•'^4 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOME INDIANA ACRIDID^.. — IV. 



BY W. S. BLATCHLEY, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



Since the publication of the third paper of this series in the 

 Canadian Entomologist for August and September, 1894, my time has 

 been so fully occupied with other duties that 'but little opportunity has 

 been presented for the collection and study of Indiana Orthoptera. Notes 

 have been made and specimens taken only of such species as came 

 readily to hand during field work in geology. A better knowledge of the 

 distribution over the State of many of the Acrididae has, however, been 

 gained, and seven species and one variety have been added to the number 

 formerly listed, and to my private collection. Of these, one species and 

 variety have been described as new by Prof. A. P. Morse, a second is 

 described for the first time in the present paper, and a third has before 

 been taken only in Montana and Nebraska. 



The publication of McNeill's " Truxalinte of North America" and 

 of Scudder's " Revision of the Melanopli," especially the latter, has made 

 necessary a number of changes in the synonymy of the species previously 

 accredited to the State. A new list of all Acrididse mentioned in this 

 and the former papers, with their present nomenclature, is, therefore, 

 appended. It is to be hoped that the papers as published have added 

 something of value to the knowledge of the habits and geographical dis- 

 tribution of this interesting group of insects. 



ACRIDID.E. 



Truxalin^. 



I. Orphula pelidna (Burm).* The Spotted-winged Grasshopper. 



Gomphocerus pelidims Burm., Handbuch II., 1838, 650. 



Stenobothrus pelidims Thos., Syn. Acrid., 1873, 95. 



Orphula pelidna Rev. Trux., N. A, 1897, 235. 



Stenobothrus maculipennis Scudd., Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., VII., 

 1862, 458, 



Orphula maailipetinis Morse, Psyche, VII., 1S96, 326. 



Stenobothrus propinquans Scudd., Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., VII., 

 1862, 461. 



This species has bsen described or mentioned under the above 

 names by many different persons, and no attempt is made to give a cora- 



*When the author of a species referred it to a different genus from that to which it 

 is now recognized as belonging, his name is enclosed in a parenthesis. 



