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In the inland region this habitat is extensively developed, 

 due largely to the pasturing of stock along the borders of the 

 woods, which prevents the natural growth of young trees and 

 shrubbery. On the Warren Woods Preserve all of the forest 

 margin accessible to the stock pastured there is open, and the 

 ground beneath the trees covered with grass. Near the pre- 

 serve are patches of woods which have been thinned by cut- 

 ting, where similar conditions prevail throughout. The fol- 

 lowing species were taken in this habitat : 



Parcoblatta virginica Melanoplus viridipes* 



Diapheromera femorata Melanoplus mexicanns atlanis* 



Chloealtis conspersa* Melanoplus confiisus* 



Arphia sulpliurea Melanoplus kcclcri luridus* 



Chortophaga vvridifasciata Melanoplus bivittatus 



Camnula pcllucida Scudderia f areata furcata 



Dissosteira Carolina Nemobius faseiatus fasciatus* 



Spliaragemon bolli Gryllits assiinilis* 

 Spharagenion collafe tvyomingianuni 



Flood-plain and lowland forest habitat. A good example of 

 this type of habitat is found on the tiood-plain of the Galien 

 River where it flows through the Warren Woods. Except 

 for the mud-bars along the shores of the river, and a few 

 buttonbush swamps, the entire flood-plain is covered with a 

 heavy mixed forest in which basswood, elm, and sycamore 

 are the most conspicuous trees. There is little underbrush : 

 the herbaceous undergrowth consists of ferns, grasses, and 

 sedges, but is sparse and in many places absent. The flood- 

 plain is subjected to flooding in the spring; when the water 

 recedes many small pools are left to disappear gradually, in 

 time becoming mere patches of damp mud on the forest floor, 

 and eventually drying up. It was on such moist muddy areas 

 that the only Orthoptera taken in this forest were found. 



Similar forests were seen in several places on low, wet 

 ground, in depressions in the sand-dune and inland regions. 



