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west of there near the foothills. The collecting was done on the 

 prairie between the town and the foothills, less than a quarter of a 

 mile in width, and up the canyon known as Chimne}- (luh-h to the 

 top, about a thousand feet hiuher. Over tifty species were collected 

 at this locality. The prairie and foothill faunas are here quite dis- 

 tinctly and abruptly divided. 



Grand Junction^ Mesa County; altitude^ .f^^oOJp p<4. — Two stops of 

 short duration were made here. The collecting was don(^ northeast 

 of town and also in town just across the railroad from the station, 

 where many tine specimens of MelanopUis different /alls were taken. 



3/aneos^ Jfontesiima County; altitude^ 7,008 feet. — Two species were 

 taken near the station while the train stopped, JfilanopI as frmur 

 ruhi'um. and Stenoljotlirus curtipennh. 



Moiitevlsta, Rio Grande County; altitude, 7,665 feet. — A bicj^cle trip 

 several miles out of town was taken August 18. Insect life of all kinds 

 was very scarce and but nine species of Orthoptera were taken, the 

 most desirable one of which was probably Nem.obius utaJienda. 



Montrose^ Montrose County; altitude, 5,811 feet. — ^Half an hour's eol- 

 lecting in the vicinity of the station resulted in the capture of nearly 

 a dozen species. 



Morrison, Jefferson County; altitude, 5,753 feet. — Several visits were 

 made here. Just south of the station, across the creek bcA'ond and 

 to the right of the school house, grasshoppers were found to abound 

 in countless numbers. Collecting trips were made to and beyond the 

 picturesque red sandstone formations northwest of town and up 

 the canyon into the foothills. But two species were collected in the 

 foothills, however, Trimerotropis siniilis and Goniphocerus clavatus. 

 The bulk of the specimens taken on the prairie at this place was 

 Melanopliis occidentalis. 



Palisade, Mesa County; altitude, -'^,71^1 feet. — At this little town, 

 12 miles from Grand Junction, ^Eoloplus cliernqjodii was taken in 

 considerable numbers on the plants just across the railroad from the 

 station. A few other species, including a new species, were taken in 

 the immediate vicinity. 



Pikes Peak, El Paso County; altitude, 8,91-) feet. — A day was spent 

 here and the ascent of the peak made." The above altitude is that of 

 the halfway house, and it is to that locality which all the Pikes Peak 

 labels refer unless otherwise specified. 



Pine Grove, Park County; altitude, 0.738 feet.— Th'i^ is a small resort 

 some miles up Platte Canyon, and there a couple of days were spent 

 collecting along the railroad and up a side canyon for a mile or so, 

 leading up probably a thousand feet above the town. A dozen species 

 were taken here, mostly true foothill forms. 



Platte Canyon, Douglas County; altitude, 5,W'' /ic'/.— Numerous 

 trips were made to this place, which is but a station at the mouth of 



«See account in Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., V, 1902, pp. 74-82. 



