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female is longer in blatcltlcyi than in rclici, being about 4 mm. 

 in the former and 3 mm. in the latter ; the cerci of the female 

 Manouicra are also decidedly longer than in either Diaphcro- 

 mcra I'clici or fcnwrata. the actual length in adult individuals 

 before me being 3.75 mm. in hlatchlc\i, 2 mm. in velici and 

 1.25 mm. in fcuwrata. Additional characters for the separa- 

 tion of the males of velici and blatcJilcyi are found in the inner 

 basal projections of the cerci, these being slender and apically 

 acute in velici, while in blatchlcyi they are blunter and stouter, 

 less so, however, than in D. fcmorata. 



Diapherouicra velici is apparently not at all a common spe- 

 cies and probably does not occur in Illinois, or rarely so. 



Material in the National Museum comes from the following locali- 

 ties ; San Diego, Texas, May 15th, one $, Schwarz ; Victoria, Texas, 

 August 24th, one $ , W. E. Hinds ; 40 miles South of Alice, Texas. 

 June 15th, 1904, one mated pair, Barber; Stillwater, Oklahoma, one 

 $, Caudell ; Garden City, Kansas, July 27th, 1891, one 9; Lakin, 

 Kansas, July 27th, 1891, one $ ; Pipestone, Minnesota, August 4th, 

 191 1, one $. The locality labels on the Kansas specimens are not per- 

 fectly legilile and, as the dates are the same, it is possible that they 

 are from the same source. 



As represented bv the above listed material this species is 

 seen to extend across the Middle States from Texas to Min- 

 nesota. The exact local habitat of none of these specimens is 

 known except of the mated pair from 40 miles south of Alice, 

 Texas : these were taken by Mr. Barber on weeds or shrubs 

 on the prairie some distance from any woodland. This agrees 

 with the habitat of the type. 



Manomera blatchlcyi is represented in the National Museum 

 by material from Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, 

 Maryland, \^irginia, New York and New Jersey. The Atlantic 

 Coast material is composed of female specimens only, but they 

 appear to agree specifically with specimens from the type local- 

 ity. The Middle West specimens, so far as known, were taken 

 in open field or prairie regions. Of the Atlantic Coast speci- 

 mens I took one in the woods on a stone and Mr. Barber took 

 one on a post by the Club House on Plummer's Island, Mary- 

 land. These are the only ones of which I know the exact 



