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Among a number of Orthoptera which were collected by Prof. E. E. 

 Slick at Michigan City, Indiana, on September 18, 1892, and forwarded 

 to me, was a single ? of this species. I immediately returned it to him 

 with the request that, if possible, he secure a number of others. On 

 October 15, there having been several severe frosts in the meantime, he 

 sent 18 additional specimens, 6 of which were (J 's. At the same time he 

 wrote concerning them as follows : " Some were found dead and others 

 could but jump one or two feet. I did not realize when the first lot 

 was sent how nearly these were like the sand, because they were so wild. 

 They were never more than 100 feet from the edge of the water (Lake 

 Michigan), and never along even the hillsides." 



The only record which has come under my notice of the occurrence 

 oi maritima west of the Atlantic coast is the brief one given by Thoilias 

 in his Ninth Illinois Report, loc. cit., where he says : "This has been dis- 

 covered only in the extreme northern part of the State ; " but he does not 

 state when nor by whom it was taken. McNeill includes it in his list of the 

 Illinois Orthoptera (Psyche VI., 64), on the strength of the above state- 

 ment by Thomas. 



Mr. Scudder, in his Distribution of Insects in N. Hamp., /oc. cit., 

 writes of it as follows : " This curious grasshopper is a good example of 

 mimicry, for it so closely resembles the colour of the sand on a sea 

 beach that it is difficult to see it when alighted. It is found only in such 

 localities, and reaches its northern limit about the narrow part of the 

 State washed by the sea. South-west it extends at least as far as New 

 Jersey." 



Tettigin^. 

 4. Tettix arenosus, Burmeister, 



Tettix arenosa, Burmeister, Handbuch II., 1S3S, 659. 



Tettix arenosus, Scudder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 XIX., 1877, 90. 



Bolivar, Essai Sur. les. Tettig., 1887, 

 95- 



Tettix ortiatus, Scudder, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., VII., 

 1862, 474 (In part.) 

 Thomas, Syn. Acrid., 1873, 184 (In 

 part.) 



(Not Tettix ornatus, Say.) 



