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attempting to escape. The spot on the board where these groups 

 occurred was always a wet one, and on it there was to be seen a mass of 

 very minute white eggs in the midst of a matrix of thin, transparent gela- 

 tin. In these companies of adults, males and females were intermingled. 



Larva. (PI. 15, fig. 6) Length 5.7 mm; greatest diameter i mm. 



Body cylindric, tapering anteriorly on the thoracic segments to the 

 head, which is minute and more or less completely retracted within the 

 prothorax. Segments increasing a little in thickness to the sixth abdom- 

 inal, and in length to the seventh abdominal. 



Color uniform whitish. Skin finely rugulose striate. 



There are paired prominent ventral prolegs on the first eight abdominal 

 segments; those on segments 1-7 similar, blunt, cylindric, equaling 

 in length one third the diameter of the abdomen, bearing two termi- 

 nal rows (of six to nine each) of thin, flat sharp, strongly curved 

 exteriorly directed claws. Prolegs of the eighth segment longer, curved 

 posteriorly, bearing a greater number of thin claws or hooks with apices 

 directed anteriorly, the innermost much the largest. 



There are two fine setae on the ventral side of the prothorax near its 

 anterior end. The apex of the abdomen bears two pairs of setigerous 

 processes, and below and at the sides of these a pair of low, bare, blunt 

 prominences. The processes of the upper of the two above mentioned 

 pairs, divaricate, wide apart, as long as the anterior prolegs, bearing each 

 three setae longer than itself. The lower pair shorter, approximated on 

 the apex of the abdomen, each with two shorter setae. 



Pupa. Length 4.2 mm. 



Free, cylindric, arcuate ; clear yellow, with brownish spines and angles. 



Face directed ventrally ; two pairs of strong setae on the top of the 

 head, with a corrugated surface between them; cases of the antennae 

 simple, short, not exceeding half the length of the face. Mouth parts, 

 wings and legs as usual, the hind legs under the wings. Prothorax at 

 its anterior margin elevated in a pair of pyramidal triangular processes, 

 directed above the hind angles of the head. 



There are a few stiff setae on the thoracic dorsum ; abdominal segments 

 1-8 bear each a median transverse whorl of stiff setae, alternating larger 

 and smaller, and becoming much stouter dorsally toward the hind end of 

 the abdomen and much fewer on the eighth segment ; ninth segment 

 very short, with a pair of apical lobes, each of which bears a strong, long, 

 ventrally curved hook, as long as segments 8 and 9 together. On 

 the inner side of this hook at its base is a minute, erect spinule. 



STRAY NOTES ON OTHER ORDERS 

 ORTHOPTERA 



No effort was made to collect these, but a few that were picked up 



incidentally were taken to Mr Scudder, who has kindly given me the 



following list of their names. 



Acrididae 



Tettixgranulatus Kirby. This was not uncommon on the dry 



lichen mats on Blueberry island in Little Clear pond. 



Tettigidea parvipennis Harris. In bogs on sphagnum. 



