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numerous in early spring, they are much reduced in numbers. They may 

 be seen in sunny sheltered spots quite early in the spring and complete 

 their last transformation about the first or second week in May. They 

 are found until about the middle of July, but are commonest in May and 

 early June. 



This species is the least particular about its haunts of all our 

 CEdipodinse, appearing in open grassy places of almost any kind, whether 

 the soil be a sandy or a clayey one. It seems to be very generally dis- 

 tributed in Southern Ontario. I have seen it at Hamilton, Grimsby, 

 Toronto, DeGrassi Pt., and Clear Lake, Peterborough Co. 



The males are almost always of the brown form, inftiscata, green 

 examples being quite rare. I have, in fact, taken but three specimens of 

 the latter. Of the females, on the other hand, the majority are green, but 

 the relative proportion of the two forms is not nearly so unequal as with 

 the males. 



12. Encoptolophus sordidus, Burmeister. 



CEdipoda sordida, Burm. Handbuch der Entom., II., 643 (1838). 



Loaista nebulosa, Harr. Ins. Inj., 181 (1862). 



Encoptolophus sordiduSfBium. Scudd., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 XVII., 479 (1875). 

 A very local species in Ontario. I have taken only three specimens, 

 2 $ and I cJ , at Toronto, and have never seen it about Lake Simcoe. I 

 found it, however, very abundant at Niagara, Sept. nth, 1893, and its 

 rattling stridulation could be heard from the trolley window all along the 

 line between Niagara Falls and Queenston Heights. My Toronto 

 specimens were taken on the tbllowing dates: About Sept. 10, 1892, 

 I?; Sept. 21, 1896, I?; Oct. 17, 1897, i ^. It is most commonly 

 found in dry upland pastures. 



13. Camnula pellucida, Scudder. 



CEdipoda pellucida, Scudd. Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., VII., 472 



(1862). 

 CEdipoda atrox, Scudd. Ap. Hayden Geol. Survey of Nebraska, 



253 (1872). 



Cavmtila pellucida, Sauss. Prod. G^d., etc , 81 (1884). 



This is a very abundant grasshopper in many parts of Ontario, 



especially towards the north. At DeGrassi Pt. it sometimes occurs in 



positive swarms, rising up from the grass by the dozens at every step. It 



is not usually as numerous as this, however, though always one of our 



