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also bears an accessions registration label, "51/49," which is associated 

 with the following notebook data: "District watered by Mackenzie and 

 Slave R. Presented by Sir John Richardson." (D. R. Ragge, in litt., Jan, 

 10, 25, 1957).) 



Pezotettix Junius Dodge, Canad. Ent., vol. 8, pp. 9-10, 1876 (males, females, from 

 Glencoe, Dodge Co., Nebr.). New synonymy. Lectotype here designated: 

 Male labeled "Fez. Junius cTG. M. Dodge Type; Collection C. V. Riley" 

 (USNM). (A similarly labeled female is associated with the lectotype. 

 Though no original locality label exists. Dodge stated that the species occurred 

 at Glencoe, Nebr.) 



Caloptenus parvus Provancher, Nat. Canad., vol. 8, p. 110, 1876 (one male from 

 Cap Rouge, Quebec [southern outskirts of Quebec City]). Lectotype here 

 designated: The first of two males pinned in Provancher's first collection 

 (Musee de la Province, Quebec). (N.-M. Comeau has reported (in litt., 

 Jan. 8, 1957) that although a single specimen was originally mentioned, an 

 1877 catalog mentioned two, and that both are now in very good condition.) 



Melanoplus extremus scandens Scudder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, p. 289, pi. 1, fig. 

 f, 1897 (unstated number of specimens from Big Horn Mountains, Wyo., 

 and several localities in New England, as well as unstated localities "in the 

 high north"). Lectotype here designated: Male labeled "White Mts. Alpine. 

 Scudder, Drawn, Mel. extremus Scudder's Type, 1895, Drawn for Ap- 

 palachia, S. H. Scudder Coll., Type 15466" (MCZ). (Tegmina of lectotype 

 extend 5 mm. behind the apex of abdomen. A female with similarly long 

 tegmina bears the same data.) 



Melanoplus monticola Scudder, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 36 (154), pp. 24, 

 34, 1897; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 20, pp. 135, 290-291, pi. 19, fig. 5, 1897 

 (two males, two females from "above timber line on Sierra Blanca, Colo- 

 rado"). New synonymy. Lectotype designated by Rehn and Hebard 

 (1912, p. 84): The figured male (MCZ). (Only fragments of the lectotype 

 remain. The second original male is at Philadelphia (ANSP) ; its subgenital 

 plate is about as in fig. 16,d-2, in lateral view, and in posterior view two prom- 

 inences are developed, much as in fig. 11,6-4.) 



The following four specimens of borealis were loaned from Vienna 

 by Dr. Beier in addition to the lectotype: One nymph labeled as from 

 Greenland; a female labeled Labrador, 1870; a female from Okak 

 Islands, Labrador, 1838; a female from Nain, Labrador, 1832. The 

 last two specimens bear labels reading "Coll. Br. v. W. Labrador, 

 Coll. Sommer." M. C. Sommer was a Danish handler and collector 

 of insects who died in 1868, from whom Brunner is recorded as ob- 

 taining Orthoptera, and it seems probable that these are the female 

 specimens from Labrador recorded by Brunner (1861, p. 223) as 

 Caloptenus borealis. At the same time he recorded material from 

 Valdivia [Chile], the latter doubtless being a misidentification. 

 Brunner's specimens may not have been available to Fieber in 1853, 

 hence the lectotypic selection of the male which does not provide a 

 clear type locality, though it unmistakably is the species currently 

 called Melanoplus borealis (aedeagus exposed, preserved in dry 

 condition) . 



