B. C. Entomological Society 



I am indebted to Messrs. J. A. G. Rehii and Morgan Hebard for many 

 of the corrections made and for the determination of material and permis- 

 sion to use certain racial names. 



New Records. 



Family Arcrididae 



Suljfamily Oedipodinae 



Xanthippus leprosus (Saussure), 1SS4. 



Saussure, II. DE. :\lem. Soc. Geneve. XXVIII., p. 89 (18S4). 



This large red-winged species is found throughout the interior dry 

 belt from the Chilcotin district to the southern Okanagan valley. The 

 winter is passed as a nympli in hibernation. 



Locality Records. Oliver, 1919; Chilcotin, Williams Lake, Big Bar, 

 Rock Creek, Nicola, Minnie Lake, Douglas Lake, Chapperon Lake. Aspen 

 Grove, Knut.sford, Beresford, Kamloops, Vernon, 1922; Merritt, Prince- 

 ton, Hedley, Keremeos, Osoyoos, 1923 (E. R. Buekell). 



Dissosteira spurcata (Saussure), 18S4. 



Saussire, II. DE. Mem. See. Geneve. XXXIII.. p. 134 (1884). 



Two males of this species have been taken in August at Oliver, in 

 the southern Okanagan valley. They were foiuid on a sandy flat close to 

 the Okanagan river, amongst a scant growth of Sage-brush (Artemisia 

 tridentata Xutt.), Rabbit l)ush (Bigelovia graveolens Xutt.), and Ante- 

 loi)e-l)usli (Purshia tridentata I). ('.). 



Locality Records. Oliver. 1922-23 (E. R. Buekell). 



Trimerotropis gracilis (Thomas) 1872. 



Thomas, Cyrus. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv., ilontana, p. 461 (1872). 



This is not a common species in British Columbia, but occurs in small 

 colonies amongst Sage-brush in warm, sheltered localities. 



Locality Records. Chilcotin, 1921 ; Kamloops. 1922 ; Xieola, 1923 

 (E. R. Buekell). 



Subfamily Acridinae 



Melanoplus scriptus (F. Walker) and Melanoplus repletus (F. Wal- 

 ker) were recorded from Vancouver Island by Francis Walker and 

 described by him in the Cat. Derm. Salt. Brit. Mus., IV., pp. 680 and 678 



(1870). 



Mr. B. Uvarov has recently been revising the Walkerian types in 

 the British Museum of Natural History and has sent me the following- 

 notes on these species. "There is no doubt that M. scriptus (F. Walker) 

 is a .synonym of M. bilituratus (F. Walker), and the types agree abso- 

 lutely with Scudders description and figure in his Monograph." The 



