1916.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 241 



We find that Caloptenus minor of Scudder 93 {Melanoplus minor of 

 authors) is preoccupied by Caloptenus minor of Walker. 94 Seudder's 

 Melanoplus confusus, 95 described from Munson's Hill and New-port, 

 Kentucky, is, however, the same as his minor and the name 1 must be 

 used for the present species. Caudell, finding that Scudder's name 

 minor was preoccupied, but misquoting the original generic position 

 as Pezotettix, has recently proposed the name Melanoplus mutatus 96 

 for the present species; this name naturally falls in the synonymy 

 under Melanoplus confusus. 



The specimens from the latter locality listed above were kindly 

 loaned to us by Mr. Sherman, in response to our request to see 

 some of the material on which the record of this species from eastern 

 North Carolina was based. 97 These individuals are perfectly typical 

 of confusus, and Havelock is the most southern locality in the east 

 from which the species has been reported. 



At Fredericksburg the species was found in short grass on rather 

 barren hillsides bordering the valley of the Rappahannock on the south. 



Melanoplus luridus luridus (Dodge). 



Black Mountain, North Carolina, VIII, 7, 1912. (W. Beutenmuller), 1 <?, 



[Davis CSn.]. 

 Pinnacle Peak, Rabun County, Georgia, VIII, 20, 1913, (J. C. Bradley), 1 d\ 



3 9", 1 juv. a", 1 iuv. 9. 

 Tuckoluge Creek, Rabun County, Ga., VII, 1910, (W. T. Davis), 1 juv. 9 . 



The present insect is widely distributed over the northern United 

 States, extending in southward distribution along the Atlantic 

 coast at least as far as southern New Jersey. In the Appalachians, 

 however, the distribution of the insect is carried southward at con- 

 siderable altitudes to the most southern portion of these mountains, 

 as the material recorded above demonstrates. In size and robustness 

 the present individuals are much as in the average of material before 

 us from Connecticut. The junior author's record of M. deletor from 

 that State 98 applies wholly to the present insect, as do the senior 

 author's records of M. keeleri from New Jersey. 99 Both of these 



93 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII, p. 478, (1875). 

 ™Cat. Dermapt. Saltat. Br. Mas., IV, p. 699, (1870). 



nProc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XX, p. 339, pi. XXII, fig. 10, (1898). We have 

 examined the male lectotype of confusus from Munson's Hill, Kentucky, and 

 find no valid character to separate it from minor of Scudder. The lectotype 

 and other material has shrivelled from immersion in alcohol and as a result, we 

 have differences in the form of the cerei due solely to distortion. 



96 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLIX, p. 30, (1915). 



97 Sherman and Brimlev. Ent. News, XXII, p. 389, (1911). 

 ™En(. News, XXI, p. 184, (1910). 



J ' Rehn in Smith. Ins. of New Jersey, p. 1S4, (1910). 



