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vinculata Scudder may be taken as type, is based upon char- 

 acters which are not, in the reviewer's opinion, of generic im- 

 portance and the genus should be sunk in synonymy under 

 Trimerotropis* 



P. 263. — Hadrotettix mundus Scudder belongs to the genus 

 Trimerotropis.^ 



Hadrotettix gracilis Bruner was a nomen nudum until it 

 was validated by Bruner in 1897. It is now referred to the 

 genus Trimerotropis where it is preoccupied and is replaced by 

 Trimerotropis hruneri McNeill, a name proposed for that pur- 

 pose, 



P. 278. — The Oedipoda vennsta of Stal has long been located 

 m the genus Spharagemon. It is a common Pacific coast spe- 

 cies. 



P. 341. — Here is another example of the ill working of type 

 citation by number, the type of Charilaus Stal being given as 

 No. 4, while but three species are catalogued. C. carinatus 

 Stal is the type species. 



P. 369. — The use of the emended form Rhomalea instead 

 of Romalea as originally spelled is not in accordance with the 

 laws bearing upon such matters. 



P. 370. — The Romalea gloveri here introduced is but a color 

 variety of Romalea microptera. 



P. 370. — The locality California under Litoscirfus insularis 

 should be Lower California. 



P. 434. — Ommatolampis brevipennis Thomas is a species of 

 Hesperotettix. Tt is correctly entered on p. 499. 



P. 461. ^Acridium ambigiia Thomas is a synonym of Schis- 

 tocerca americana Drury. 



P. 462. — Acridium frontalis Thomas is a synonym of Hes- 

 perotettix speciosus Scudder. It is correctly entered on p. 500. 



[* The name Pseudotrimerotropis was proposed to replace the re- 

 stricted Trimerotropis of McNeill, true Trimerotropis being equal to 

 his Agonosoa. The author of the name has never considered it of more 

 than subgeneric rank. (J. A. G. R.)] 



"Caudell, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. xi, p. 112 (1909). 



