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four segments. Two eyes with three separate dark globular 
pigmented masses. Abdomen ovoid. Deposited by viviparous 
migrant from alder, in crevices of bark on trunk of maple. 
Shortly after birth this form sheds a thin white membranous 
skin which commonly adheres to caudal tip of abdomen. After 
copulation the female deposits a single large egg. 
Male——Darker than female and greenish. Apterous and 
non-rostrated, measuring .68 mm. in length. Antennae of four 
segments. Two eyes with pigmented area in one large irreg- 
ular mass. Abdomen linear. Sheds skin after birth as does 
the female. This form is smaller than the egg it fertilizes: 
Egg—Comparatively large egg filling most of the abdomen 
of the female and measuring about .83 mm, It is yellow and 
glistening and deposited usually with a downy white secretion. 
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Notes on an Orthopterous Leaf Roller. 
By W. L. McArtes, U. S. Biological Survey. 
(Plate XXV) 
Under a title, by prefixing two words to which, I have 
formed that of the present article, Mr. A. N. Caudell in 1903 
described* some exceptional habits of Camptonotus carolinensis 
Gerstacker. While I have but little, I fear, to add to Mr. 
Caudell’s excellent account, the accompanying photographs 
will, I hope, prove welcome, especially since one of them, in 
a way, illustrates his article as well as my own. 
On August 2, 1908, while collecting insects on Plummer’s 
Island, Md., in company with Mr. E. A. Schwarz, a heavily 
fruited specimen of the bladdernut (Staphylea trifoliata L.) 
attracted my attention and I proposed that we examine it for 
insect work. A brief inspection showed that a great many of 
the swollen triangular pods had rather large irregular holes 
in them. Mr. Schwarz, in opening one, disclosed a locustid 
which escaped, but not before I recognized it as Camptonotus. 
A minute later, discovering another, I succeeded in keeping it 
in its lair, one of the 3 roomy cells of the bladdernut, in which 
*Proc. Ent. Soc., Wash. Vol. vi. pp. 46-49. 1904. 
