238 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [April, 



of southern specimens, while the coloration is more uniform and 

 much as in the least maculate of the New Jersey specimens. The 

 few specimens before us from Indiana agree perfectly with New 

 Jersey material, but are all of the less maculate type of coloration. 



Occasional small, dark and exceptionally compact females of 

 M . luridus, having abbreviate tegmina, might easily be confused with 

 examples of the same sex of the present species. Examination, 

 however, reveals the fact that the ovipositor jaws in that species are 

 longer, with their narrowed distal portions much longer and less 

 curved. Further examination shows that such examples of M. 

 luridus have larger, more protuberant and darker eyes, a less 

 trim pronotum, heavier limbs and other characters by which they 

 can be distinguished. Typical females of M. luridus are very 

 different, even in superficial appearance, from typical females of the 

 present species. 



The series here recorded was taken in a pine forest on a hillside 

 (Columbia), in a heavy tangle of pine and oak woods undergrowth 

 (Dalton, Warm Springs) and on Currahee Mountain very few were 

 found at the summit (1,700 feet) in the heavy mountain undergrowth 

 of a low forest predominantly black-jack oaks, while in the under- 

 growth of the pine woods at the upper limit of the gradual slopes 

 (1,300 feet) other specimens were taken. 



This insect is known to be an Austral species of localized dis- 

 tribution. It has been recorded from Jamesburg, southward at other 

 localities in the pine barrens of New Jersey; Murphy, North Caro- 

 lina; Denmark and Spartanburg, South Carolina; Blue Ridge, 

 Chickamauga and Sand Mountain, Georgia, and Monticello, Missis- 

 sippi. Further west it is known from numerous counties in north- 

 western Arkansas, and in the upper Mississippi valley region from 

 Gibson County, Indiana, and Havana and Ozark Ridge, Illinois. 



Melanoplus femur-rubrum femur-rubrum (De Geer). 



Virginia. Georgia. 



Fredericksburg, VII, 20, 1913, (R. & Rabun County, VII, 1910, (W. T. 



H.), 1 tf. Davis), 1 <?. 



Orange, VII, 21, 1913, (R. & H.), Clayton, VII, 1910, (W. T. Davis), 1 9 . 



young. Stone Mountain, VIII, 3, 1913, (R. & 



Lynchburg, VII, 22, 1913, (R. & H.), H.), 3^,29,4 juv. a*. 



1 cf. Vicinity of Stone Mountain, VIII, 3, 



1913, (R. & H.), 1 juv. d", 3 juv. 9. 



Immature specimens of the species were found in great numbers 

 at all of the localities in Virginia listed above. The insect is very . 

 abundant everywhere in the upland grass-lands of Virginia, but south 

 of this region it is much less numerous and less generally distributed. 



