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carefully for several daj^s no more were taken. A short time later I 

 discovered a colony of this species in a similar situation on the river 

 road, about two miles from town. They were very difficult to capture, 

 as it took the most intent searching before a specimen could be found, 

 and even then it was by no means an easy matter to make the capture, 

 for these small grasshoppers are masters of the art of jumping. They 

 can jump so quickly that owing to their color the eye cannot follow 

 them, and the strangest thing is that they can jump in any direction 

 with such rapidity that it is w^holly impossible to see in which direction 

 they have gone. They jump from one tuft of wire-grass to the top of 

 another tuft and there cling tightly to the highest straw ready to make 

 another leap. Although they are so small I have seen them frequently 

 spring several feet. The females, although much heavier than the 

 males, are almost equally agile. This species has the habit of edging 

 around its support when approached and remaining motionless with 

 hind femora drawn close to the body. It can be seen, however, to 

 be w^atching that which has alarmed it most closely, and on the first 

 quick movement or on too near approach it jumps at once. (M. H.) 

 Melanoplus scudderi (Uhler). 



It was with considerable surprise that this species was recognized 

 in the collections, as the distribution of it is thus extended a consider- 

 able distance south w^ard. Six male and sixteen female specimens from 

 Thomas\ille have been examined, taken November 30, 1903, Decem- 

 ber 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10, 1903, and December 14, 1902. There is consider- 

 able variation in the coloration, some being unicolorous, others 

 sprinkled with small blackish dots and maculations. 



Color of live male: Thomasville, November 30, 1903; general colors 

 burnt umber and cinnamon mingled in a pepper-and-salt combination, 

 the paler tint predominating toward the lower surface ; lateral bar on 

 the upper part of the prozona seal brown ; posterior femora wdth the 

 external bars not very distinctly marked, the internal bars milky 

 pink and dull seal brown, the whole overcast with the general "pepper- 

 and-salt" suffusion; posterior tibiae scarlet vermilion; under surface 

 of the body and posterior femora gamboge yellow suffused anteriorly 

 and posteriorly with gra3^-brown, clear on the basal segments of the 

 abdomen. Female: color much as in the male, but the under surface 

 duller and the pronotum dorsally suffused with fawn color and the 

 lateral bar on the prozona rather indistinct; antennae reddish-brown, 

 grading from poppy red at the base to maroon apically. 



This species is moderately plentiful during the fall months in the 

 pine woods. Its color blends almost exactly with the pine needles, 



