1914.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 447 



curvicauda, S. furcata, Avihlycorypha oblongifolia, A. rotundifolia, 

 Conocephalus triops, Orchelimum vulgare, Xiphidium fasdatum, 

 X. brevipenne, and Atlanticus dorsalis. 



Some Appalachian Orthoptera are as yet unrecorded for the 

 Piedmont Region, but recur in the Coastal Plain. Among these are 

 Mecostethus lineatus, Melanoplus fasciatus, M. pundulatus, Scudderia 

 pistillata, S. septentrionalis, and Conocephalus ensigner. 



No extensive studies of Appalachian Orthopteran habitats have 

 been made, so far as I am aware. Spharagemon saxatile is a saxicolous 

 form and in the New Jersey list is stated to occur on rocky ridges. 

 Doubtless its habitat in this region is like that described by Morse 

 for New England and the Southern States. Podisma variegata 

 appears from data recorded by Rehn^ to be constantly associated 

 with hemlock woods, occurring, according to one observer, Mr. Behr, 

 on the branches of the trees, but according to W. S. Huntington 

 occasionally in grass. 



II. The Highlands. 



As already mentioned, I am not inclined to regard the Highlands 

 as of primary faunistic rank, but rather as a sort of tension area 

 where the typical Piedmont fauna meets and intermingles with 

 outlying representatives of the Appalachian fauna. The data from 

 the region are unfortunately very meagre and are almost entirely 

 restricted to the New Jersey section, the Pennsylvania Highlands 

 being unrepresented in any of the publications or collections examined 

 by me. 



The topography of the Highlands is essentially that of the Appa- 

 lachian Region, but the ridges are lower and have less precipitous 

 slopes. The soils are of residual origin and are of the same character 

 as the typical Piedmont soils. 



The grasshopper fauna of the Highlands has never been fully 

 described, but it will probably be found to include the following 

 forms : 



Orphulella speciosa (a)^ Chloealtis conspersa (a) 



Dichromorpha viridis (6) Stenobothrus curtipennis (a) 



8 Entom. News, XI, 1900, p. 680. 



» (a) Recorded from Highland localities in New Jersey Report. 

 (5) Reported as occurring throughout the State in the same report. 



