Sept., '04] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 22Q 



Notes on the Orthoptera of the Keweenaw Bay 



Region of Baraga County r Michigan. 



BY JAMES A. G. REHN. 



During the summer of 1903 Mr. Morgan Hebard, of Chest- 

 nut Hill, Philadelphia, spent considerable time collecting Or- 

 thoptera in the vicinity of Pequaming, Baraga County, Mich- 

 igan. On his return, Mr. Hebard very kindly turned his 

 entire season's work over to me for determination, and also 

 presented the Academy of Natural Sciences with a very rep- 

 resentative series. 



As the northern peninsula of Michigan has figured little in 

 entomological, literature, Mr. Hebard has, at my suggestion, 

 prepared a preliminary account of the region from which the 

 collections were made, thus forming a basis for future remarks 

 on the region. Groups of insects other than the Orthoptera 

 were by no means neglected by Mr. Hebard, and it is to be 

 hoped that reports on the other orders may soon appear. Mr. 

 Hebard' s notes are all given in quotation marks, and all state- 

 ments thus designated should be credited to him. 



" Pequaming, Baraga County, Michigan, is a small lumber 

 town situated on a point of land w r hich juts out into Kewee- 

 naw Bay, nine miles from its head. It is about twenty miles 

 distant from the famous Upper Peninsula copper country, 

 most of which lies to the north on Keweenaw Point. The 

 town is on the southern shore of Pequaquawaming Point, and 

 is therefore protected from the tremendous northeasterly gales 

 which, at this point, have a clear sweep across Lake Superior 

 of over one hundred and forty miles. 



" Pequaquawaming Point is almost oval in shape (the In- 

 dian name signifying ' wooded oval ' ) and is parallel to the 

 mainland, from which it is separated by an open marsh three- 

 quarters of a mile wide by one and one-half miles long. This 

 marsh is in most places an open meadow of tall marsh grass 

 dotted with tamaracks ; but along the edges these tamaracks 

 form a dense growth intermingled with white cedars. Wherevc-r 

 there are tamaracks it is safe to venture ; for, although one 

 sinks ;i foot or so at every step into the sphagnum, cranberry, 



