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leg In living specimens this line is bordered above by one of dark Ijrown. When the 

 insect is dried the brown fades and the tips of legmina become darker. Length of body 

 to tip of tegmina, male, 30 mm.; female, 37 mm,, of antennns, male, 8 mm.; female, 

 6 mm.; of tegmina, male, 20 mm., female, 26 mm.; of posterior femora, male, 14 

 mm., female, 17.5 mm. 



OEDIPODINI. 



2. Spharagemon bolli, Scudder. 



Spharagemon bolli, Scudd., Proceed. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII., 



1875, 469. 

 McNeill, "Orthop. of 111.," Psyche, VI., 1891, 

 64. 

 Dissosteira bolli, Fern., Orth. of N. Eng., 1888, 43. 

 This species is much less common than S. balteatum, Scudd., but 

 three specimens having been secured. It may be readily known from 

 balteatum by the higher crest of the pronotum, by the general colour 

 being darker, the bands across the tegmina more distinct, and by having 

 the tip of wing as black as the median arcuate band. It frequents high, 

 dry woods, and moves with a quick, almost noiseless flight, but is clumsy 

 as a hopper. 



Sept. ist, Oct. 17th, in copulation. 



ACRIDINI. 



3. Melanoplus griseus, Thomas. 



Caloptenus griseus, Thos., Geol. Surv. Terr., 187 1, 454. 



Id., Syn. Acrid. N. A., 1873, 165. 



A single ^ of this handsome Mela?ioplus was taken in Putnam 

 County, on August 25th. It hopped across a roadway in the woods in 

 company with numerous specimens of M. femur-rubrutn, and was at 

 once detected on account of its peculiar coloration. 



On October 17th, a $ and % were taken from near the base of trees 

 in a high woodland pasture in Vigo County, and again on November 15 th 

 a single female was found in a similar locality. 



These four are all that I have ever seen. No one of them took to 

 flight, and their movem-^nts on the ground were exceedingly clumsy, they 

 being easily captured with the hand. As Thomas, loc. cit., described the 

 species from a single 9 taken in Ohio, and as I can find no reference to 

 the species other than those cited above, I add the following description of 

 the ^ , drawn from a fresh specimen, together with accurate measure- 

 ments of both sexes. 



