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planted in clover, I captured a female specimen of Schistocerca alutacea, 
The capture was made close to the railroad, along which there was a 
mixed growth of elder (Sambucus) and white melilot (Welilotus alba). 
The latter formed a yery rank growth in some abandoned gravel pits on 
the opposite side of the railroad. The color of this specimen was much 
duller than that of examples from the New Jersey sphagnum bogs, being 
an olive brown or pale leather color with hardly a trace of green, and 
with the dorsal stripe, although easily recognizable, by no means con- 
spicuous. 
4. At this point some roadside collecting was done. The place is on 
the slope leading from the “second bottom” at West Lafayette to the 
upland immediately north of the town. The roadside vegetation consisted 
in the dryer parts of a mixture of blue grass and timothy and in the 
gullies of a rank growth of Mlilolus alba. The Orthoptera were all of 
common types. Melanoplus femur-rubrum swarmed everywhere, while its 
congener, WM. differentialis, was almost entirely limited to the thickets. In 
the blue-grass-timothy areas Conocephalus strictus was common, while Si/r- 
bula admirabilis was of frequent occurrence. 
5. This place, locally kuown as “the tank’ from the preserce of the 
storage tank of the West Lafayette water company, is on the edge of the 
upland at the head of a deep ravine known as Happy Hollow. It over- 
looks the Wabash bottoms, “second bottoms” being absent from this point 
north. The soil is Miami silt loam. The land was untilled the past 
season and had evidently not been in cultivation for a long period. It was 
open, but at its southern edge where it meets the steep slopes leading 
flown into Happy Hollow was bordered by the relatively dense woods 
which clothe these slopes. The open areas were closely covered with blue 
grass with which were locally intermixed small areas or scattered clumps 
of wiregrass, Poa compressa, and foxtail, Chaetochloa glauca. There were 
also considerable clover and some low trailing briers. Close to the woods 
the blue grass became rather sparse and grew only in short scattered 
clumps with open places between where the bare soil was exposed or where 
certain hardy herbs, mostly composites, grew. In one or two places on the 
higher land where the blue grass was very thin, were formations of Andro- 
pogon scoparius with A. furcatus as a minor constituent. At one place 
immediately adjoining the woods was an extevsive patch of J'ridens flava. 
Within the outer edge of the woods on some level stretches where the less 
eroded parts of the bluff project out into the ravine, were a few scrubby 
