March, Yx)1 KXTOMOT.OCTCAL NEWS. 



Scudcler in his revision of the Melanopli (p. 64) mentions 

 material from "New Jersey," and until the year 1908 all our 

 knowledge of the species from New Jersey as found in the lit- 

 erature is given above. In 1891 to '96, Morse had taken it at 

 Wellesley, Massachusetts, in numbers and it was also recorded 

 by him from Walpole, Massachusetts, while Scudder assigned 

 material collected in Georgia by Morrison to the species. In 

 the years 1904 and 1907, Morse recorded specimens from Sand 

 Mountain, Georgia and Cheaha and Lookout Mountain and 

 Tnrnipseed's Ranch, Alabama. In Massachusetts the insect 

 frequented tufts of bunch-grass and was taken between July 

 10 and August 30, the first date, however, nymphs alone were 

 taken. At Sand Mountain, Georgia, Morse took it from bunch- 

 grass in open deciduous woods. 



Along with other material placed in my hands for determina- 

 tion during 1908 by Prof. John B. Smith was a single female 

 of this beautiful species taken at Anglesea, New Jersey, Sep- 

 tember 6. Quite recently Mr. W. T. Davis, of New Brighton, 

 Staten Island, sent me for examination a specimen taken at 

 Lakehurst, Ocean County, New Jersey, on August 17, 1907. 

 While collecting at Stafford's Forge, Ocean County, New Jer- 

 sey, during the past summer, the writer collected four males 

 and five females of this species on August 12 and September 5. 

 The individuals were found to be extremely local, occurring 

 only in a small area of huckleberry and sweet fern barrens on 

 the edge of pine forest and close to a large cranberry bog. The 

 latter fact has no significance to me as the barren they preferr- 

 ed is extremely dry and without any bracken, sphagnum or 

 "branch" plants, and the proximity of the bog appears to be but 

 a coincidence. During a number of days' stay the bog and 

 surrounding pine-land were repeatedly examined and the 

 huckleberry and sweet fern section was the only area in which 

 the species w r as found. 



A single male of the species taken by Dr. Harry Fox, Sep- 

 tember 7, 1908, between Mt. Pleasant and Formosa Bogs, Cape 

 May County, New Jersey, has also been examined. It was 

 captured in oak and pine woods. 



