PROCKEDINQS 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. II, pp. 511-512. December 20, 1900. 



PAPERS FROM THE HARRIMAN ALASKA 

 EXPEDITION. 



XV. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL RESULTS (9): 



ORTHOPTERA. 



By a. N. Caudell. 



The large collection of insects obtained during the Harri- 

 man Alaska Expedition by Professor Kincaid contained only a 

 single species of Orthoptera, as follows : 



Melanoplus borealis Fieber. 



Melanoplus borealis Yi'E^KK, Lotos, iii, p. 120, 1853. — Scudder, Rev. Mela- 

 nop., p. 270, 1897. 



Professor Kincaid secured five adults, three males and two 

 females, and nine nymphs, at Kukak Bay, Alaska Peninsula 

 (July 3, 1899). They were all taken within a few feet of a 

 small pool in a sphagnum swamp. This pool, which was about 

 ten feet in diameter, was surrounded by a miscellaneous vege- 

 tation, in which the locusts lived. The specimens were cap- 

 tured by causing them to leap into the water, when they were 

 easily secured. They were preserved in spirits. A large scope 

 of country surrounding this spot was carefully gone over by 

 the collector during the succeeding fortnight and many similar 

 pools visited, but not another locust was seen. This would in- 

 dicate that this species is quite local in its occurrence. 



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