78 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



9 (a). Arphia xanthoptera carinata, Scudd. 



Totnonotus car hiatus, Thos., Syn. Acrid., N. A., 1873, 106. 



Tomonotus siilphtireus car hiatus, Id., Ninth Rep. St. Ent. 111., 1880, 

 108. 

 Six or eight specimens of a grasshopper, which, from the descriptions 

 cited above, I take to be the one described by Scudder as CEdipoda 

 carhiata, were taken. It is, as Dr. Thomas says, very closely allied to 

 xanthoptera, but is always darker, the colour approaching a black ; the 

 inner wings are deep reddish yellow, and the median carina of the prono- 

 tum higher than in that species. Moreover, the stridulation of the male 

 is different, as it can be heard for rods away, the loud chr-r-r-r-r being 

 sounded just as it leaves the ground, and not while on the wing, as is that 

 of xaJithoptera. These differences, however, are so minor that I follow 

 Thomas in placing it as a variety of that species. 



10. Spharagemon balteatum, Scudd. 



Spharagemoji balteatum, Scudder, Proceed. Bost Soc. Nat. Hist., 



XVII., 1875, 469- 

 A rare species found in dry, open, upland woods. Four specimens 

 were taken Oct. 12, two in copulation. It is not included in either of 

 Dr. Thomas's Illinois lists, and although it ranges from Maine to Texas, 

 has not before been recorded closer than New Jersey on the east and 

 Kansas on the west. 



11. DissosTEiRA CAROLINA, Linn. The Black-winged Grasshopper. 

 Locusta Carolina. Harris, Ins. Inj., 1862, 176, pi. III., fig. 3. 

 CEaipoda Carolina, Thomas, Syn. Acrid. N. A., 1873, 117. 



Id., Ninth Rep. St. Ent., 111., 1880, iii. 

 This common species is readily known by its broad, black, yellow- 

 bordered hind wings, and by its habit of flying rather than hopping when 

 disturbed \ many persons taking it for a butterfly when it is on the wing. 

 It is more often found along roadsides and railways than in meadows and 

 pastures. 



12. Hippiscus RUGOSUS, Scudd. The Clumsy Grasshopper. 



CEdipoda rugosa, Thos., Syn. Acrid. N. A., 1873, 132. 



Hippiscus, corallipes rugosa. Id., Ninth Rep. St. Ent., 111., 1880, 



115- 



This large, thick-bodied species is rather common in autumn, its 



favorite resorts being timothy stubble or open, upland pastures. When 



