•894.] 226 [Morse. 
Owing to a lack of sufficient material, I cannot decide positively 
the relation of this form to tlie western forms grouped with it by 
Mr. Scudder under the name aequale, or state definitely whether 
it is or is not found in the region traversed by Say. 
Since it presents certain diiTerences I have thought it best to 
consider it a subspecies and apply to it a name, scudderi,— 
which, under the circumstances, seems most appropriate and 
desirable. If it prove to be a geographical variety or subs])ecies, 
well and good; if, on the contrary, it be found along Say's 
route as Avell as in New England, this name can be droj.ped ; 
and should it prove to be a distinct species the name can stand, 
receiving specific value. 
I have given a full description of this form and have used 
only this name, scudderi, whei-ever reference is made to the New 
England form alone. 
III. Generic. 
The student will find it desirable and probably necessary to 
consult the paper referred to in which Scudder founded the 
genus,! and as the generic description is quite long I have omitted 
it here, but it seems desirable to note at this time one or two 
points in connection therewith. It is stated in the description 
of the genus that the median carina of the jironotum is divided 
by the principal sulcus into two parts, the front portion a little 
longer. This is evidently a slip, the reverse being true in all 
species seen, and almost the characteristic of the subfamily. 
The eyes are there characterized as rather small. This is true 
of the type of the genus, S. aequale. and those of S. colktre are 
quite small; they are of moderate size, however, in S. holli as 
well as in the two new species described here (saxatlle, ocnla- 
tum), in the males of which they are rather large and somewhat 
prominent. 
IV. Specific. 
Spharagemon aequale Say. (Scudder.) 
S. scudderi subsp. nov. 
Spharagemon aequale Say. Scudder, Proc. Bost. soc. nat. 
liist., V. 17, p. 468 
1 Spharagemon, —a genus of Oedipodidae; with a revision of the species. Proc. 
Bost. soc. nat. hist., v. 17, j). 4fi7-i71, 1875, also in Scudder's Entomological notes 
4, p. 66-70. 
PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. VOL. XXVI. 15 APItlL, 1894. 
