FURTHER RESEARCHES ON NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIID^. 47 



Melanoplus bivittatus Say. 



Indian Territory: Caddo ; Wilburton. 



Texas: Denison. 



Oklahoma: Cache; base of Mount Sheridan; Snyder. 



Common locally in the herbage of moist meadows, about springs, 

 along ditches and streams. 



Melanoplus bivittatus femoratus Burmeister. 



Georgia: Sand Mountain. 

 Alabama: Cheaha Mountain. 



The specimens secured are markedly different in color from north- 

 ern examples ; the olivaceous tinge so common in northern specimens 

 is entirely lacking ; the general coloration is a brownish fuscous 

 above, luteous beneath. The hind tibiae are red, more or less some- 

 times strongly infuscated on the basal half; and the hind femora show 

 the strong fuscous longitudinal stripe of the glaucous -legged form. 



Melanoplus differentials uhler. 



Louisiana: Franklin. 



Arkansas: Fayetteville. 



Indian Territory: Caddo; Howe. 



Texas: Amarillo ; Clarendon; Denison; Quanah ; Wichita Falls. 



Oklahoma: Cache; Mountain Park; Shawnee; base of Mount Sheridan. 



Locally common, often abundant and destructive, among coarse 

 grasses and weeds in waste places. Very widely but erratically 

 distributed. 



Melanoplus discolor Scudder. 

 Texas: Amarillo. 

 Three males and two females among tall grasses on the plains. 



Melanoplus fasciatus Barnston-Walker. 

 Alabama: Cheaha Mountain. 



A single male of this boreal species was captured among the xero- 

 phytic vegetation on the summit of this, the highest mountain in Ala- 

 bama. In this specimen the fuscous fascise of the hind femora are 

 nearly obsolete. This capture extends its range southward from New 

 Jersey, where it is common in cranberry bogs. A comparison of one 

 of McNeill's types of M. baconi in the Scudder collection demonstrates 

 its identity with this species. 



Melanoplus femur-rubrum DeGeer. 



Arkansas: Dardanelles Fayetteville; Magazine Mountain; Ola; Rich Moun- 

 tain ; Van Buren : Winslow. 



Indian Territory: Haileyville; Howe; South McAlester; Wilburton. 

 Texas: Amarillo; Clarendon; Quanah. 

 Oklahoma: Shawnee. 



