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The national museum materi.il con- 

 tains specimens fiom Watertown, Dak., 

 Mont., Iowa, and Ft. Robinson, Gor- 

 don, and Valentine, Neb. Prof. Bruner 

 lias sent me examples from N. and S. 

 Dak., anti reports it also from Wvo.. 

 and various parts of Neb. Scudder's 

 collection comprises specimens from 

 N. Ind., Crawford Co., Dallas Co., 

 and Jefferson, Iowa, July and Aug. ; 

 North Red R., Dak., Platte R., Den- 

 ver, Colo , Utah, and several specimens 

 labeled Aspinwall but whose locality is 

 open to some doubt. 



Race UtaJioisc Thomas. 



Oedipoda iitaJieitsis. Thomas, U. S. 

 Geog. .Surv., Wheeler, v, SS3 ; pi. 44, 

 fig. 2. 



Dlssostelra iitahensis Thos. Saus- 

 sure, Addit. Prod. Oed., 167. 



What the form is to which Thomas 

 applied this name is problematical. 

 The characterization given in the refer- 

 ence noted above indicates a form inter- 

 mediate between collare and cristatuin, 

 and it is probable that it was applied 

 to some form of the collare group. 

 Breadth of wing-band, given by Thomas 

 as a distinguishing character, is entirely 

 worthless for that purpose. The only 

 diagnostic character given that is of any 

 importance is: "Crest of pronotum a 

 little more elevated than in CE. \Diss.'\ 

 carolhia." (See also aeqitale, this 

 paper.) 



Prof. Bruner has sent me a 9 from 

 Ogden, Utaii, of a form to which he 

 applies this name. In Mr. Scudder's 

 collection is a series of iS c? , 7 9 ^ from 



Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 30-31, 4700 ft. 

 alt., with which this specimen agrees 

 save in having the carina very slightly 

 higher. These speciinens are verv 

 near the typical collare, though having 

 the eyes somewhat larger, and the teg- 

 mina a little shorter than do manv 

 specimens from the plains. 



Race Sciidderi Morse. 



5'. acqnale, subsp. scudderi. Morse, 

 Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist., xxvi, 325 



^. acquale, in part Scudder, Proc. 

 Boston soc. nat. hist., xvii, 46S. 



Concerning this race there is little to 

 be added to the acc(_)unt given in my 

 New England paper. I have since 

 taken it on July 7 at Dover, Mass., two 

 weeks earlier than before recorded. I 

 have secured it also at North Windham 

 and North Haven, Ct., and on Martha's 

 Vineyard, and have received it from 

 Belmont, Mass., through Mr. C. ]. 

 Maynard. Mr. Scudder's material 

 consists of a single 9 from the vicinity 

 of Boston, several specimens from Cape 

 Cod, and a considerable number from 

 Nantucket Id. A badly damaged $ , 

 presumably of this race, from Bruns- 

 wick, Me., in .Scudder's collection, so 

 strongly resembles the specimens of 

 collare from Minnesota and the Red R. 

 of the North arranged with it in the 

 form of the head and pronotum, and as 

 far as may be judged from what remains 

 of the femora in lacking fuscous on 

 their basal part, as to suggest a doubt 

 regarding the correctness of the locality 

 indicated. 



