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Psyche 8:54, 1897.

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PSYCHE. [April 1807.
peus pale yellowish; widlh .7 mm. Body
thick and robust with large black warts, grayish, brown mottled, no marks except a faint, pale, dorsal line. Hair abundant, stiff, bristly, bilrbuled coarsely, black, a few longer hairs posteriorly. Later there is a faint wavy white subdoreal line below wart ii. Sfage IV. Lobes of head shining' black,
clypeus pale yellowish ; width 1.1 nlm. Body blackish brown, not so dark as usual, no marks except a very faint paler straight dor- sal and a lateral line (below ii). Warts shin- ing black, faintly pale ringed at the base. Hair as before with the addition of two very long slender white hairs from joint 13. Later the pale marks around warts iii are faintly reddish.
Singe V. Head pale brownish, a black
sliade on each lobe in front, mouth brown. eyes large, black; w.idth 1.55 mm. Body
black, the warts shining, large with stift' black hairs, a pair of long (12 mm.) white ones posteriorly. No distinct marks; a filint whitish dassh below wart iii, fine pale dorsal and subdorsal (below iij lines; lateral area paler than the dorsal, the bases of warts iii to v slightly reddish.
Stage VI.
Head shining black, bases of
antennae and line above mouth whitish;
width 2.2 mm. Body all black, velvety;
warts shining, the bases of ii to iv faintly reddish under a lens, no marks visible to the unaided eye. Hair bristly, deep black, bar- buled, some longer ones posteriorly, but all alike black. Tips of feet pale.
Singe VII (interpolated). IIead black,
the sides, clypeus, sutures and mouth more brownish; width 2.5 t02.7 mm.
Body black,
the basal rings of the warts dull luteous, warts shining, no other marks. Hair very coarse with bsu'bules as before.
Singe yill. Head as in stage vi, width
about 3 mm.
Body and hair black, the bases
of the warts shining, the ends of all the feet pale; no marks.
The back and sides of the
head are brownish and later the antennae and line above the inoulh becomes pinkish. The larvae hibernate in this stage. The
growth is slow. The eggs hatched toward
the end of June, the last molt took place between August 24th and September 12th in different larvae and hibernation began soon afterward.
Foo~l plants various low plants.
PINK LOCUSTARIANS.
A SPECIMEN of Amblytorypha ob.to?dgifolia of a vinous color was sent me in 1886 by Mrs. Sidney I. Smith who took it hug. 9, at Woods' Holl. It was dead when it reached me but had been kept alive some time. All the green paits including both tegminn and wings were tinted of a uniform color except that the thickened green flecks of the normal tegmina and the lateral carinae of the pro- noturn were fuscous. So too were the eves, but the antennae, except the extreme base, were luteous like the ordinary fonn. The specimen wns a 9 and the color extended to the ovipositor of course, the denticles of which we1 e fuliginous.
Two other specimens (8 52) of the same
species were also taken at the same place by Mr. Richard Rathbnn and Prof. A. E. Verrill on Aug. 29, 1886, and were examined while still living. The 9 is of ii pale coral red verging on magenta, the abdomen a shade
paler, while the $ is of an orange red. The tegmina of the 2 are of a very clear color with scarcely a single fleck of brown while those of the f are much dotted (for Ambiy- corypha) with brown and longitudinsilly
flecked with yellow, while the stridulating field is almost entirely dull brown, and an obscure patch of the same color more distinct on one side than the other appears near the middle of the outer half of the tegmina near the upper margin. In both the palpi are of the color of the body, but the eyes are green and the antennae of the normal luteous.
The lateral carinae of the pronoturn are luteous in the $ , fuscous in the 8.
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They devour the flowers of golden rod and clover etc. with great zest.
All parties at Woods' Holl during the sea- son insist upon it that they had uo tempera- tun-e at all approiichiug the freezing point. I described (Psyche ii, 189) a similar speci- men of A. rofmidifoiiti - published in Dec., 1878; and Brunner speaking of the same
species in his Munogr, dei" Phaneropt. (p. 269) SXJS one Pennsylvania specimen has violet tegmina. He also gives instances of similar variation in other Locustarians. Lewis gives an instance of the s2me peculiarity in Cyrto- -hkyllum coizcavum (Proc. Acad. nat. sc. Philiid., 1883, 44). Samuel H. Scudder.
MCNEILL ON TKYXAL~SAK. -The Davcn-
port academy of natural sciences has just published, in an octavo pamphlet of 96
pages and six adinii-able plates, Prof. J. Mc- Neill's Revision of the Truxalinae of North America. It is one of the most important pieces of recent work done on North Aineri- can Orthoptera by American entomologibts; for tlie Tryxillinae have been one of our least known though richest groups. The classifi- * cation is an independent one and does not follow very closely the features of Brunner's general outline for the Tryxalinae of the world given four yenrs ago, and which con- tained a relatively sniall portion of the gen- era here recognized by McNeill. Altogether species are entered, referred to 31 genery., of which 11 are proposcd as new. Only ten new species are described, which is- an liston- ishingly small number for the country; bincc s e e new fnrnis have been foiind in the East within recent years, and a great deal re- mains to be done even here. A full figure, generally with considerable additional detail is given for every gemis, but unfortunately the enlargement above nature L1; not indi- cated. The memoir places our small grass- hoppers on a very different basis from that on which they liave hitherto stood, and the figures alone are a striking addition to our means of study and determination.
A GESL'S UF GRYLLIDAE HITHERTO UNRE-
CORDED FROAl THE UNITED STATES. - I
have recently received from Mrs. Annie
Trumbull Slosson specimens obtained in
southern Florida of a new species of Mogo- siplisi~is, which may be called 24. slo.s.~ovi.- It differs from all known species in its long pronotiini, which is considerably longer than broad, a little broader posteriorly than MI- erioi-I?, tlie lateral canthi rounded, the pos- terior n~argin truncate, straight, the lateral lobes eqnally rounded anteriorly and poste~i- orly; the first joint of the hind tarsi is elnn- gate and inuch more than twice as long as the hind tihial calcaria; the ovipositor as long as the hind tibia and tai-si taken
together. The body is covered with gray
scales. beneath which the thorax is testaceous and the abdomen black; the central portion of the outer face of the hind femora is.also black; nntennae castaneons. Lcngtl; of
body, 2 7.5 mm; ovipositor, 5 mm. Bis-
cayne Bav, Fla.. under bark of trees.
Mrs. Slusson writes that they lire silvery and iridescent in life, and very agile and were found wherever she tore off bark from fallen trees.
The geniis has been heretofore known in
America only from Chili, 'the species from Cape St. Lucas Lower California referred here (Mogoplistcs) by me belonging else- where. Samuel H. Scudder..
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