp. ? 



Sept. 27, Oct. 27, 1895. 

 4 specimens, <^. 



Tetrastichus sp. ? 

 Oct. 2, 1895. 

 2 specimens, 9- 

 Closterocerus niger Ashm. 

 June 25, 1894. 

 1 specimen, $. 

 Co-type, type in Ashmead coll. 

 Riley a cecidomyicc Ashm. 

 Aug. 16, 1865. 

 1 specimen, 9 . 



EVANIIDJE. 



Hyptia reticulata Say. 

 Gasteruption incertus Cress. 



Notes of a Winter Trip in Texas, with an Annotated 

 List of the Orthoptera. 



By Charles A. Hart, Urbana, 111. 



In late December and early January I had the pleasure of 

 briefly studying the insect-life of four unlike Texan localities. 

 For valued assistance in this undertaking, I wish to express 

 my thanks to my relative, Prof. E. C. Green, and to Prof. A. 

 F. Conradi, both of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College ; to the Houston and Texas Central Railroad ; and 

 to Mr. A. P. Atwater, of Houston. 



The first six days, December 22-27, were spent in the 

 vicinity of the College, in Brazos County, 150 miles inland 

 from the Gulf. The soil is clayey or sandy upland, partly 

 covered with a scrubby forest, mostly post oak, and intersected 

 by shallow grassy ravines. On December 28th and 29th I 

 was in the broad bottom lands of the Brazos River, in the 

 same county, areas of heavy forest, alternating with large 

 fields of cotton, alfalfa, etc. January 3d and 4th saw me at 

 work along the low open grassy outer shore of Galveston 

 Island, near the west end of the great sea wall ; and the 5th 

 and 6th, in the coastal plain at Houston, fifty miles inland, 

 west of the section called Houston Heights, in the vicinity of 



