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to the Xevada sage grasshopper, Alelanoplus rugglesi Gumey. For 

 instance, Riley, et al. (18S0, p. 7), included the following paragraph: 



This year [1S7S], as well as 1S77, was a locust year in this sparsely settled 

 territory. July 11 great numbers appeared at Winnemucea, and disappeared the 

 13th; on the ISth and 19th swarms again appeared. (United States Weather 

 Report) . 



Since the season of the year noted above is normal for rugglesi, and 

 Winnemucea is in the same area through which swarms of rugglesi 

 passed in the late 1940's, also since rugglesi could have been mistaken 

 for spretus by local observers, it seems quite possible that rugglesi is 

 the species responsible for the report quoted. 



Specimens of Melanoplus spretu^ examined, with full locality label 

 data except State names: 



Canada: Rosebank, Manitoba, (1 cf, 1 9);^Aweme, Manitoba, July jl9, 1902, 

 N. Criddle (1 d^, 1 9); Fairfax, July, J. Fletcher (1 cf, 1 9);* Boissevain, 

 Manitoba, Aug. 26, 1879 (1 d"); Delorain (Manitoba), July 8, 1898 (1 cT, 1 9 ); 

 Manitoba, Aug. 28, 1877 (1 cT); Arctic America. R. Kennicott, S. H. Scudder 

 (1 d-).' 



Minnesota: Glyndon, Aug. 1877 (1 9); Glyndon, Clay Co., July 1, 1875 

 (19); Minneapohs, Aug. 16, 1877 (2 cf) ; "Minnesota," Oct. 6, 1876 (3 cf, 6 9 )• 



North Dakota: Bismark, July 23, 1877, Geo. W. Sweet (4 cf, 1 9); Clifford. 

 Traill Co., July 25, 1891 (2 cf); Larimore, July 29, 1901 (1 &); Turtle Mts.e 

 (1 cf , 2 9); "N. Dakota," July, 1900 (1 &). 



Montana: "Mont" (1 cf, 19). 



Iowa: Ackley, Sept. 1, 1877 (2 cf); Dallas Co., Aug., Allen (1 9); Harrison 

 Co., Aug. 4, 1873 (1 cf); Monona Co., Aug. 1873 (1 9); "Iowa," June 1877 

 (1 cf). 



Nebraska: Lincoln, June 28, 1893, 1,150 ft., Bruner (1 cf); Red Willow Post 

 Office, Aug. 1874, John Byfield (1 cf); "Nebr." 1868 (3 cf, 1 9); "Nebr." 

 1874 (3 cf , 2 9). 



Wyoming: Alkali St(ation), 6,000 ft., July 27, 1877 (1 <f , 1 9); Steele, "flying 

 from S. & S. W.," July 1879, C. A. H. McCauley (1 cf ) ; Steele, July 1878 (1 cf ) ; 

 Steele, July 1879 (1 9); "Wyo. Terr." (1 cf). 



Utah: Salt Lake Valley, 4,300 ft., Aug. 1-4, 1877 (3 cf); Salt Lake, Aug. 16 

 (19); Salt Lake (1 9). 



Colorado: Argentine Pass, 13,000 ft., July 16, 1877 (2 cf); Arapahoe Peak, 

 11-12,000 ft., Packard (2 cf); Boulder, July 19, 1877 (2 cf); Colorado Springs, 

 July 1878 (1 cf), July 26, 1877 (2 cf, 2 9), July 21, 1877 (1 9), Aug. 1, 1877 

 (1 9 ), July 1877 (2 o ); near Denver, L. Agassiz (1 cf); Georgetown, 85-9,500 

 ft., July 12-13, 1877 (1 cf, 2 9); Mt. Lincoln, above timber, 11-13,000 ft., 

 Aug. 13, 1877 (2 9); Pueblo, July 8-9, 1877 (1 cf); White River, Aug. 6, 1877, 

 Mrs. E. H. Danforth (19); "Colorado," July 1877 (19); "Colorado," H. V. 

 Morrison (1 cf). 



* These specimens probably are part of the "enormous numbers" of tpreiua reported by Mltchenei (1964, 

 p. 50) to have been found at Fairfax, Manitoba, July 4, ISOl. by James Fletcher. 



« Probably collected by Kennicott in the Winnipeg area of Manitoba, as discussed by Scudder (1897b, p. 

 187), the Scudder name on the label probably referring only to the Scudder collection. 



• These Turtle Mt. specimens probably are from the same source as a large collection preserved at the 

 University of Xebraska and reported by Brett (1947, p. 14) as collected by Lawrence Bnmer in the early 

 1880*3. O. S. Bare (in lltt., Dec. 19, 1946) has informed us that M. S. Swenk once told him that the Turtle 

 Mt. series was collected about 189a 



