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genitalia, somewhat analogous to those found in A pteno pedes s. sphen- 

 arioides and A. s. clara, alone separate the present races. 



The coloration of the caudal tibiae of the present race normally 

 varies from carrot red to flesh color, three specimens in the series 

 before us have the reddish hue nearly obsolete (maize yellow, very 

 faintly suffused with pink dorsad), while a single unusually pale 

 specimen, taken in a weedy field near the strand on Cumberland 

 Island, has the caudal femora pale glaucous (light turtle green), 

 shading to pale chalcedony yellow on the proximal and distal por- 

 tions of the ventral surface. 



The insect has very similar habits to typical jemur-rubrum, being 

 found particularly in grassy and weedy spots in the open. This 

 geographic race is distributed over the southern coastal plain from 

 extreme southern North Carolina, through South Carolina and 

 Georgia, as far west as Flomaton, Alabama, and over entire peninsular 

 Florida, though scarce south of the central portion. 



Melanoplus impiger Scudder. 



Augusta, Georgia, VII, 29, 1913, (R. & H.), 10 tf , 7 9 , 1 juv. d\ 1 juv. 9 . 



This is the first record of the species from east of Texas. The 



specimens here listed have been compared with the type and cotypes 



in the Hebard Collection ex Bruner and found to be identical. In 



size there is considerable individual variation, particularly in the male. 



the extremes from Augusta measuring (in millimeters) as follows: 



Length of 

 Length of Length of Length of caudal 



body. pronotum. tegmen. femur. 



c? 21.5 5.1 20.2 13.6 



'd> 28.3 6.2 22.2 15.8 



9 24.2 5.3 20.8 14.5 



9 26.8 6.1 22.7 16.5 



In coloration the Georgia individuals are less contrastingly colored 

 than Texan specimens, the pale colors being duller ochraceous and 

 the tegmina more fuscous, while the external paginse of the caudal 

 femora generally have the usual bars more or less fused into a blackish 

 fuscous area covering the dorsal section of the pagina. The color of 

 the caudal tibise ranges as dark as dark orient blue in the glaucous 

 condition and as decidedly red as nopal red in the other type. 



The species was found in moderate numbers in a sandy area 

 scatteringly covered with scrub oak. 



Melanoplus oonfusus Scudder. 



Melanoplus minor of authors. 



Fredericksburg, Virginia, VII, 20, 1913, (R. & H.), 5 a\ 2 9 . 

 Havelock, Craven Countv, North Carolina, late V, 1907, and VI, 19-24, 1905. 

 (F. Sherman), 4 d\ 2 9 , [N. C. State Dept. Agr.]. 



