NO 1124. liEJISfOy OF THE MKLAynPIJ—SCrDDKIi. 383 



basally with a narrow post-basal black aiinulus in the luteons i)ortion, 

 the spines black cxcei)tin<»- at extreme base, ten to eleven in nnniber in 

 the outer series. Supraanal plate of male short triangular, mesially tec- 

 tate, witli a very slender, deep, percurrent sulcus broadening consider- 

 ably at the ai)ex; t'urcula consisting of a i>air of adjacent, parallel, 

 pretty long and coarse, strongly depressed, somewhat tapering, blunt 

 apophyses; cerci compressed laminate, strongly incurved throughout, 

 tapering to a* much as half the basal widtli in the proximal half and 

 then immediately and as regularly widening to nearly the basal width 

 in the distal half, subtruncate apically. 



Length of body, male, 20 mm., fenmle, 20 mm. ; antennae, male, 12 

 mm., female, 12.5 mm.; tegmina, male, 9.25 mm., female, 10.5 mm.; hind 

 femora, male, 12 mm., female, 1<» mm. 



Ten males, 8 females. Vigo County, Indiana ( W. S. Blatchley ; A. P. 

 Morse) ; Oberliu, Lorain County, Ohio, September 21, coll. L. Jones, W. 

 S. Blatchley. Mr. Blatchley has also taken it in a tamarack swamp in 

 Fulton County, Indiana, and says it is found abundantly- from August 

 to October. T^ was found around the margins of a pond in Vigo Countj' 

 and in Ohio in a swamp in woods. 



Mr. Lynds Jones writes me that it is ''found in abundance in the 

 rank vegetation which sjnang up in a dry swamp surrounded by woods" 

 in the vicinity of Oberlin, Ohio. 



Mr. Blatchley' describes the colors of the living insect. 



3. PAROXYA FLORIDANA. 

 (Plate XXV, lijr. 10.) 



Caloptenus liorxdianm ThomasI, Bull. U. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., I. Xo. 2 (1S74), p. 6s. 



Coloptenus Jtoridanus Glover. 111. X.A. Eut.. Orth.(ls74), pi. xvii. tij;. 3. — Thomas, 

 Re]). U. S. Eut. Comni.. I (1^78 ), p. 42.— Bruxeh, ibid., Ill (1883), p. (»0. 



Paroxya ailant'tca ScuddekI (pars), Proc Bost. Soc. Xat. Hist., XIX (1877), pp. 

 29, 88; (pars), Eut. Notes, VI (1878). pp.7, 29; (pars), Ceut. Orth. (1879), 

 p. 46.— BRtXER, Rep. U. S. Eut. Comm.. Ill (1883), p. 61.— Ferxald. Oith. 

 N.E. (1888),p.a4; Anu. Rep. Mass. Agric. Coll., XXV (18X8), p. 118.— Davis, 

 Ent. Anier., V (1889), p. 81.— Smith. Cat. Ins. N.J. (1890), p. 412; Bull. N. J. 

 Exp. St., K (1890). p. 41; ibid.. XC (1892), pp. 4, 31, fig. 4g. pi. i. 2 tigs.— 

 Bruxer, Publ. Nebr. Acad. Sc, III (1893), p. 27.— Morse. Psyche, VI (1S93), 

 pp. 401-402; ibid., VII (1894). p. 1 )5.— Garmax. Ortb. Ky. (1894). pp. 3.S.— 

 BeutenmClleh. Bull. Anier. Mus. Xat. Hist.. VI (1894), p. 305, pi. viii. fig. ."». 



Paroxya recta Scudder:, Pioc. Lost. Soc. Nat. Hist.. XIX (1877). pp. 30. 88: Ent. 

 Notes, VI (1878), pp. 8, 29; Cent. Orth. (1879). p. 47.— Bruxer, Rep. U. S. 

 Ent. Comm., Ill (1883), p.61.— Smith, Cat. lus. N. J. (18i»0), p.412; Bull.N.J. 

 Exp. St.. K (1890), p. 41; ibid.,XC (1892), pp.4, 31, fig. 4h. 



PezoMiix atlanticiis Stal, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., V, No. 9 (1878), p. 12. 



Pezotetiix rectus Stal, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., V, No. 9 (1878), p. 12. 



Paroxya ftoritlana Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J. (1890), p. 412.— Beutexmuller, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., VI (1894), p. 305. 



Olivaceous, excepting top of head, thorax, and tegmina, which vary 

 from light to dark brown. Head olivaceous yellow on face and sides, 



--^7 iCan. Ent., XXIV, p.32. 



