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Helanoplus bruneri Scudder. 



Three males, one female. July 24 and August I. 2, 1905. 

 This interesting species was found in meadow land in rather 

 scarce numbers. 



Two males and seven females of this species taken about 

 Pequaming on July 22, August I, 3. 5, 6, 21 and 31, 1903, 

 were inadvertently placed under 717. atlanis by Mr. Rehn in his 

 article in the Entomological News of October, 1904, the other 

 specimens recorded being true Melanoplus atlanis. This is the 

 first record of this species from Michigan, and the second 

 record of the species from east of Minnesota, the other record 

 being from the Muskoka Lake region, Ontario. 



The females may be readily separated from males of Melan- 

 oplits atlanis by their more robust and less attenuate shape and 

 wider and more abbreviated tequima. The single female cap- 

 tured on July 22 had but recently become adult, and the con- 

 dition of the other specimens indicates that the species probably 

 does not appear in its full strength until the beginning of 

 August. 



Melanoplus femoratns (Burmeister). 



July 16, 25, 28, 1904, and August I, 2, 1905. Seven males, 

 three females. All of the specimens were taken in meadow 

 lands where the species were abundant, as well as among the 

 "brakes" on the edge of the forest. 



Xiphidion fasciatum (DeGeer). 



One male, one female, one nymph, taken on August i. 1905. 

 Plentiful in marshy places in the woods and fields. 



Centhophilus terrestris Scudder. 



July 14, 16 and 17, 1904. Taken under the same stones in the 

 Indian war-dance ground where I took ten specimens in 1903. 

 Thirty-four specimens of this species were collected. One 

 specimen, taken on July 17, was captured in the act of moulting 

 to the full imago, while another, taken on July 14, is seen to be 

 freshly transformed from the last pupal stage, and has not 

 taken the full coloring. Nowhere else was this species to be 

 found, although diligent search was made. 



July 28, 1904. One male of this abundant species was cap- 

 tured in a swampy situation. 



