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and with a curved black streak on each side of the dorsal part of 

 the head, reaching from the first thoracic segment nearly half the 

 head length. Either side of the mouth is a short, black curved 

 line. Both true and prolegs body colour. No hump. 



June 9th — ^The larva died this morning, two months from 

 hatching. The larval life of this species is either unusually long 

 or pecan is not its proper food plant. A number of the hickory 

 feeders are of slow growth. 



NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF ORTHOPTERA FROM 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND AND THE 



MAGDALEN ISLANDS, QUE. 



BY E. M. WALKER, TORONTO. 



Through the kindness of Mr. James A. G. Rehn, of Phila- 

 delphia, I had the privilege recently of examining a small collection 

 of Orthoptera taken by Mr. Bayard Long on Prince Edward 

 Island, the Magdalen Islands, and certain other localities in 

 Eastern Quebec and New Brunswick. The specimens from Prince 

 Edward Island and New Brunswick were collected during the 

 summer of 1912, those from the other Quebec localities during 

 1910. 



The collection is of interest mainly on account of the localities. 

 Prince Edward Island and the Magdalens having been hitherto 

 quite unknown from an orthopterological standpoint. Only ,14 

 species are represented among the 256 specimens in the collection, 

 and although this small number is probably far short of the total 

 number of species that inhabit these regions, it is doubtless in- 

 dicative of a restricted boreal fauna, all of the species being well- 

 known inhabitants of the Canadian Zone and most of thern of 

 wide distribution in the latter. 



The most interesting features of the collection are the occur- 

 rence of an extremely large form of MelanopUis extremiis Walk, 

 in the Magdalen Islands and of the typical race of Podisma glacialis 

 Scudd. in Prince Edward Island and Quebec, this race not having 

 been definitely recorded before from Canada, though from its 

 occurrence in Northern New England it was to be expected here. 



