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THE SPECIES OF ANABRUS AXD
THEIR DISTRIBUTION.
FROM an examination of over two hundred
specimens of Anabrus from different parts of the west, there appear to be four species in the United States. The first described was (I) A. simplex Hald. [Stansb. Expl. Utiiti,372, pi. 10, fig. 4) which was first recorded from Salt Lake and is found over the interior pi%- tea11 west of the Rocky Mts., and north of southern Utah to the Sierras and, beyond them, in northern California, Oregon and Washington. The figures of the species
given by Glover (Illustr., pi. 9, fig. i, pi. 14, fig. 5), Thomas (Hayden's Fifth Ann. Rep., pi. I, fig. I), and Packard (Second Rep. Ent. Comm., 164) belong here, and this is prob- ably the case also with the figures of Hcr- man (Verh. zool.-hot. ges. Wien, 24: pl. 6, figs. 76-86), which I formerly doubted (Rep. Chief. eng., 1876, 500).
The second species described was (2) A.
fztrf~~rascvns Uhf. (Proc. Ent. soc. Phil., 2 : 550)) a name which must be restricted to the species found cast of the Rocky Mts., from Montana, Dakota and Manitoba over the
prairies and plains as far as Kansas. The type specimens (in my collection) come
from Red River, Manitoba, and the speci- mens mentioned by Uhler from Texas and
Washington probably belonged to other
species. A. sa'nzilis Scudd. (Hayd. Rep. Nebr., 249) is a sjnonym of this.. The fig- ures given by Glover
(Illustr., pi. 17, figs.
so, 11) belong here, but that by Packard (Second Rep. Ent. Comm., 163) belongs to the next species.
This is (3) A. coloradns Thorn. (Haydcn's Fifth Ann. Rep., 4401, redescribed in part by me (Rep. Chief Eng.. 1876, joo), a mountain and alpine form, found mostly in Colorado but also extending south to Xew Mexico and Texas, unless the specimens from the latter state (of which I have hut few, in poor con- dition) belong to A. 'fiurpwrrrsce~s. As stated above, this species: is figured by Packard under the name A. puq%zwascefis.
A (4) fourth undescribed species in my
collection, from Texas, is readily distin- guiihed from the others by its much slenderer and relatively longer legs. The other species referred at difiwent times to Anahrus do not belong here (See Can, Ent., 26: 180-81.
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