April, '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 157 



species scarce and very local in distribution, since three years' 

 collecting in the woods about Pequaming failed to reveal but 

 this one colony of the species, although two specimens were 

 taken in a nearby meadow. The series is rather uniform in 

 size, and such variation in color as exists consists chiefly in the 

 replacing of vinaceous browns by darker tones. 



Melanoplus huroni Blatchley. 



One male of this species was captured in the woods on 

 August i, 1905, in the vicinity of the spot where M . islandicus 

 was found plentiful. This species is easily the scarcest of the 

 Mclanopli I have collected about Pequaming. 



Melanoplus extremus (Walker). 



July 13, 16, 17, 28, 29, 1904, August i, J, 3, 11)05. 



Ten males, sixteen females. One male and one female belong 

 to the long-winged type (scandcns Scudder), while several 

 other have the tegmina but little shorter. The specimens were 

 taken in meadows, woods and swampy situations. 



Skanee, Michigan, July 22, 26, 1904. 



Five males and four females were taken in a clearing over- 

 grown with rank grass, two miles in the woods. 



The species was never found in numbers excepting in the 

 last mentioned locality, and may be said to be a scarce species. 

 It was found always to prefer damp meadows where grass \\ a< 

 luxuriant and deep. The small number of specimens taken in 

 1903 is to be accounted for by the fact that I believed the 

 species to prefer the upland clearings, and did not search for 

 it in the lower meadow portions. 



Melanoplus fasciatus (Walker). 



July 16, 17, 30, 1904, July 24, August T, 3, 1905. Five 

 males, five females. One male (July 17, '04) and one female' 

 (July 24, '05) belong to the long-winged type (rolaticns Scud- 

 der), while one female (July 30, '04) has much longer wings 

 than the usual type. Half of the specimens arc of a brownish 

 cast, the others overclouded with blackish. The species was 

 never found except singly, and was taken in most cases in the 

 open, but also in meadow land and nearby situations. 



