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Melanoplus atlanis (Riley). 



This widely distributed species is represented by thirty-nine North 

 Carolina individuals distributed as follows: Raleigh, July 1-24. 

 July 22, August 3-15, September 22, twelve d\ eight 9 ; Lillington, 

 June 28, one cT ; Sulphur Springs, May 6, June 13, September 18-28, 

 six d\ three 9 ; Edenton, August 20, two cf, one 9 ; New Berne, 

 August 24, two <u , four 9. 

 Melanoplus scudderi (Uhler). 



This species is represented by a Raleigh series of seven males and 

 ten females, taken August 25 and September 2-22, 1904. These 

 specimens average about the same size as individuals from New Jersey. 

 Upland fields, pastures and pine woods were frequented by this species 

 at Raleigh. 

 Melanoplus oarnegiei Morse. 



This interesting form is represented by fourteen males and seventeen 

 females taken at Sulphur Springs, September 17-29 and October 7, 

 1904 and 1905. The series is fairly uniform in size and with but little 

 variation in general coloration. The only previous records for this 

 species are the original ones from Denmark and Spartanburg, S. C, 

 and Blue Ridge, Ga. In the vicinity of Sulphur Springs this was the 

 most abundant short-winged Melanoplus. It was found usually in 

 the undergrowth of the woods in the more open situations. 



Melanoplus deceptus Morse. 



In the Academy collection there is a single imperfect male of this 

 species from "Tennessee." The only previous records were from 

 Balsam (Jones's Peak), N. C, and Jasper, Ga. 



Melanoplus devius Morse. 



A series of six males and ten females from Sulphur Springs taken 

 September 9 to 29, 1904-1905, and two males, seven females and one 

 immature individual taken on the higher wooded slopes (5,000 feet) 

 of Mt. Pisgah, October 1, 1904, represent this species, previously 

 known only from Wytheville, Va., and Topton, X. C. Both lot- 

 exhibit some individual variation in size, although this is more pro- 

 nounced in the Sulphur Springs specimens, particularly the males. 

 However, the original measurements given by Morse cover the extremes 

 in size before us, the Pisgah females averaging very slightly smaller 

 than Sulphur Springs individuals of the same sex. The Pisgah males 

 are so few in number that comparison of that sex is of little value, but 

 measurements of the females from both localities show that the 

 apparently shorter femora of the Pisgah females is much more than a 



