MORGAN HEBARD 151 



Specimens Examined: 40; 26 males, 11 females, 1 immature male and 2 

 immature females. 



Texas : Laguna del Gato in Hidalgo County, Brownsville and Piper Planta- 

 tion in Cameron County. 



In addition to the type and allotype, a series of twenty-four 

 males and eight females bearing the same data are considered 

 paratypes. The material was all taken, with the exception of 

 three pairs, by Rehn and Hebard between July 31 and August 6, 

 1912. The others were taken at Brownsville April 30, 1895 (a 

 pair in coitu) and May 23, 1913. 



The insects were found common about Brownsville, in com- 

 pany with P. mimica Scudder, wherever grassy areas occurred, 

 either in the open or in open spaces in the river plain jungle 

 scrub. At the Piper Plantation, mimica was found to be much 

 the more abundant species in such situations. The present 

 insect probably enjoys a much wider distribution south of the 

 Rio Grande than in the United States. 

 Paraidemona fratercula 11 new species (Plate VIII, fig. 12.) 

 1897. Paraidemona punctata Scudder (not Pezotettix punctatus Stal, 1878), 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XX, p. 43. (In part.) [9, Corpus Christi Bay, 



Texas.] 



This insect is closely related to P. mimica Scudder, differing 

 only in the average smaller size, slightly more robust form and 

 in the male furcula and supra-anal plate. 



The distribution of this species does not reach as far east, 

 north or west in the United States as that of mimica. We would 

 note that, from the material at hand, mimica is generally dis- 

 tributed over the entire known range of fratercula, everywhere 

 averaging decidedly larger except in the Brownsville region of 

 Texas, where a marked reduction in size is shown by the majority 

 of specimens taken. As a result, we would have been unable to 

 separate females of these species from that region without the 

 large series now available. 



Type. — c? ; Lyford, Cameron County, Texas. August 6 and 7, 

 1912. (Rehn and Hebard.) [Hebard Collection, Type No. 477.] 



11 In allusion io the fact that this species is a diminutive form, showing close 

 relationship to P. mimica Scudder. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLIV. 



