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Range. — This form ranges over the United States and southeastern 

 Canada east of the Great Plains: from Nova Scotia, Brunswick (Maine), 

 Montreal (Que.), Lake Nipissing (Ont.), and Wise, south to Fla., around the 

 Gulf Coast to Texas, Nebr. and So. Dak. Specimens showing atypical ten- 

 dencies are found in Idaho, Wash., Oregon, and Calif. Southwestward it 

 intergrades with S.furcatafurcifera Scudder, which occurs typically in Mexico 

 and New Mexico It is common everywhere in New England. 



Occurrence in Nova Scotia. — It is very far from certain 

 that this was the species referred to by F. Walker (1872), 

 under the name Phylloptera myrtifolia, as having been taken 

 in Nova Scotia. B. M. A. Cummings of the British Museum 

 in reply to my query whether Walker's Nova Scotian speci- 

 men of "P. myrtifolia" is S. furcata, writes me (14 Jan. '16) 

 that there is in that Museum "one specimen with label 

 'Redman' [that is, Lieut. Redman, the collector who supplied 

 Walker's Nova Scotian specimens]; also one *S'. furcata with 

 which the former does .not agree. In the collection the 

 Nova Scotian specimen is labelled P. myrtifolia as synonymous 

 with *S. laticauda. In W. F. Kirb^^'s Systematic Catalogue 

 of Orthoptera (ii, 445-446, 1906) it is given as synonymous 

 with *S. furcata." Mr. Cummings adds, "I do not think 

 the Nova Scotian specimen will prove to be either S. furcata 

 or S. laticauda." S. laticauda, of course, it cannot be. All 

 we can say is, that Walker's Phaneroptera curvicauda and 

 Phylloptera myrtifolia from Nova Scotia, must represent two 

 of the three forms Scudderia pistillata, furcata furcata, and 

 curvicauda horealis, but which of them it is difficult at this 

 distance to say. His curvicauda I think muet have been 

 pistillata. 



Scudderia furcata furcata had not been detected by me 

 when I published my paper on Nova Scotian Orthoptera in 

 1896. In the dusk of the evening, on 30 September, 1897, 

 I captured two males of this form at Chocolate Lake, near 

 the head of the North West Arm, near Halifax, N. S.* One 

 of the.se was on a balsam fir (Abies balsamea), the other on 

 .a witherod bush (Viburnum cassinoides) , and a third, which 



* The spot where these specimens were taken was a few rods from the shore on thf 

 south side of Chocolate Lake near its east end. The ground was dry there, but adjoining it 

 southward was a small bog. At the spot were low bushes, small balsam firs and large white 

 pines with a few red spruces. The pine was the characteristic tree of the locality. 



