%'j\\t ^famitliait Jntaittdla^bt. 



Vol. XLI. GUELPH, JULY, 1909. No. 7. 



ON THE ORTHOPTERA OF NORTHERN ONTARIO. 



BY E. M. WALKER, TORONTO. 



(Continued from p. 178.) 



16. Podisma glacialis Canadensis, E. M. Walker. 



Fort William, Aug. 26, 1907, 1 <$ , 1 $ ; Temagami District: 

 Obabika Portage, Sept. 13, 1908, 1 ^ ; Portage, at upper end of Cross 

 Lake, Sept. 3, 1908, 1 £ ; Portage, between Cross and Temagami Lakes, 

 Sept. 4, 1908, 1 3 . 



In the specimen from Cross Lake the hind femora are like those of 

 typical variegata in the strongly-fasciate outer surface, otherwise the 

 specimens are typical of the race Canadensis, none approaching race 

 glacialis very closely. 



The female from Fort William was found upon the trunk of a spruce 

 tree beside the road through the spruce swamp, about five feet from the 

 ground. The male was taken in a little opening in the neighbouring 

 woods. The male from the portage between Cross and Temagami Lakes 

 was found adhering to the trunk of a spruce in a damp wood. The other 

 two were taken from bushes^at the ends of the portages. 



This insect seems to be, on the whole, quite scarce and local. North 

 Bay and certain parts of Algonquin Park are the only places where I have 

 found it in any considerable numbers. 



Three specimens of this species were taken by the late Dr. Fletcher 

 at Windy Lake, on the C. P. R., near Sudbury, Ont., Oct. 4, 1907, upon 

 Comptonia asplenifolia. They were mentioned in the Entomological 

 Record for 1907 (Ann. Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont., 1907), under the name 

 " Pezotettix borealis, Scudd." 



1 7. Melanoplas Bruneri, Scudd. 



This species was found in great abundance at Nipigon, and also 

 occurred at Ft. William. At Nipigon it far outnumbered all the other 

 Melanopli together, and was particularly abundant in a rough bushy clear- 

 ing on a sandy loam, where it was associated with large numbers of 

 Camnula pellucida- 



