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Mecostehus gracilis (Scudder). 



Twenty-four males, two females. August I, 2, 1905. 



I found these specimens in the same clearing in which I 

 took a series of the species in 1903. Nowhere else was the 

 species to be found. The insects were all fresh and the col- 

 lecting proved that this species does not appear in any num- 

 bers until the beginning of August. 



Canmula pellucida (Scudder). 



This species appears about the -middle of July and is plentiful 

 in grass fields until the advent of cold weather. Twenty-one 

 specimens were taken. 



Dissosteira Carolina (Linnaeus). 



A common species, especially along dusty roads, appearing 

 toward the end of July. Two specimens were taken, July 29, 

 1904. 



Cercotettix verruculatus (Kirby). 



July 1 6, 17, 28, 29, 30, 1904, July 24, 1905. Twenty speci- 

 mens were collected, two of which were immature (July 24, 

 '05, July 28, '04). On any warm sunny day in late July or in 

 August many specimens of this species could be heard "crack- 

 ling" about the lumber yards and town. 



Podisma glacialis canadensis E. M. Walker. 



Four males, three females and one nymph were taken on 

 August 3, 1905. The insects were all taken from hazel bushes 

 which are scattered through high pastures of the L'Anse et 

 Vieux Desert Indian Reservation. The specimens were taken 

 only by constant and vigorous search during the greater part 

 of the day. The species is probably quite scarce at all times. 



Melanoplus islandicus Blatchley. 



July 13, 14, 16, 17, 26, 28, 30, 1904, and July 24, 1905. 

 Thirty-eight males, thirty-nine females, two nymphs (latter 

 both taken July 16). I did not discover the favorite habitat 

 of this species until 1904, which accounts for my considering 

 it very scarce in my note in Mr. Rehn's paper. It was found 

 plentiful in but one spot about Pequaming. This was in a 

 growth of small hardwood trees, where the series were taken 

 in both 1904 and 1905. On the whole I should consider the 



