1910.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 615 



PRELIMINARY STUDIES OF NORTH CAROLINA ORTHOPTERA. 



BY JAMES A. G. REHN and MORGAN HEBARD. 



During a considerable portion of the time between April, 1904, and 

 June, 1906, the junior author of this paper resided at Sulphur Springs, 

 altitude 2,500 feet, a few miles from Asheville, North Carolina, and 

 collecting in this order was done on many occasions. The re- 

 sulting collections, of particular value as showing the character of 

 the Orthopterous fauna of the intermontane valleys of the southern 

 Appalachians, were further supplemented by collections made at 

 Balsam and on the slopes and summit of Mt. Pisgah in the Pisgah 

 Range and on the upper slopes and summit of Jone's Knob, Balsam 

 Range, North Carolina, With these typical localities of the western 

 portion of the State it seemed quite desirable to compare a representee 

 series from some coastal plain locality, and in consequence the junior 

 author secured from Mr. H. S. Brimley an extensive series of material 

 taken chiefly at Raleigh. To still further supplement this the senior 

 author was detailed by the Academy to examine portions of eastern 

 North Carolina, collections being made at Edenton, New Berne and 

 Winter Park near Wilmington in August, 1908. 



The result of the study of these combined collections are given in 

 the following pages. 1 



The total number of specimens examined w r as seventeen hundred 

 and twenty-three, belonging to one hundred and two species, of which 

 seventeen are here recorded from North Carolina for the first time. 



The following notes on the localities may be of interest : 



Sulphur Springs, Buncombe County, North Carolina. Altitude, 

 2,500 feet. This locality was found to offer several distinct types 

 of country, in all of which collecting was done, and on a sufficient 

 number of dates to give an almost complete list of the species found 

 in the vicinity. The rolling slopes of the surrounding country where 

 not cleared are covered with a heavy forest of oak, chestnut, maple 

 and other deciduous trees, and in the not heav} 7 undergrowth of these 

 tracts the most interesting species found were Melanoplus carncgiei 



1 See also these Proceedings, 1910, pp. 407-453, for a systematic study of the 

 specimens of the genus Ischnoptera included in this series. 



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