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M. bispinosus Scudd. G., 4. Open pastures among grass and short 

 weeds. The two males agree closely with Scudder's figure* but are 

 considerably smaller than his. The metazona is short, decidedly shorter 

 than the prozona. The larger male measures : body, 19 mm.; antennae, 

 7.5 mm.; tegmina, 15 mm.; hind femora, 10.7 mm. The other is nearly 

 one- fifth smaller. 



M. impiger Scudd. ? B., 12 ; G., n ; C.,Oct. 28 (Coll. I. S. L. N. H.). 

 Found in open grassy ground ; particularly abundant in the cotton field 

 referred to under atlanis. All are females, including a number in the 

 State Laboratory Collection, and a persistent search at each locality 

 failed to disclose the male. In the Texas Agricultural College collection 

 they are labeled impiger, but the description of this does not fit them 

 very well. 



M. plebejus Stal. C, 14; B., 16; H.. 6. Associated with M. scudderi 

 texensis ; superficially similar, but with glaucous hind tibiae and very 

 unlike male structures. Those from B. were in margin of heavy forest, 

 associated with M. robustus. 



M. deletor Scudd. C, 1 ; H., 27. Grassy banks in forest. Near 

 luridus, but larger. The cereal upper fork is bent up more than Scud- 

 der's key indicates. 



M. differ entialis Thorn. C, 1 ; Wellborn, Tex., Aug. 25; Brazos R., 

 July 20 ; C, Aug. 20 and Oct. 28 (Coll. I. S. N. H. ). 



M. robustus Scudd. Common in margin of heavy forest area on low, 

 flat-bottom land, associated with M. plebejus. 



Scudderia furcata Brunn. C, tf, 9 (Coll. I. S. L. N. H.). Tarsi, 

 hind tibae, and tips of hind femora blackish, and the tympanum and pos 

 terior edge of tegmina fuscous. Genital structures as in furcata. 



Microcentrum laurifolium Linn. C, Oct. 3 (Coll. I. S. L. N. H.). 



Conocephalus fuscostriatus Redt. G., I. In the folds of the before- 

 mentioned old pair of pants. 



C. mexicanus Sauss. H., t ; G., t. 



Xiphidium strictum Scudd. Wellborn, Tex., June 26 (Coll. I. S. L. 

 N. HL). 



Stipator cragini Brun. Wellborn, Tex., June 26 (Coll. I. S. L. N. H.). 



Nemobius fasciatus vittatus Harr. B., 1. 



N. socius Scudd. C, 3; B, 6; G., 2. Apparently the commonest 

 Nemobius about cultivated land. In several species of this genus an in- 

 termediate form between the long and short-winged forms has been 

 noted, in which the tegmina are as in the long-winged forms, the dorsal 

 field slightly projecting behind, but the wings are absent — as in Lugger's 

 figure of fasciatus vittatus. One of the socius is of this form. 



N. funeralis, n. sp. C, one female. Rather small, almost wholly 

 black, antennae fusco-testaceous on basal half, except the basal joint, 

 with a few black annulations ; maxillary palpi black, the penultimate 



PI. XIX, fig. 6. 



