SUBFAMILY ACRIDINAE 89 
show that this species has been found at Red Wing, Gray Cloud 
Island, and Fort Snelling. 
Melanoplus packardi Scudd. 
Melanoplus packardi is very similar in general appearance and 
closely related to both M. angustipennis and M. impiger when in its 
typical form, though it is one of the most variable of the genus as to 
coloration and markings. The very short furcula and the short cerci 
which are but slightly narrowed at middle and are truncate at tip, 
together with the longitudinally barred pronotum will usually serve 
to distinguish this species. It is usually somewhat larger than either 
of the preceding and in some forms has a slight resemblance to M. 
bivittatus, from which, however, it can be readily distinguished by 
the different cerci and furcula. We have found it sparingly in dry 
sandy fields and along roadsides at Granite Falls, Foxhome, Fergus 
Falls, Hibbing, and Duluth. 
Melanoplus fedus Scudd. 
Melanoplus fadus is closely similar in structure to M. packardi, 
but has the hind tibiae red. It is about the size of M. angustipennis 
but is darker in color, and in general structure is apparently more 
closely related to M. packardi. We have taken this as vet only in 
marshes and lowlands in the northern part of the State. At Lake of 
the Woods we found it in considerable numbers and at Allen Junc- 
tion, where we found it rather scarcer, we noted that when alarmed 
the insect dived from the tops of weeds where it was feeding and 
burrowed into the soft sphagnum. 
Melanoplus conspersus Scudd. 
One specimen taken at Mahtomedi is classed as Melanoplus con- 
spersus with some doubt. It is rather below medium size and of 
brownish coloration, paler below. Postocular band is faintly indicated 
upon the head but does not extend back upon the lateral lobes of the 
pronotum, which are rich brown, somewhat paler at the bottom. The 
median carina of the pronotum is distinct, broken at the sulcus and 
strongly elevated, almost subcristiform on the metazona. The tegmina 
are as long as the abdomen but not quite attaining the tip of the hind 
femora, brownish and heavily maculate with small, squarish spots ; 
hind femora are stout, griseo-fuscous, and with two rather broad, 
oblique, dark bars. The furcula is short and the forks are widely sep- 
arated at base and shorter than the last dorsal plate; cerci rather short, 
subequal, slightly narrowed at the middle, the tips spatulate and dis- 
