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surprises me somewhat, is a well-marked female bearing the label "Hart Coll'n" and 

 my accession #17 in my own writing. My record shows that fti? was taken at Normal, 

 Illinois, March 18, 1883. In 1906 a specimen was taken near Urbana. We have one 

 from Ithaca, N. Y., in 1907, July 15, and from Doctor Nason three specimens at Algon- 

 quin, near Chicago, July 9. In 1910 Davis fotmd it at Aiu-ora, 111., June 15. My first 

 real acquaintance with the species was in 19 12 when I found it about ten miles east 

 of Urbana. The next year, 1913, it was taken near Urbana May 28 and at Mahomet, 

 111., west of Urbana, May 18. Another specimen is labeled May 22 from White Heath, 

 west of Urbana. This spring I have noticed a number of specimens in grass near 

 the University. The almost entire absence of the species from the abimdant collec- 

 tions of the office previous to 1906 is very good proof that it was absent or very rare 

 previous to that year. With us the female is invariably brachypterous and the male is 

 macropterous. I have no notes at all concerning its food plants or other habits. We 

 have two nymphs, both taken near here, one May 18 and the other May 28. 



Both the locality and the normal date of this record are puzzling, but 

 Mr. Hart very kindly sent the specimen to me for examination, and his 

 well-known accuracy scarcely admits any question as to the record, though 

 it seems impossible that a female should have been taken alive in March. 



Information from New Jersey was to the effect that no records addi- 

 tional to those published in the Smith list of insects of New Jersey were 

 available. Reports from other States were mainly negative. 



Prof. F. L. Washburn, of Minnesota, reported specimens from Wis- 

 consin and Minnesota, but without definite localities or dates. 



Prof. C. P. Gillette, of Colorado, states that none have been obtained 

 in their collections in that State. 



Records for the Dominion of Canada, kindly furnished from the 

 Entomological Branch of the Department of Agriculture and transmitted 

 by Mr. Arthur Gibson, are as follows : 



Ottawa, Ontario, June 25, 1908 (Gibson), June 22, 1912 (Beaulne), 

 August 18, 1914 (Beaulieu), September 20, 1915 (Hewitt), July 14, 1907 

 (Gibson); Aylmer, Quebec, June 24, 1912 (Beaulieu); Chelsea, Quebec, 

 July 3, 1909 (Groh), July 2, 191 2 (Gibson), June 21, 191 6 (Gibson); Mon- 

 treal, Quebec, July 7, 1906 (Beaulieu); Chicoutimi, Quebec, July 24, 191 5 

 (Beaulieu); Youghall, New Brunswick, July 5, 1905 (Gibson); Halifax, 

 Nova Scotia, July 1 1-22, 191 5 (Perrin). The insect is very abundant in 

 the Ottawa district. On June 21, 191 6, many were beaten from timothy 

 (Gibson). 



PROBABLY AN INTRODUCED SPECIES 



With the evidence available there seems to be good reason to believe 

 that the species was introduced from Europe at some time during the 

 early part of the last century, probably not earlier at best than about 

 1800. If we may give weight to the first records by Uhler and Provan- 

 cher, it is probable that the insect was introduced in New England or 

 Quebec or some of the other maritime provinces of Canada, perhaps 

 equally probable for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or Quebec. From 

 any of these localities the dispersal might easily have reached the other 



