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OUR GREENHOUSE ORTHOPTERA.
THE following ins~ances of Orthoptera not native to the spot occurring in our green- houses are the only ones that have come to my knowledge. The first is a Copiophora
(described as a new species by Thomas)
which was found in the greenhouse of the Agricultural department fit Washington.
Another is a species of Bliastes, a single specimen of which did great damage a Tear or twoago in the orchid house of the Miss- ouri botanic garden at St. Louis, before it was found. Both these genera of Locusta- rians are strangers to the United States, belonging in tropical America ; they were undoubtedly introduced with imported
plants. The third case is Ajitkes izgitatrif Uhler, one of our southern crickets ranging as far north as Baltimore, which has been found in sill stages of development in green- houses of the Cambridge botanic garden by Mr. J. W. Folsom; it seems to have done no material damage. Scimuel J-I, Sctielder. SOME CORRECTIONS IN GENERTC
NAMES IN ORTHOPTERA.
IT unfortunately appears that several of the names proposed for new genera in my recent paper on Truxalinae ;we preoccupied. I,
therefore, propose for these names the fol- lowing substitutes :
Oreina in the key is simply a typographi- cal error, it is written Opeia on pp. 214-211; and in the explanation of plate 11.
Pnigoties may be Eufnigodes.
E,remiina may be Agmeoiettix.
Piectrvphovna may be Pltctrotettix.
Brnnneria may be h e r i a as the genus
was intended to be named in honor of Law rence Bruner and was spelled Brunneria. by the printer who could not be made to under- stand that there could be two names so sim- ilar as Brunner and Bruner, and !is I could not see a eecond proof. I could not tell whether corrections indicated were made or not. - Jerome Weill.
AULOCARA AND AGEYiROTETTIX.
IN a short paper just published (Can. ent., xxix, 75) I have given Ageneotettix (Erein- nus McNeill) as one of the synonyms of
Aulocara Scudder. In this I vms mistaken. The former differs from Aulocara in that the prozonal carina is entire, instead of being cut by the transverse sulci; in having the lateral foveolae of the male rhomboidal and snbequal in width instead of triangular; and in llie much greater inequality in length of the inner apical spurs of the hind tibiae, which latter are also red instead of blue, Aulocara has a number of species, some not yet described ; Ageneoletlix extends from Indiana to Dakota in the north and south to Texas and if the forms all belong to one species it is exceedingly varied in size and mat-kings. Aulocara extends south to
northern Mexico.
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