22 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I have a single female of the short-winged form of this grasshopper, 

 collected by Mr. G. M. Stewart in a muskeg ten miles west of the portage 

 between Lake Kabinakagami and the Matawishguia River. 



At the same spot Mr. Stewart also took two males of M. islandicus, 

 Blatchley, an adult and a nymph. These three specimens are dated Aug. 

 18, 1900. On the portage between Lakes Esnogami and Kabinakagami 

 two mature females of M. islandicus were taken, July 15, 1900. 



29a. Melanoplus bivittatus, Say. 



Gryllus bivittatus, Say. Tourn. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., IV., 308 

 (1825). 



Caloptenus bivittatus, Uhler (pars), Say. Ent. N. A., ed LeC, II., 

 238 (1859). 



Melanoplus bivittatus, Scudd. (pars), Hitchc. Rep. Geol. N. H., 

 1, 37 6 (1874). 



I took a single $ of this grasshopper while collecting at North Bay, 

 on Sept. 12, 1900. This is the true bivittatus, not the common species 

 with red hind tibiae, usually so-called, which is M.femoratus, Burm. The 

 hind tibia? of my specimen are dark bluish-green above at base, gradually 

 passing into pale greenish-yellow at apex. 



Although I spent some six hours collecting at North Bay, and 

 searched carefully for both M. bivittatus and M. femoratus, I obtained 

 but one specimen of each, both females. I expected to find femoratus 

 common, as it is abundant in Muskoka, and has been taken as far north 

 as Hudson's Bay. 



M. bivittatus is an interior and Western form, so that its occurrence 

 in Northern Ontario is of some interest. 



Melafioplus punctulatus, Uhler. — During the last two seasons I have 

 found this insect quite plentiful locally, though I spoke of it in a former 

 paper (Can. Ent., XXXI, 35) as one of our rarest Acridians. Until then 

 I had never seen the male, but in the season of 1899 I found about a 

 dozen of them, and this season I have seen more than one hundred. I 

 found them most numerous on dead stumps and logs, in a wood of second- 

 growth white Dine, at De Grassi Pt, Ont. They were sometimes seen 

 on the trunks and branches of living trees, but most often on the stumps 

 and fallen trunks of the oid forest, and on the pine rails of a snake fence 

 enclosing the wood. They were found only on the borders and more open 

 parts of the woods, where they were to be seen upon almost every stump. 

 I have seen ten Jsona single stump. It is in these dead stumps and 

 logs that the females deposit their eggs, in which operation I have 



