22 THE ACRIDIIDAE OF MINNESOTA 
work again. After working busily for nearly half an hour, she with- 
drew the abdomen and walking down the side of the log climbed upon a 
stalk of Carex and spent some time nibbling there, until an incautious 
movement alarmed her, when she dropped to the ground below. We 
lay perfectly quiet, hoping she would return and perfect the drilling 
in the log, but after a time she began to edge cautiously away evidently 
seeking to escape. We caught her, placed her in a box, took her home, 
arranged a cage, and supplied a number of pieces of wood, hoping to 
see the process of drilling repeated. Although she fed freely we were 
apparently unable to select satisfactory pieces of wood as she rejected 
all and died within a few days. Dissection showed 19 well-matured 
eggs in the body. 
From the insectary notes of C. W. Howard, taken during the 
summer of 1912, we take the following regarding this species: “My 
specimens oviposited in fallen branches of oak, about 1% or 2 inches in 
diameter, usually in quite firm, sound pieces. The female bores a hole 
in the wood, either straight down from a broken end, following the 
grain of the wood or at a wide angle with the surface of the wood. 
About 10 eggs are laid in each pod although as few as 4 are sometimes 
deposited. The pod is about 10 mm. broad and 20 mm. long, from 4 
to 7 mm. of which is occupied by the dark brown varnish which cements 
the top, bulging up in the center with a convex surface. The eggs are 
about 5 mm. long by 1 mm. thick and are creamy white in color, slightly 
narrowed at the cap end.” 
Although doubtless state-wide in distribution, the following will 
give definite locality records of places where we have found this inter- 
esting little insect: Pipestone, Redwood Falls, Granite Falls, Camp- 
bell, Fergus Falls, Crookston, Bemidji, St. Cloud, Tower, Duluth, 
Hinckley, Mahtomedi, St. Anthony Park, Invergrove, Northfield, Man- 
kato, and Sauk Center. 
Chloealtis abdominalis Thom. 
Specimens of Chloealtis abdominalis were taken in July, 1912, in 
a dense brush of Ceanothus, Salix, and Taxus, near Bemidji, in land 
now partly cleared but formerly covered with a growth of piniferous 
forest. Even at first glance, its rather more elongate form, slightly 
different coloration, and the brown lobes of the pronotum assured us 
that it was not C. conspersa. But one adult male was taken, although 
careful search disclosed several immature forms but no more adults. 
This locality is doubtless near the eastern extreme of the range of 
this species which has heretofore been taken in Montana and North 
Dakota. 
