MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 507 
While tegmina of every length between the extremes given are 
to be found, most individuals fall distinctly into either a short- 
winged or a long-winged series. The long-winged form seems 
to be more plentiful at high elevations and in high latitudes. It 
is quite variable in coloring as well as in wing-length. Typically, 
its general coloration of olive with black markings is quite 
characteristic; but the female especially often departs widely 
from this type and when long-winged resembles M. femur- 
rubrum. 
The Northern Meadow Locust makes its appearance early 
in the season, reaching maturity in late June or early July, and 
in the White Mountain region is still not uncommon in early 
September. Like its relative the Red-legged Locust it is partial 
to cool, moist places and is usually found in the dense, succulent 
grass of meadows and springy runs, in cold bogs, and among the 
patches of sedge on the mountain tops. Its flight is like that of 
the Red-legged Locust but not as prolonged. 
It probably inhabits all of Maine except the low, warm south- 
west corner, as well as the boreal parts of New Hampshire and 
Massachusetts. Outside of New England, it occurs over a wide 
extent of Canada, and is recorded from Nebraska, Wyoming, 
Alaska, and Arctic America. Owing to its only partial occu- 
pancy of our territory exact records are of interest: — I have 
taken it at Cherryfield, Houlton, Mars Hill, Fort Kent, Orono, 
and Norway, Me.; North Conway, Jackson, Randolph, and 
various points on Mt. Washington, N. H.; Newport, Troy, 
Jay, Montgomery, Hyde Park, Woodstock, and the summit of 
Ascutney Mountain, Vt.; on the top of Mt. Greylock and at 
Winchendon, Mass. It has also been sent me from Hudson, Me., 
and Scudder took it in the alpine region of Mt. Washington and 
Mt. Madison, N. H. 
Little Locust. 
Melanoplus confusus Scudder. 
Plate 22, figs. 15, 16; Plate 23, figs. 3, 4. 
Melanoplus confusus Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 339 (1897). 
Caloptenus minor Scudder, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 17, p. 478 
(1875). 
Melanoplus minor Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 337, pi. 22, 
