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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  XJTIOXAL 
  MFSEFM. 
  

  

  mm., 
  female, 
  G 
  mm.; 
  tegmina, 
  male, 
  14 
  mm., 
  female, 
  15 
  mm.; 
  liind 
  

   femora, 
  male, 
  10.2 
  mm., 
  female, 
  12.2 
  mm. 
  

  

  Seven 
  males, 
  females. 
  Coast 
  of 
  Labrador, 
  beyond 
  tlie 
  timber 
  line, 
  

   at 
  latitude 
  59° 
  north, 
  Jewell 
  D. 
  Sornberger 
  (specimens 
  collected 
  in 
  

   spirits). 
  

  

  Fieber 
  also 
  reports 
  it 
  from 
  Greenland 
  and 
  North 
  Cape, 
  Norway. 
  It 
  is, 
  

   however, 
  not 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  European 
  fauna 
  either 
  by 
  H. 
  ris<;her 
  or 
  by 
  

   Biunner 
  von 
  Wattenwyl; 
  yet 
  Fieber 
  credits 
  specimens 
  to 
  the 
  Vienna 
  

   Museum, 
  in 
  which 
  city 
  Bruuner 
  lives. 
  Hofrath 
  Brunner 
  writes 
  me 
  that 
  

   he 
  possesses 
  specimens 
  from 
  Labrador, 
  Hudson 
  Bay, 
  and 
  Taldivia, 
  

   Chile. 
  I 
  can 
  not 
  forbear 
  expressing 
  a 
  doubt 
  about 
  the 
  accuracy 
  of 
  this 
  

   last 
  locality. 
  

  

  As 
  MeU()io2)lus 
  and 
  Podisma 
  are 
  the 
  genera 
  of 
  Melanopli 
  most 
  abun- 
  

   dant 
  in 
  forms 
  and 
  most 
  widely 
  spread, 
  the 
  former 
  being 
  especially 
  true 
  

   of 
  Mekoiophis, 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  present 
  form 
  is 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Mclaiiophis 
  

   most 
  nearly 
  allied 
  to 
  Podisma, 
  and, 
  like 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  

   latter 
  genus, 
  is 
  peculiar 
  to 
  high 
  latitudes 
  or 
  altitudes, 
  it 
  seems 
  proper 
  

   to 
  regard 
  M. 
  horcalis 
  as 
  an 
  archaic 
  form, 
  jierhaps 
  more 
  nearly 
  than 
  any 
  

   other 
  resembling 
  the 
  original 
  form 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  Melanopli 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  

   have 
  descended. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Sanuiel 
  Henshaw 
  recently 
  compared 
  for 
  me 
  a 
  female 
  specimen 
  of 
  

   this 
  sjiecies 
  from 
  Labrador 
  with 
  Walker's 
  type 
  of 
  CaJoptenxs 
  arcticiis 
  

   in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum. 
  He 
  found 
  them 
  to 
  agree 
  except 
  in 
  length 
  of 
  

   wings, 
  which 
  in 
  Walker's 
  specimen, 
  a 
  unique, 
  "extend 
  slightly 
  beyond 
  

   the 
  abdomen;'' 
  the 
  prosternal 
  spine 
  was 
  the 
  ^>ame. 
  I 
  have 
  accordingly 
  

   introduced 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  synonymj' 
  with 
  a 
  (question 
  nuirk: 
  if 
  it 
  belongs 
  here 
  

   the 
  range 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  should 
  be 
  extended 
  to 
  whatever 
  point 
  it 
  may 
  

   have 
  been 
  in 
  ''Arctic 
  America'' 
  that 
  Doctor 
  Rae 
  collected 
  his 
  si)ecimeii. 
  

  

  The 
  specimens 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  were 
  taken 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Sornberger 
  

   August 
  15-10 
  at 
  the 
  Esquimaux 
  village 
  of 
  Rama, 
  He 
  tells 
  me 
  that 
  

   they 
  were 
  all 
  taken 
  on 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  a 
  mountain 
  brook 
  fed 
  by 
  the 
  melt- 
  

   ing 
  snows 
  of 
  the 
  summit 
  near 
  by. 
  They 
  were 
  most 
  abundant 
  where 
  

   the 
  vegetation 
  was 
  most 
  luxuriant 
  at 
  the 
  bonders 
  of 
  the 
  brook; 
  none 
  

   were 
  found 
  below 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  200 
  feet 
  nor 
  above 
  1,500 
  feet, 
  at 
  which 
  

   altitude 
  herbaceons 
  plants 
  became 
  few 
  and 
  scattering. 
  Mr. 
  Sornber- 
  

   ger 
  can 
  not 
  say 
  upon 
  what 
  it 
  fed. 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  found 
  on 
  any 
  of 
  

   the 
  shrubby 
  plants 
  common 
  there 
  — 
  Betula, 
  Yaccinium, 
  Ledum. 
  Salix, 
  

   Empetrum, 
  etc., 
  though 
  he 
  thinks 
  he 
  saw 
  It 
  on 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  Cyperaceae. 
  

  

  IS. 
  ALLENI 
  SERIES. 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  small 
  series 
  the 
  pro/onsi 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  slightly 
  longitudinal, 
  

   and 
  the 
  interspace 
  between 
  the 
  mesosternal 
  lobes 
  in 
  the 
  sauie 
  sex 
  only 
  

   a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad. 
  The 
  antennae 
  are 
  very 
  long. 
  The 
  tegmiiia 
  

   are 
  always 
  'abbreviate, 
  but 
  vary 
  considerably, 
  being 
  either 
  elliptical, 
  

   attingent, 
  and 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pronotum, 
  or 
  lanceolate, 
  overlap 
  

   ping 
  and 
  reaching 
  a 
  little 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  femora. 
  The 
  

  

  I 
  

  

  