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(same); Amh«Tst, Hampshire County, Masaaclnisetts, August 22 

 (same); Canaan, Litcbtield County, Connecticut, Au«iuat \f^ (same): 

 Kllenville, Ulster County, New York, September, Beutenmiiller (A. 1*. 

 Morse; S. II. Scudder) ; Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, August 2. 

 28 (A. P. Morse); Point of Kocks, Frederick County, Maryhmd, August 

 19, Perga»ide (L. Bruner); Middle States, Osten Sacken; Virginia (L. 

 Brunei) ; Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, October, Packard (Museum ( 'om- 

 parative Zoology); Indiana, October 7, Blatchley (A. P. Morse); Fulton 

 County, Indiana, Blatchley; Vigo (Vmnty, Indiana Blatchley (A. P. 

 Morse); Putnam County, Indiana, August 20, Blatchley (same); Bloom 

 ington, Monroe County, Indiana, IJollman (U.S.N.M.); Illinois, Sep- 

 tember (L. Bruner); Rock Island, Illinois, Walsh; Dallas, Texas, Boll 

 (U.S.N.M. — Riley collection; S. II. Scudder). 



It has also been reported from Vermont (Scudder); Staten Island, 

 New York (Davis); Ocean County, New Jersey (Smith); Ohio (Thomas); 

 Galesburg, Knox County, and Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois 

 (McNeill), and eastern Nebraska (Bruner). 



Bruner reports it from oak groves and Smith on cranberry bogs, but 

 Beutenmiiller has found that it lives on pine trees. Blatchlej' found it 

 in the depths of a tamarack swamp, and says it is not an active insect, 

 "usually, after one or two short leaps, sciuatting close to the earth, and 

 seemingly depending upon the close similarity of its hues to the gray- 

 ish lichens about it to avoid detection." Others have since found it on 

 coniferous trees, and these are, apparently, its proper station. 



24. PHOETALIOTES, new genus. 

 {^oiTaXicbrr/?, aToamoT.) 



Body elongate, rather slender, a little compressed, very feeblj' pilose, 

 including faintly the tegmina and legs. Head large, full, prominent, 

 relatively elongate, nearly half as long again as the long prozona, the 

 space behind the eyes fully half as long as the breadth of the eyes, the 

 genae a little tumescent, the head apart from the eyes slightly broader 

 than the pi^onotum; vertex prominent and well arched both longi- 

 tudinally and transversely; face a little obliciue; eyes rounded broad 

 oval, moderately prominent, subtruncate anteriorly, moderately dis- 

 tant, somewhat farther apart than the greatest width of the frontal 

 costa; fastigium very faintly sulcate, almost plane; frontal costa promi- 

 nent, markedly narrower above than below the ocellus; antennae 

 slender, moderately long, but shorter than the hind femora, though fully 

 twice as long as the pronotum. Pronotum of moderate length, faintly 

 subsellate but otherwise equal, feebly flaring in front to receive the head ; 

 disk rounded subtectate, with broadly rounded very indistinct lateral 

 carinae, and a sharp, equal, and iiercurrent median carina; prozona 

 longitudinal, nearly half as long again as the metazona, with indistinct 

 tninsverse sulci; front margin subtruncate, hind margin extremely ob- 

 tusaugidate. Prosternal spine rather large, erect, conical, blunt; meso- 

 and metastethia together much more than twice as long as broad; 



