12 PSYCHE [February 
city hall of Fall River, Mass., Dr. George Dimmock is making a card catalogue of 
the fauna of the middle Connecticut valley, Mr. 5S. A. Shaw is making a careful 
study of the fauna at Hampton, N. H., while a number of entomologists in Maine 
are doing excellent work. The members of the Cambridge Entomological Club 
are also hard at work, but we have a task before us more difficult than simply col- 
lecting. We are on debatable faunistic ground. We are in the midst of a war on the 
Gypsy and Brown-tail moths, the continued work on their suppression will undoubt- 
edly reveal many changes in local conditions. It seems therefore essential that our 
local work should be the best, and that the importance of this matter be fully appre- 
ciated. 
MELANOPLUS HARRISIT N. SP. 
BY A. P. MORSE, WELLESLEY, ‘MASS. 
CLosELy resembling M. phoetaliotiformis of northern California but a little 
smaller and distinctly more slender, especially in the hind femora, the face more 
retreating and the abdomen more strongly keeled above. 
Facial costa narrow, only equalling width of basal joint of antenna. Face deep 
plumbeous, brownish above, lacking the luteous tints of phoetaliotiformis. ‘Top of 
head and pronotum without pale markings. Sides of pronotum, mesothorax and 
metathorax heavily marked with fuscous. Pronotum narrower, its hind margin more 
produced. Hind femora intense cherry red apically within and beneath, shading 
into luteous at base. Hind tibiae very pale glaucous, distinctly annulate with deep 
black at base, infuscated beneath apically and at proximal third. Genitalia similar 
to those of phoetaliotiformis, the cerci a little slenderer, the sides of the subgenital 
plate, not fuscous but only slightly infumated. 
One male, Needham, Mass., Aug. 23. Collection of A. P. Morse. Taken 
among the rank herbage of an abandoned upland field on gravelly loam. But a 
single specimen was found in spite of prolonged sweeping and several subsequent 
visits to the scene of its capture. 
Named in honor of Thaddeus William Harris, the first entomologist to write 
on the orthoptera of Massachusetts. 
