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52. Melanoplus packardii Scudd. 



Found on the prairies and in the waste fields. Very variable in color. 

 Reaches maturity by the middle of July. Earliest specimen in my collection, 

 July 19, 1904. 



53. Melanoplus plumbeus Dodge. 



Rare in Sedgwick county. Only three specimens were taken; these 

 on different dates in September. One found in the high school yard, Wichita, 

 others in a pasture. One female specimen taken at Hiawatha, August 20, 1904. 



54. Melanoplus scudderi Uhler. 



This species reaches maturity late in August, and is abundant on 

 prairies and waste fields. One specimen taken in Brown county, on the Isely 

 farm, August 22, 1904. 



55. Phci'taliotes nebrascensis Thom. 



Fairly common on the prairies in September. First taken in the 

 pastures on the Nickereon farm, August 29, 1904. Reported in the Wa&hburn 

 College Bulletin, 1, 136, 137 (1885), by its synonym, Pezotettix nebrascensis Thom; 



56. Scudderia texensis Sauss Pictet. 



Two specimens were taken in tall weeds along Spring creek, August 

 15, 1904 ; two other specimens, in a similar situati3n, August 30, along the Nin- 

 nescah river; all females. New to Kansas/ 



57. Scudderia furcata Brun. 



Found in company with S. texensis, but more common. Firpt taken 

 August 21, 1904, on the Isely farm; later, in September and October, at Clear- 

 water, Wichita, and Sedgwick. 



58. Aretha'a gracilipes Thom. 



This species was found on the open prairies east of Fairmount during 

 July. Only a few specimens were taken. 



59. Amblycorypha iselyi Caud., n. sp. 



Seven specimens, three males and four females. Two pairs were sent 

 to Mr. A. N. Caudell, who pronounces this a new species. I take the following 

 from my field-notes, July 12, 1904: "A species of katydid caught on the vines at 

 the Lewis residence. The males begin their music a little after sundown, but are 

 not in full chorus before nine p. m. Caught five specimens, one male and four 

 females — the females by sweeping across the woodbine vines about nine p. m. 

 Many males were heard on the vines and weeds near this place, but they were 

 cautious and hard to approach; only one was secured. No good reason can be 

 assigned why they should be found only near the Lewis house, but nowhere else 

 on the hill were they found. Females measure as follows: Body, 29 mm.; teg- 

 men, 25 mm.; width of tegmen, 9 mm.; femur, 27 mm.; antenna', 35 mm.; pro- 

 notum, 8 mm.; ovipositor, 12i mm." 



Mr. Caudell's description, taken from the Journal of the New York Entomo- 

 logical Society, volume XIII, page 50, follows: "In size comparable with A. 

 rotundifolia, but differing from that species in having the elytra more rotundate 

 and the wings aborted, not reaching the tips of the elytra, in this respect allied 

 to the larger parvipennis of Stal. Ovipositor of about the same length and shape 

 as that of rotundifolia, but a little stouter. Pronotum flat above, the lateral 

 carinae sharp and persistent. Hind femora extending considerably beyond the 

 tips of the elytra in both sexes. Length of pronotum, male, 7.5 mm.; female, 8 

 mm.; elytra, male, 22.5 mm.; female, 25 mm.; hind femora, male, 25 mm.; fe- 

 male, 26 mm.; of hind femora beyond the tips of the elytra, male, 6.5 mm.; female, 

 7 mm.; ovipoaitor, female, 10 mm.; width of elytra, male, 9 mm.; female, 9 mm.; 



