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Melanoplns bivittatus (Say). 



Rudy. July 19 (Skinner). One female. Radisson. 

 July 30 (Skinner). Two males, two females. This species 

 has been recorded from Medicine Hat, Alberta. 



TETTIGONIDAE. 

 Cyphoderris monstrosa Uhler. 



Saskatchewan River, below junction of North Fork, Alberta. 

 -June 18, 1908 (Brown). One male. The only previous 

 Canadian records of this species were from Banff, Alberta, and 

 Ainsworth and Peachland, British Columbia. The present rec- 

 ord is the most northern for the genus. 



A Note on Emesa longipes. 

 By H. F. WICKHAM, Iowa City, Iowa. 



(Plate IV) 



Last year, I found occasion to make a few notes on the life 

 history of the thread-legged bug,' :: and since the season just 

 past has offered opportunities for some additional observa- 

 tions, they are brought together in this article as a contribution 

 to the knowledge of the habits of a most unusual insect. 



In my back yard was an old shed of considerable size, used 

 long ago to shelter two or three cows. This shed was of rather 

 loose construction, open more or less to the weather, with a 

 dilapidated loft partly filled with lumber of various sorts and 

 thoroughly dusty rarely disturbed and thickly tenanted by 

 spiders, wasps and such fry. The lower story was used prin- 

 cipally to hold pieces of boards, old furniture and the like, 

 while one compartment did duty through the winter as a coal 

 bin. Trees of apple and elm shaded this ancient fabric, whose 

 dusty rafters and web-hung walls afforded to many thread- 

 legged bugs the quiet shelter that they seemed to enjoy. 



Anticipating a threatened collapse of the structure I decided 

 to tear it down, and in June began the task of dismantling it 



*Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XXII, March, 1909, p. 255. 



