﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  RE 
  VISION 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELANOPLI— 
  SC 
  UDDER. 
  215 
  

  

  Louis, 
  Missouri, 
  October 
  10 
  (same) 
  ; 
  Kirkwood, 
  Saiut 
  Louis 
  County, 
  

   Missouri, 
  September 
  6, 
  October 
  (same); 
  Busliberg, 
  Jefterson 
  Couuty, 
  

   Missouri, 
  August 
  24 
  (same) 
  ; 
  Mississippi 
  (L. 
  Bruner) 
  ; 
  Texas, 
  September 
  

   20, 
  October 
  13, 
  Belfrage; 
  Dallas, 
  Texas, 
  Boll 
  (S.H.Scudder; 
  U.S.KM.— 
  

   Eiley 
  collection); 
  Fort 
  Worth, 
  Tarrant 
  County, 
  Texas 
  (U.S.X.M. 
  — 
  

   Eiley 
  collection). 
  

  

  It 
  lias 
  also 
  beeu 
  reported 
  from 
  l^ew 
  Jersey 
  (Smith), 
  Ithaca, 
  Xew 
  York 
  

   (Comstock), 
  Normal, 
  McLean 
  County, 
  Illinois 
  (Thomas), 
  various 
  parts 
  

   of 
  Kentucky 
  (Garman), 
  Topeka, 
  Shawnee 
  County, 
  Kansas 
  (Bruner), 
  

   and, 
  with 
  doubt, 
  by 
  Thomas 
  from 
  Colorado 
  " 
  subalpine" 
  and 
  southern 
  

   Colorado. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  varies 
  to 
  a 
  considerable 
  degree, 
  as 
  ajDpears 
  in 
  part 
  from 
  

   the 
  above 
  description. 
  Texan 
  specimens 
  have 
  the 
  tegmina 
  uniformly 
  

   less 
  acuminate 
  apically 
  and 
  a 
  longer 
  furcula. 
  Occasionally 
  the 
  tegmina 
  

   are 
  considerably 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  as 
  appears 
  especially 
  in 
  a 
  

   pair 
  sent 
  me 
  by 
  Professor 
  H. 
  Garman 
  from 
  Kentucky. 
  Specimens 
  

   from 
  southern 
  New 
  England 
  appear 
  uniformly 
  somewhat 
  smaller 
  than 
  

   others, 
  while 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  difference 
  in 
  size 
  between 
  specimens 
  from 
  

   Maryland 
  and 
  Texas. 
  

  

  Walsh, 
  supposing 
  the 
  species 
  here 
  described 
  as 
  M. 
  icalshii 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  

   trne 
  ^F. 
  scudderi, 
  named 
  the 
  present 
  species 
  in 
  his 
  letters 
  Fezotettix 
  

   rubricrus, 
  and 
  I 
  still 
  possess 
  several 
  specimens 
  sent 
  me 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  1805 
  

   under 
  that 
  name. 
  Examination 
  of 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  Uhler 
  and 
  Thomas 
  

   show 
  that 
  scudderi 
  and 
  iinicolor 
  are 
  identical, 
  as 
  McNeill 
  thought. 
  

  

  Eiley 
  states 
  that 
  this 
  species 
  attains 
  maturity 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  vSaint 
  

   Lonis, 
  Missouri, 
  about 
  September 
  1, 
  and 
  begins 
  to 
  oviposit 
  on 
  Septem- 
  

   ber 
  24. 
  The 
  eggs 
  have 
  a 
  quadrilinear 
  arrangement 
  in 
  the 
  pod. 
  Uhler 
  

   found 
  it 
  abundant 
  near 
  Baltimore, 
  Maryland, 
  on 
  ''the 
  sides 
  of 
  high 
  

   hills," 
  Beutenmiiller 
  about 
  New 
  York 
  City 
  in 
  "dry 
  places," 
  and 
  Com- 
  

   stock 
  about 
  Ithaca, 
  New 
  York, 
  "among 
  scattered 
  trees 
  on 
  the 
  crests 
  

   and 
  slopes 
  of 
  our 
  highest 
  hills." 
  In 
  the 
  West, 
  however, 
  Allen 
  found 
  it 
  

   in 
  Iowa 
  "common 
  in 
  grassy 
  groves" 
  and 
  " 
  on 
  prairies," 
  while 
  ]\rcNeill 
  

   says 
  that 
  in 
  Illinois 
  it 
  "is 
  very 
  frequently 
  found 
  along 
  roadsides 
  or 
  in 
  

   pastures," 
  and 
  in 
  Indiana 
  Blatchley 
  finds 
  it 
  "in 
  open 
  woods 
  and 
  

   pastures." 
  

  

  42. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  GILLETTEI, 
  new 
  species. 
  

  

  (Plate 
  XIV, 
  tig. 
  7.) 
  

  

  Of 
  rather 
  small 
  size, 
  blackish 
  fuscous, 
  testaceous 
  beneath. 
  Head 
  

   not 
  prominent, 
  brownish 
  fuscous 
  deepening 
  in 
  tint 
  above 
  and 
  flecked 
  

   with 
  testaceous 
  below, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  and 
  labrum 
  testaceous, 
  flecked 
  with 
  

   fuscous; 
  vertex 
  rather 
  feebly 
  tumid, 
  not 
  elevated 
  above 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  

   the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  first 
  antennal 
  

   joint; 
  fastigium 
  steeply 
  declivent, 
  rather 
  feebly 
  sulcate; 
  frontal 
  costa 
  

   fading 
  well 
  before 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  feebly 
  narrowed 
  above, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  

   interspace 
  between 
  the 
  eyes, 
  faintly 
  sulcate 
  at 
  and 
  below 
  the 
  ocellus, 
  

   biseriately 
  punctate; 
  eyes 
  moderately 
  large, 
  not 
  very 
  prominent, 
  some- 
  

  

  