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Springs it occurred in scrubby undergrowth of open oak-Jiickory' 

 chestnut woods of steep moimtain side. 



SCHISTOCERCA ALUTACEA (Maritime race). 



Virginia Beach, September 20 ; Cape Henry, September 20. 

 In both locahties the species was found in small numbers in wax- 

 myrtle (Myrica) scrub on the sand dimes. 



SCfflSTOCERCA OBSCURA (Fabricius). 



Churchland, September 15 (1 female), 23 (1 female), October 1 

 (1 female); Tappahannock, August 26 (1 female), September C 

 (1 male), 13 (1 female), 26 (1 female), October 2 (1 male), 11 (1 female) ; 

 Whitestone, September 26 (2 females). 



This striking species appears to occur most regularly in the reedy 

 areas of tidal marshes, having been observed on Scirpus amencanus, 

 Spartina cynosuroides, and TypJia (cat-tails); it also occurs in the 

 dense herbage clothing the adjoining slopes of the dry land and doubt- 

 less not infrequently wanders a considerable distance from water, 

 specimens having been taken at Churchland in a thick growth of 

 goose grass {Eleusine indica) on cultivated land and in roadside 

 thickets. 



DENDROTETTIX AUSTRALIS (Morse).i 



Monterey (Sounding Knob), September 1, 1914, 1 female, 4,000 

 feet. 



The specimen was taken on stony ground in the shrubby under- 

 growth of low open woods on the mountain side. 



MELANOPLUS SCUDDERI (Uhler). 



Churchland, September 16, November 4; Deanes, September 26; 

 Virginia Beach, September 20; Frankhn, September 18; Tappahan- 

 nock, August 21-October 24; Naylors, September 17; Sharps, 

 October 13; Ottoman, September 27; Irvington, September 26. 



Louisa, October 26; Republican Grove, November 2; Charlottes- 

 ville, December 5, 1913 (2 males, 1 female), September 10 to October 

 31, 1914, October 27 to November 20, 1915. 



Frequent in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain localities. Occurs 

 typically in dry, grassy tangles and undergrowth in or close to wooded 

 areas, occasionally spreading to open, grassy and weedy fields. 



MELANOPLUS CELATUS Morse.2 



Jarman Gap, July 30, 1 female. 



Monterey, August 20-30; Hot Springs, September 6-7. 



1 Podisma australis Morse. Mr. Rehn assures me that the species is actually a Dendtrotfttix, a view in 

 which, I imderstand, Morse now concurs. Mj- specimen was carefully compared with Morse's type by 

 Ml'. Ilebard, who informed me there was practically no question of its being the same species. 



s I am indebted to Morgan Hebard for the specific determination. He informs me the specimens are 

 not entirely typical, the cerci being "very broad distad." 



