MORSE: ORTHOPTERA OF NEW ENGLAND. 525 
Measurements. 
Body Tegmina Hind femora 
Male 16 4.5 10.5 mm. 
While collecting in an abandoned field in the town of Needham, 
Mass., August 23, 1908, 1 secured a single male example of a Locust 
never before seen in the eastern part of the country but which 
seemed strangely reminiscent of a Californiah species. It was 
carried home alive, studied for a time, killed and critically com- 
pared with pinned specimens of Melanoplus phoetaliotiformis, 
which it resembled very closely, and finally described under the 
name of Melanoplus harrisii in honor of T. W. Harris, the first 
entomologist to write upon the Orthoptera of Massachusetts. 
M. phoetaliotiformis was described by Scudder from material 
secured by me at Gazelle, Siskiyou County, California (near the 
base of Mt. Shasta), in the summer of 1897 (see Proc. Davenport 
Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. 7, p. 179, pi. 7, fig. 9, 1900). He reported it 
also from Brown's Valley, Traverse Co., Minn., but the occur- 
rence of it or of any form closely resembling it in or near New 
England is limited to the single specimen mentioned above. 
Repeated search of the type station in several subsequent sea- 
sons has failed to procure additional examples. Could it possibly 
have been introduced in any way from the West? Recently this 
name has been placed in synonymy under Phoetaliotes nehrascensis 
which has been taken as far east as Indiana. 
The field where this specimen was found is of dry gravelly loam, 
but undulating and with damp, meadow areas, and at the time 
was covered with a rather heavy growth of cultivated grasses and 
weeds running wild, with nothing distinctive about it and no 
immediate evidence that would indicate importation from a 
western source of earth containing egg-pods or of other means of 
introduction. The spot is at least a mile from any railroad and 
many rods from any house. What the status or distribution of 
this Locust in New England will prove to be, can only be con- 
jectured. 
PYGMY LOCUSTS, GROUSE LOCUSTS— ACRYDIINAE 
{Tettiginae) . 
The Pygmy Locusts (or "Grouse Locusts" as they are some- 
times called) are our smallest representatives of the family, and 
