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cultivation. The only collecting was done in a limited bit of roadside 
where the banks were occupied by a mixed growth of two tall bunch- 
grasses, T'ridens flava and Andropogon furcatus. My visit to this spot was 
made August 30. At that time the following species were taken or ob- 
served, all being fairly frequent: J/elanoplus femur-rubrum, Melanoplus 
atlantis, Conocephalus strictus, Dissosteira carolina, Syrbula admirabilis 
and Arphia xanthoptera. 
10. This locality is on the east side of the Wabash about three 
miles north of Lafayette and a mile southwest of Wild Cat Creek. At this 
point there is a well-marked bluff marking the dividing line between the 
upland, here formed by Sioux sandy loam, and the Wabash bottoms. At 
the base of the bluff is an extensive marsh, shown on the Bureau of Soils 
map as a crescent-shaped patch of muck. The upland immediately bor- 
dering the bluff is occupied by a cemetery in which there are many large 
ivees, the whole forming an open grove with no undergrowth except the 
oidinary blue-grass sod. In this cemetery, frequenting the relatively dry 
blue grass were numerous examples of Jelanoplus scudderi and Melano- 
plus luridus along with the usual Melanoplus femur-rubrum and Encopto- 
lophus sordidus. On the steeper slopes, where there was a considerable 
amount of herbaceous undergrowth and some patches of Andropogon fur- 
catus, a few examples of Spharagemon bolli were seen and, hear the base of 
the slope, in a shallow depression, where there was a thick growth of a 
bright green, succulent grass, a small number of Stauroderus curtipennis 
were found. DPissosteira caroling was as usual common on paths and drive- 
ways both on the upland and in the bottom. The swamp at the base of the 
bluff was quite open and was of the type usual to the bottoms with rice cut- 
grass, Homalocenchrus oryzoides, forming the dominant vegetation of the 
wetter areas. On the side toward the bluff this growth was bordered by a 
thicket formed mostly by tall herbaceous plants among which sunflowers 
and goldenrods were conspicuous; while on the opposite side toward the 
open bottom lands it was bordered by a weed vegetation in which a 
tangled growth of smart-weed (Volygonum) predominated. In the rice 
cut-grass the common Orthoptera were JMZelanoplus femur-rubrum, Cono- 
cephalus brevipennis, Orchelimum nigripes, Orchelimum vulgare and Jlela- 
noplus differentialis. Both of the last-named species and also Conocepha- 
lus nigropleurum were frequent in the surrounding thickets, while O7- 
chelimum vulgare and Melanoplus femur-rubrum swarmed in the Polygo- 
num areas. In addition to the two forms last mentioned other species tak- 
