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considerable numbers of Dichromorphnu viridis, Sturoderus (Stenobothrus) 
curtipennis, Melanoplus scudderi, Melanoplus obovatipennis, Melanoplus 
femoratus, Conocephalus fasciatus, and Conocephalus nigropleurum.  Cer- 
tain species were scarce in most places, but were found to be common or 
even abundant in one or two restricted areas. Thus Hippiscus rugosus 
was found in only one place, but was there quite common. Paroryd 
hoosieri was taken in numbers in a swamp (16) in the Wabash bottoms 
opposite Battle Ground but was not observed elsewhere. A peculiar variety 
of Orchelimum nigripis and Conocephalus attenwatus literally swarmed in 
a boggy depression (14) on the upland about 2 miles northwest of West 
Lafayette. The former variety I did not find in any other place, while of 
the latter I noted elsewhere only a single individual which I captured in a 
bog in the Wabash bottoms (6) about half a mile south of Lafayette. 
Certain species were observed to be of rather infrequent occurrence 
put could hardly be called rare. Among these were Schistocerca americana, 
Melanoplus viridipes, Melanoplus gracilis, Scudderia terensis, Scudderia 
furcata, Neoconocephalus palustris, Conocephalus nemoralis and Atlanticus 
testaceus. The following species appeared to be quite scarce: Vruxralis 
brevicornis, Orphulella speciosa, Chlealtis conspersa, Schistocerca alutacea, 
Melanoplus walshii, Neoconocephalus robustus crepitans and Conocephalus 
saltans. 
DESCRIPTION OF LOCALITIES WHERE COLLECTIONS WERE MADE. 
1. A fairly extensive bit of woodland on the edge of the upland about 
a mile northwest of West Lafayette. The timber was in part rather deuse, 
but there were a number of open spots well fitted for sylvan Orthoptera. 
There had been no grazing in the portion of the woods where the collecting 
was chiefly done, so there was considerable undergrowth. Most of the 
land which these woods covered was dry or only moderately humid, but it 
included one or two depressions where the ground was either soggy or 
covered with standing water. One of these, a very limited tract, was 
included in the northwestern edge of the wood and was occupied by an 
almost pure growth of button-ball bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) ; the 
other was slightly larger and occupied by a mixed growth of sapling silver 
maples (cer saccharinuin) and red-berried elder bushes (Sambucus 
racemosa) together with a variety of other plants. Both of these swampy 
areas proved to be quite barren in Orthoptera. The best collecting was 
done along a path entering the woods at its northwest corner and in the 
