﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  EETISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOPLI—SCUDDER. 
  7 
  

  

  able 
  that 
  the 
  fully 
  equipped 
  form 
  is 
  here 
  the 
  normal, 
  although, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  

   we 
  now 
  know, 
  it 
  is 
  much 
  less 
  commonly 
  found 
  than 
  the 
  brachypterous 
  

   forms. 
  Other 
  instances 
  where 
  there 
  is 
  considerable 
  but 
  not 
  so 
  marked 
  

   nor 
  perhaps 
  so 
  uniform 
  a 
  difference 
  in 
  wing-length 
  is 
  in 
  Paroxya 
  flori- 
  

   dana 
  and 
  perhaps 
  Hesperotettix 
  viridis, 
  in 
  both 
  which 
  genera 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  tegmina 
  is 
  variable. 
  In 
  these 
  two 
  species 
  the 
  tegmina 
  are 
  not 
  

   apically 
  broad 
  in 
  the 
  macropterous 
  forms, 
  and 
  difter 
  only 
  in 
  length 
  from 
  

   the 
  brachypterous 
  forms. 
  

  

  Materials, 
  etc. 
  — 
  The 
  specimens 
  forming 
  the 
  basis 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  study 
  

   are 
  in 
  my 
  own 
  cabinet, 
  which 
  contains, 
  often 
  in 
  large 
  series, 
  the 
  greater 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  si)ecies, 
  collected 
  in 
  large 
  part 
  by 
  myself 
  in 
  different 
  

   sections 
  of 
  the 
  country, 
  but 
  supplemented 
  by 
  specimens 
  secured 
  from 
  

   the 
  Texan 
  collections 
  of 
  Boll 
  and 
  Belfrage, 
  a 
  large 
  series 
  from 
  Iowa 
  

   and 
  Illinois 
  obtained 
  by 
  Doctor 
  J. 
  A. 
  Allen, 
  and 
  others 
  from 
  the 
  South- 
  

   western 
  States 
  and 
  Mexico 
  by 
  Edward 
  Palmer; 
  besides 
  the 
  entire 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  of 
  Mr. 
  P. 
  R. 
  Uhler, 
  who 
  many 
  years 
  ago 
  generously 
  turned 
  over 
  

   to 
  me 
  his 
  own 
  private 
  collection, 
  containing 
  among 
  other 
  things 
  many 
  

   specimens 
  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  early 
  explorers 
  of 
  the 
  West. 
  

  

  Through 
  the 
  favor 
  of 
  the 
  Assistant 
  Secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Institution, 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  Doctor 
  G. 
  

   Brown 
  Goode, 
  and 
  the 
  Honorary 
  Curator 
  of 
  Insects 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  insti- 
  

   tution. 
  Doctor 
  C. 
  Y. 
  Riley, 
  I 
  have 
  had 
  the 
  Museum's 
  entire 
  collection 
  of 
  

   Melanopli 
  in 
  my 
  hands 
  during 
  this 
  study. 
  The 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  of 
  Comparative 
  Zoology 
  in 
  Cambridge, 
  Massachusetts, 
  have 
  

   also 
  been 
  open 
  to 
  me. 
  My 
  neighbors 
  and 
  colleagues, 
  Mr. 
  Samuel 
  Hen- 
  

   shaw 
  and 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  P. 
  Morse, 
  have 
  also 
  placed 
  all 
  their 
  Melanopli 
  in 
  my 
  

   hands; 
  and 
  from 
  Professor 
  Lawrence 
  Bruner, 
  of 
  Lincoln, 
  Nebraska, 
  I 
  

   have 
  received 
  a 
  complete 
  series 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  forms 
  known 
  to 
  him, 
  which 
  has 
  

   been 
  on 
  the 
  wiiole 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  aid 
  I 
  have 
  received. 
  Professor 
  

   Jerome 
  McNeill, 
  who 
  had 
  begun 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  Melanopli, 
  mainly 
  of 
  the 
  

   National 
  Museum, 
  not 
  only 
  generously 
  transferred 
  the 
  work 
  to 
  my 
  hands, 
  

   but 
  gave 
  me 
  free 
  use 
  of 
  his 
  notes 
  and 
  sent 
  me 
  several 
  species 
  otherwise 
  

   unknown 
  to 
  me. 
  The 
  University 
  of 
  Kansas 
  sent 
  me 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  interest- 
  

   ing 
  western 
  forms 
  in 
  its 
  museum, 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  S. 
  Blatchley 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  the 
  

   Indiana 
  species 
  known 
  to 
  him. 
  Professor 
  C. 
  P. 
  Gillette 
  interesting 
  forms 
  

   from 
  Colorado, 
  and 
  Professor 
  H. 
  E. 
  Weed 
  a 
  few 
  from 
  Mississippi. 
  All 
  

   of 
  these 
  gentlemen 
  have 
  freely 
  answered 
  many 
  inquiries 
  made 
  of 
  them^ 
  

   and 
  any 
  failing 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  paper 
  must 
  be 
  laid 
  at 
  my 
  door. 
  In 
  this 
  

   way 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  the 
  tyjies 
  of 
  nearly 
  all 
  the 
  species 
  described 
  from 
  

   North 
  America, 
  and 
  while 
  in 
  England 
  Mr. 
  Samuel 
  Henshaw 
  kindly 
  

   examined 
  for 
  me 
  several 
  of 
  Walker's 
  types 
  at 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  I 
  

   have 
  been 
  further 
  aided 
  for 
  the 
  European 
  si^ecies 
  by 
  Hofrath 
  Brunner 
  

   von 
  Wattenwyl, 
  Doctor 
  Chr. 
  Aurivillius, 
  and 
  Mons. 
  A. 
  de 
  Bormans. 
  

  

  In 
  all, 
  I 
  have 
  examined 
  for 
  the 
  purposes 
  of 
  this 
  paper 
  nearly 
  eight 
  

   thousand 
  specimens, 
  of 
  which 
  about 
  seven 
  thousand 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  

  

  