no The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. IV, No. 5, 



Lept3'.sma margitiicollis Serville, lias been recorded only from 

 Florida, South Carolina and central Indiana. A single immature 

 female was captured July ii, 1903, on Cedar Point near Black 

 Channel. 



Melanoplus viridipes Walsh-Scudder, reported hitherto only 

 from western Indiana and Illinois. A colony of these was found 

 in Highland county and they are fairly common in Franklin 

 county. They are one of our spring locusts, almost never being 

 found after the first of August. 



Melanoplus blatchleyi Scudder. The range of this grasshopper 

 is west of the Mississppi river, Marion county, Indiana, being 

 the most easterly point from which it has been recorded. During 

 the past summer it was captured in Franklin and Erie counties, 

 Ohio, a single specimen being secured in each, and a careful 

 search failed to reveal any others. 



Conocephalus palustris Blatchle3^ This species was described 

 from Indiana and has not been reported from any other state. 

 Specimens are in the collection at the State University from 

 Columbus and Castalia. 



Xiphidium nemorale Scudder. This is another .southern form 

 that is found quite plentiful around Sandusky Ba}-. 



Xiphidium strictum vScudder. The general range of this insect, 

 as heretofore recorded, is to the west and .southwest ; but it is 

 common in central and northern Ohio. 



Orchelimum volantum McNeill, has been recorded only from 

 Indiana and Illinois, but two adult .specimens were captured on 

 Cedar Point in August, 1903. 



Nemobius maculatus Blatchley, reported onh' from Indiana, 

 was captured in several localities in franklin countv, Ohio, this 

 fall. 



Gryllus americanus Blatchley, a recently described species from 

 Indiana, was found near Georgesville, Franklin county in Maj-. 



The rest of the species are such as one would expect in the 

 state, from thtir known range in adjacent regions. 



At present there are 99 species to record for Ohio, distributed 



among the families as follows : 



Forficulidae, 2. Acrididae, 33. 



riiasniidae, i. Locustidae, 29. 



Blaltidae, 5. Gryllidae, 19. 

 TeUigidae, 10. 



The following is a list of the species so far collected in Ohio. 

 Those marked with a *, 38 in number, have been found on Cedar 

 Point. 



FORKICUI.IDy\E. 

 *Forricula aculeata .Scudd. Lalna minor I^. 



PIIASMIDAE. 

 ^'Diapheroinera femorata Say. 



