orth()1'tp:ra of nova scotia. — piers. 319 



Halifax althoufih it may very easily have been mistaken for 

 a narrower-winged variety of S. pistillaUt, which at first I 

 took it to be.* The typical *S. curvicaudn curvicnuda has not 

 so far been found in our provinc^^ and is without doubt 

 replaced in this region by the race borealis. The record of 

 Phaneroptera curvicauda from Nova Scotia by F. Walker in 

 1872 (Can. Ent., iv, 30), appears to me to have been S. pis- 

 tillata, as mentioned under that species, but one cannot 

 be at all certain as his specimen seems to be lost. 



C. B. Gooderham of the Agricultural College, Truro, 

 who first drew mj'^ attention to this insect, has in his col- 

 lection certain specimens of this new subspecies, viz.: two 

 males and two females taken at Wilmot, Ann. Co., 6 Sept., 

 1915, by W. E. Whitehead; three males taken at Truro, 

 Col. Co., 8 Oct., 1916, by himself, and one specimen from 

 Deerfield, Yar. Co., by E. C. Allen. In the collection of 

 the Agricultural College, Truro, is one male taken at Kentville, 

 Kings Co., on 12 Aug., 1914, by C. A. Good. It doubtless 

 occurs from early in August until about the middle of October. 

 Specimens sent to J. A. G. Rehn by Mr. Gooderham in 

 Feb. 1917 were verified by the former as his and Mr. Hebard's 

 S. curvicauda borealis, so that the determination is authori- 

 tative. 



While I have not, as before said, detected it about 

 Halifax, it very likely may occur here and should be searched 

 for. In the western part of the province from Truro to 

 Yarmouth, Air. Gooderham tells me it appears to be rather 

 common, as he has taken it at two or three different places 

 and has received it from two others, and he thinks that in 

 that region it must be as abundant as S. pistillata. E. Chesley 

 Allen informs him that there is a narrow-winged Scudderia 

 which is very common aljout Deei-field, Yar. Co., which is 

 probably borealis, as Mr. Gooderham has one specimen of 



*Prof. W. S. Blatchley in lOK rfjferred some of Mr. Gooderham's specimens to S. pis- 

 lillata, and Dr. E. M. Walker referred them at first to .S'. cumicaudn but he now agrees tliat 

 they are the form borealis. 



