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SUPPLEMENT TO A REVISION OF THE 

 MELANOPLI. 



BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 



Since the publication a year ago of my Revision of the Melanopli 

 (Proc. U S. Nat. Mus., XX , 1-42 1, pi. 1-26), and in part, at least, 

 in consequence of it, a considerable number of new forms have been 

 discovered. In some cases these require considerable modification 

 of the tables there prepared for the determination of the different spe- 

 cies, especially in the genus Melanoplus, to which all but two of the 

 new species belong. I have thought it advisable, therefore, to bring 

 the descriptions of the new forms together and to introduce such alter- 

 ations in the different tables as will enable one to place any of the 

 new forms (both those here described and those described by others 

 this year) as easily as the old. 



Most of the species here described were obtained by the careful 

 collecting of Mr. A. P. Morse along the Pacific coast from southern 

 California to northern Oregon, in the summer of 1897. Of these Mr. 

 Morse has given me the full use. The others are principally due to 

 the efforts of Mr. C. F. Baker, Dr. J. L. Hancock and Prof. Otto 

 Lugger, to whom I am indebted for their forwarding of material. 



I follow in this paper the order of my Revision, to which I have 

 constantly to refer. 



PODISMA Latreille. 



In an interesting paper on " The Grasshoppers and Locusts of New 

 Zealand and the Kermadec Islands" (Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., XXX., 

 135-150, pi. 14, 1897), Capt. F. W. Hutton describes four species 

 which he refers to the genus Pezotettix Burm. ( = Podisma Latr.). This 

 is the first reference of the genus to the southern hemisphere, Japan 

 being the nearest country in which the genus was known; but I think 

 it a mistaken reference. I have not seen any specimens of the species 

 described by him, but he has kindly sent me some of the genera he 



[Proc. D. A. N. S., Vol. VII.] 19 December 30, 1898.] 



