264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Oct., '04 



Podisma glacialis canadensis E. M. Walker. 



Six specimens ; two males, four females. L'Anse et Vieux 

 Desert Reservation, August 20, .31 ; September 4 and 5 

 (swamp, in thicket, on hazel bush). 



' While beating some bushes in a ditch, on August 3ist, I 

 took two specimens of this species ; returning to the same 

 place the following week, I succeeded, with some difficulty, 

 in taking a few more. They seemed to be in this locality 

 only, and were there restricted to certain bushes. Besides 

 those I took from the ditch, I took one specimen from a clump 

 of raspberry vines ; all the rest were beaten from clumps of 

 hazel bushes, which are scattered through the high pastures. 

 I beat each bush heavily, and in this way probably took a 

 good share of the specimens stirring so late in the season. I 

 took but one specimen without the net ; this was a large 

 female which I espied sunning itself on one of the topmost 

 leaves of a hazel bush. It clasped itself tightly to the leaf, 

 with the hind legs drawn down closely to the body and the 

 antennae held motionless. In this posture it was so well pro- 

 tected that I would never have seen it had I not picked a 

 Melanoplus off a neighboring leaf, and, in so doing, almost 

 touched it, causing it to move slightly. I took it in my hand, 

 but hardly any effort was made to escape, and it clung firmly to 

 my finger, and when touched shrank sideways in a peculiar 

 manner. Owing to the fact that I did not beat the bushes in 

 this vicinity before August 3ist, it seems probable that Podisma 

 had been there in perhaps greater numbers than I found it, 

 for all other forms of Orthoptera appeared long before this date. 



' Coloration of . All the colors and markings were very 

 bright ; deep emerald green appearing almost translucent, 

 back purplish brown with a median chain of cream-colored 

 marks. 



' The males are active junipers, easily springing from one 

 part of the bush to another. They were quickly on the alert, 

 but trusting to their very protective coloration they would not 

 not jump till almost touched by the net. 



'General color of 9. Clear dull grass green, the exact 

 shade of the cloth of a billiard table." 



