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plete synonymy. That given by McNeill, loc. cit., is faulty and mis- 

 leading to beginners, in that the name Gomphocerus is wrongly used for 

 Stenobothrus in a number of the references. 



Although it is said to occur in abundance in the United States east 

 of the Rocky Mountains, I did not meet with this species in Indiana 

 during ten years collecting until the 27th of last July, when I found it in 

 abundance about the margins of a small lake in one of the valleys 

 among the sand dunes of Lake County. 



It uses both the wings and legs in flight, and when close pressed 

 often burrows into the fallen grass in an attempt to escape detection. Of 

 twenty-one specimens taken but three were females, and they were of the 

 green variety. Five of the males were also partly green, the remainder 

 being brown and fuscous. 

 2. Mecostethus lineatus (Scudder.) 



Arcyptera lineata Scudd., BDst. Jour. Nat. Hist., VII., 1862, 462. 



Id., Am. Nat., II., 1868, 118. (Song of.) 

 Id., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XL, 1868, 8. 



(Note of set to music.) 

 Id., Dist. Ins. of N. Hamp., 1874, 373. 

 Smith, Rep. Conn. Bd. Agri., 1872, 381. 

 McNeill, Psyche, VI., 1891, 66. 

 Stetheophyma lineata Thos., Syn. Acrid., r873, QS- 



Id , Ninth Rep. St. Entom., 111., 1880, 104. 

 Fernald, Orth. N. Eng , 1888, 38. • 

 Bruner, List Neb. Orth., 1893, 23. 

 Morse, Psyche, VII., 1894, T05. 

 Mecostethus lineatus Morse, Psyche, VII., 1896, 327, 444, figs. 



McNeill, Rev. Trux. N. Am., 1897, 254, figs. 

 22a, 22b. 

 The range of this species as given by McNeill is " N. Eng. to N. 111. 

 and Iowa." He also adds that it is a " rare species, reported but a few 

 times." The above synonymy includes all references to it by American 

 writers. Some of these references, as those of Thomas, Smith, and 

 Fernald, were based on Scudder's writings, the author not having 

 collected it in person. The only definite localities from which it has 

 been recorded are: Norway, Me.; VVilliamstown and Andover, Mass.; 

 Valley of the Red River of the North, by Scudder ; North Haven and 



