210 FAMILY v.— ACRIDIIN^. 



Only a single specimen was found among the trees on 

 Gray Cloud Island. The insect seems to be quite local. It 

 has been found elsewhere in tamarack swamps, on pine and 

 oak trees, and in cranberry bogs. 



Melanoplus fasciatus {borealis Scud.).* 



Rather small, dark fusco-plumbeous above, dark clay 

 yellow below. Head not prominent, dull plumbeous, flecked 

 with griseous, above very dark fuscous with a broad post- 

 ocular piceous band; vertex moderately tumid, distinctly 

 elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the 

 eyes as broad (male) or nearly half as broad again (female) 

 as the basal antennal joint; fastigium strongly declivent, 

 shallowly depressed, but with distinct and somewhat abrupt 

 though rounded bounding walls, which diverge a very little 

 in front of the eyes and then converge; frontal costa as broad 

 as the interspace between the eyes, scarcely contracted above 

 where its face is plain (male) or feebly tumid (female), at 

 and below the ocellus rather narrowly sulcate, deeper in the 

 male than in the female, percurrent, punctate, eyes rather 

 small, not prominent, longer than the infra-ocular portion 

 ofthegenae; antennaeferruginous, growing lutescent toward 

 the base, dusky toward the tip, nearly or quite as long 

 . (male) or about two-thirds as long (female) as the hind fem- 

 ora. Pronotum sub-equal, feeblj^ expanding posteriorly, 

 especially in the female, the disk plano-convex, separated 

 by a well-rounded but distinct shoulder from the vertical 

 lateral lobes, brownish fuscous, sometimes fusco-testaceous, 

 and then generally punctate with ferruginous, the upper 

 part of the lateral lobes with a broad piceous band crossing 

 the prozonaand sometimes continued as a feeble dusky cloud 

 on the metazona; front border truncate, hind border broadly 

 obtuse angulate, the angle rounded ; median carina distinct 

 only on the metazona and at the front of the prozona, else- 

 where obsolete or sub-obsolete; prozona feebly longitudinal 



•Discovered since printing table of Afe/anop/;. 



