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is easily distinguished by its less prominent head, larger eyes, nar- 

 rower interspace between the eyes, more feebly sulcate frontal costa, 

 longer antennre of male, more coarsely punctate metazona, broader 

 tegmina and especially by the form of the male cerci and fureula. 

 So far it has been noted only along roadsides and in bare limestone 

 glades on the crests of high wooded hills near Wyandotte, Crawford 

 County. It probably occurs in similar situations throughout the 

 southern third of the State. It reaches maturity some time in June, 

 the first specimens having been taken on the 24th. Nothing dis- 

 tinctive of its habits is known, as when in the field it was thought 

 to be obovatipennis ; which, however, is a much later maturing insect. 



Since the above was in type I found (July 15, 1903) morsel to be 

 rather common among the underbrush of high wooded slopes on the 

 State University farm, three miles southeast of Mitchell, Lawrence 

 County. Here the soil was very sparsely vegetated, sedges and wild 

 asters being the prevailing herbs. The ground was covered with the 

 dead leaves of last season, with whose colors the hues of the locusts 

 so blended that they were invisible while motionless. The males 

 leap briskly when approached, but only for a short distance. The 

 heavier bodied females are more clumsy, and are easily caught with 

 the hand. 



I take pleasure in naming this locust in honor of Prof. A. P. Morse, 

 of Wellesley, Massachusetts, a special student and collector of Or- 

 thoptera, who has kindly shown me many favors during the prepara- 

 tion of the present paper. 



65. Melanoplus fasciatus (Barnston- Walker). 

 Acrldium fasciatum Barn., MS., 1870. 

 Caloptenvs fasciatm Walk., 2 19, IV, 1870, 680; Thorn., 206, V, 1873, 



224. 

 Mdanophis faxeiatu.^ Scudd., 179, XXXVI, 1897, 14, 23, 34; Id., 18 1, 



1897, 129, 134, 267, Plate 18, Figs. 2-4; Id., 188, 1900,57; 



Lugg., 84, 1898, 210, Fig. 136^; Morse, 100, Vm, 1898, 257; 



260. 281, Plate 7, Fig. 39. 

 FezotettLiborealis&GVLdd., 14 1 VII, 1862, 464; Thorn., 206, V, 1873. 

 Melanophis borealis Beut., 3, VI, 1894, 308. 

 Melanoplus rectus Scudd., 163, XIX, 1878, 284; Id., 16 1, VI, 1878, 43; 



Id., 16 4, 1879, 60; Fern., 5 3, 1888, 31. 

 Melanophfs nuius Scudd., 164, 1879, 59. 



Size, medium. Head not prominent, the vertex distinctly elevated 

 above the pronotum, the interspace between the eyes as broad (male) 

 or nearly twice as broad (female) as the basal joint of antenna; the 

 front half strongly sloping downward, shallowly sulcate, the lateral 

 margins distinct. Frontal costa as broad as the interspace between 



