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296 PSYCHE. [December 1898.
Canaan, Ct.
It has been reported to
me f tom West Woodstock, Ct., (Beuten-
miUler), and is recorded from Maine
and New Hampshire by Scudder.
2 6. PAROXYA Scudd.
Paroxya Scudder 1877. Proc. Boston
Soc. Nat. Hist., XIX, pp. 28-29.
46. Paroxya floridana. Thorn.
Caloptenusftoridianzts. Thomas, Bull.
U. S. Geol. Surv, Ten., I, No. 2., p. 68, (1874).
. faroxyo at/am!ica. Fernald, Orth.
N. E., 34; Morse, List, 105 ; also
Psyche, (1893), 401 ; Beutenmiiller,
Orth. N. Y., 305.
Paroxyafloridana. Scudder, Rev. Mel-
anopli, 383; Sprague, Psyche (1896) 439. Measuren~ents from 82 8, 58 ; -
Antenna: 8, 13-15; 9, 8.5-11. H.
fern.: 8, 12-13.5 ; 9, 15.3-18.7. Teg. : 8, 13-16; 9, 14-5-20. Body: 8,
20-25 ; 9, 26-36. The hind femora
' usually pass the tegmina by. I or z mm. in the male and 2 or 3 in the female,
The only variation of note is the
occurrence of a striking rnelanistic form, at least in the male, several examples of which I secured at Faneuil, Mass., some
years ago.
This is a relatively slender-bodied
locust of medium size and graceful and
elegant appearance which should be
readily recognized when captured. It
occurs locally in swamps and marshes
in southern New England, where I have
taken it on cord-grass (Spartina) grow-
ing in the tide-water ditches of salt
meadows and in the long sedge of
bushy inland meadows and swamps. It
is usually numerous but not abundant
where found. While active and alert it
is readily captured owing to its habit of trying to escape observation by getting
out of sight behind the stouter stems of grass and weeds rather than by flight,
to which it resorts only when alarmed.
It leaps well and quickly, but its flight is comparatively short.
In New England it has been taken
from July 22 to Aug. 30 at Cambridge,
Fansuil, Newtonville, and Walpole,
Mass. ; Deep River, North Haven,
Niantic, and Stamford, Ct. Immature
specimens were plentiful at Faneuil on
the earlier date.
ENTOMOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS. - Ml'. R.
E. Snodgrass, assistant in entomology in Le- land Stanford Jr University, sailed from San Francisco on Nov. for the Galapagos
Islands. Mr. Snodgrass will spend six
months on the islands collecting insects and other animals for the entomological and
zo5logical departments of the University. Mr. Snodgrass is accompanied by Mr. Ed-
mund Heller, student in- the department of zoology of Leland Stanford Jr University. . C. F. Baker left Auburn, Ah., on Nov. xst, 1898. He has gone on a two years' leave of absence from the Polytechnic Institute, as field botanist to the Herbert H. Smith ex- ploringexpedition, which will be engaged in .
biological work in northwestern South
America. All letters and packages for him should be addressed to St. Croix Falls, Polk Co., Wisconsin.




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