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Another exceptional and striking variation, but one which is found to crop 

 out in other species of the genus as well, is a condition in which the pronotum 

 has a broad band of cinnamon-buff on each side dorsad on the lateral lobes 

 along the lateral carinae of the disk, while the dorsal surfaces of the caudal 

 femora are also cinnamon-buff except the genicular areas which are suffused 

 with dark brown, only a trace of the dark bars remaining. Two males and 

 eight females of the present series show this condition to varying degrees; it 

 is very striking and as fully developed as described above in but three of these. 



Specimens Examined: 136; 65 males and 71 females. 



California: Del Monte. 



The entire series of this interesting little insect was taken by 

 Hebard on August 20, 1909, and by Rehn and Hebard on Sep- 

 tember 9 and 10, 1910. The species was found plentiful in the 

 flat, open, sandy country, where much low grass and a low yellow- 

 flowered " tar-weed" was to be found. This species was also 

 found moderately abundant on a yellow-flowered Composite 

 bush, Chrysomd ericoides (Less.), growing about sand dunes near 

 the shore. 23 



Asemoplus somesi 24 new species (Plate XXIX, figs. 8 and 9.) 

 1904. Podisma polita Caudell (not of Scudder, 1899), Ent. News, xv, p. 63. 



[ 9 ; Kitchener Glacier on Mt. Kokanee, British Columbia.] 

 1907. Asemoplus nudus Caudell (not of E. M. Walker, 1898 25 ), Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. Washington, viii, p. 134. [cf, 9 ; Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier, Wash- 

 ington.] 

 1910. Podisma nuda E. M. Walker (in part not Asemoplus nudus of E. M. 

 Walker, 1898), Can. Ent. xlii, p. 333. [cf, 9 ; Banff, Alberta, Canada, and 

 referring Caudell's record of Podisma polita to this species.] 



23 See notes under Hesperotettix pacificus capillatus on page 262. 



24 We take pleasure in naming this species for Mr. M. P. Somes, who has done 

 excellent work in Orthoptera in Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri, and who has 

 frequently furnished us with material of great importance in our studies. 



25 Examination of the entire series of paratypes and the description and 

 figures of Asemoplus nudus E. M. Walker and comparison with the type and 

 allotype of Pezotettix hispidus Bruner, shows that nudus is an absolute synonym 

 of the latter species. We have further learned from Dr. Walker that his 

 original determination was hispidus, but that he wrote Scudder, sending mate- 

 rial and asking if the specimens were not hispidus, to which a reply was received 

 congratulating him on the discovery of a new species and making no allusion 

 to hispidus whatever. Thus we find another synonym attributable largely to 

 the carelessness of Scudder. Dr. Walker, a most careful and excellent student, 

 was in this case the victim. 



We would note that Scudder removed hispidus from Pezotettix to his new 

 genus Bradynotes. This is unwarranted, the species being in no way a deriva- 

 tive from the Bradynotes stock and is best assigned to the genus Asemoplus as 

 at present understood. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLV. 



