Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication Volume 68 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...and frequently very plentiful species frequenting the shores of ponds and streams, sloughs, springy runs, etc., from southern New England to Texas and Colorado. (See frontispiece.) At Dardanelle, Arkansas, it was exceedingly abundant in a moist, shallow gully in a cornfield on the sandy bottom-land along the Arkansas River. Three specimens of the short-winged form abortus Hancock were secured at Gulfport, Mississippi, at a spring on the edge of the seabeach. Telmatettix aztecus Saussure. Oklahoma: base of Mt. Sheridan, Wichita Mountains. A single male of this species was taken in the stony bed of a small stream at the foot of the northern talus slope of Mount Sheridan (pl. 8, fig. 2) hidden in the woods. Tettigidea armata Morse. Arkansas: Ola. Indian Territory: Howe. One male and one female were taken with T. lateralis while sweeping in moist bottom-lands. Tettigidea lateralis Say. Georgia: Sand Mountain (juv.). Alabama: Anniston; Lookout Mountain; McCalla; Tuscaloosa; Valley Head. Mississippi: Gulfport; Hattiesburg. Louisiana: Milneburg. Arkansas: Ashdown; Dardanelle; DeQueen; Eagleton; Fayetteville; Magazine Mountain; Mena; Ola; Rich Mountain; Rich Mountain Station; Winslow. Indian Territory: Caddo; Haileyville; Howe; South McAlester; Wewoka; Wilburton. Texas: Bonita; Denison. Tettigidea lateralis polymorpha Burmeister. Arkansas: Ashdown; DeQueen; Mena; Ola. Indian Territory: Howe; South McAlester. This species, with Paratettix cucullatus and Neotettix femoratus, is one of the dominant Tettiginae of the Southern States, occurring in countless numbers in wet bottomlands, along streams, and even at considerable elevations about springs, as on Magazine Mountain, Arkansas. The short-winged examples, usually referred to var. polymorpha, were...