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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIOXAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  vol.xx. 
  

  

  or 
  but 
  ill 
  the 
  feeblest 
  degree. 
  Ovipositor 
  pale 
  brownish, 
  tipped 
  with 
  

   reddish 
  and 
  margined 
  with 
  black. 
  

  

  The 
  colors 
  in 
  the 
  above 
  description 
  are 
  taken 
  mostly 
  from 
  living 
  

   examples. 
  

  

  Length 
  of 
  body, 
  male, 
  18 
  mm., 
  female, 
  24 
  mm.; 
  antennae, 
  male 
  and 
  

   female, 
  9 
  mm.; 
  teginina, 
  male, 
  13.5 
  mm., 
  female, 
  17 
  mm.; 
  hind 
  femora, 
  

   male, 
  11. 
  o 
  mm., 
  female, 
  13 
  mm. 
  

  

  Ninety-two 
  males, 
  74 
  females. 
  Moosehead 
  Lake, 
  Maine; 
  Norway, 
  

   Oxford 
  County, 
  Maine, 
  S. 
  I. 
  Smith 
  (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  

   Mount 
  Kearsarge, 
  New 
  Hampshire, 
  2,000 
  feet 
  (A. 
  P. 
  Morse); 
  Pinkliam 
  

   Notch, 
  New 
  Hampshire, 
  September 
  (A. 
  P. 
  Morse); 
  Sudbury, 
  Rutland 
  

   County, 
  Vermont; 
  Adams, 
  Berkshire 
  County, 
  Massachusetts, 
  August 
  

   IG, 
  17 
  (A. 
  P. 
  Morse); 
  Springfield, 
  Hampden 
  County, 
  Massachusetts, 
  

   Allen 
  (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  Warwick, 
  Franklin 
  County, 
  

   Massachusetts, 
  Miss 
  A. 
  M. 
  Edniands 
  (same); 
  Amherst, 
  Hampshire 
  

   County, 
  Massachusetts 
  (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  Andover, 
  

   Essex 
  County, 
  Massachusetts; 
  Maiden 
  aud 
  Waltham, 
  Middlesex 
  County, 
  

   Massachusetts, 
  September 
  9 
  (S. 
  Henshaw); 
  Blue 
  Hill, 
  Norfolk 
  County, 
  

   Massachusetts, 
  August 
  14, 
  19 
  (same); 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Boston 
  and 
  Jamaica 
  

   Plain, 
  Suffolk 
  County, 
  Massachusetts, 
  August 
  13, 
  10 
  (S. 
  Henshaw; 
  S. 
  

   H. 
  Scudder); 
  Barnstable, 
  Massachusetts; 
  Provincetown, 
  Barnstable 
  

   County, 
  September 
  (S. 
  H. 
  Scudder; 
  Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  

   Nantucket, 
  Massachusetts, 
  September 
  (S. 
  Hensbaw; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  

   North 
  Haven, 
  New 
  Haven 
  County, 
  Connecticut, 
  August 
  23 
  (A. 
  P. 
  

   Morse); 
  Canaan, 
  Litchfield 
  County, 
  Connecticut, 
  August 
  18 
  (same); 
  

   Colona, 
  Henry 
  County, 
  Illinois, 
  August, 
  J. 
  McNeill; 
  Vigo 
  County, 
  

   Indiana, 
  W. 
  S. 
  Blatchley; 
  Petroleum, 
  Ritchie 
  County, 
  West 
  Virginia 
  

   (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology). 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  Staten 
  Island, 
  New 
  York 
  (Davis), 
  New 
  

   Jersey 
  (Smith), 
  the 
  borders 
  of 
  Lake 
  Michigan, 
  in 
  Indiana 
  (Blatchley), 
  

   and 
  Nebraska 
  (Bruner), 
  the 
  last, 
  I 
  think, 
  by 
  mistake. 
  

  

  This 
  si)ecies 
  is 
  very 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  M. 
  luridus^ 
  but 
  differs 
  in 
  its 
  lack 
  

   of 
  any 
  projecting 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  furcula, 
  the 
  less 
  divergent 
  forks 
  of 
  the 
  

   cerci, 
  less 
  elevated, 
  apical 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  subgenital 
  plate 
  and 
  greater 
  

   nu\culation 
  of 
  the 
  tegmina. 
  

  

  I 
  first 
  observed 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  Sudbury, 
  Vermont, 
  in 
  August, 
  18G8, 
  

   abundant 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  groves 
  in 
  dry 
  upland 
  pastnres; 
  comi)ara- 
  

   tively 
  few 
  M.feiHurruhrioii 
  occurred 
  with 
  them, 
  the 
  latter 
  being 
  found 
  

   in 
  open 
  sunny 
  spots, 
  and 
  especially 
  in 
  hollows 
  in 
  the 
  lowlands. 
  

   McNeill, 
  who 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  to 
  find 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  West, 
  says 
  that 
  in 
  Illinois 
  

   ''it 
  is 
  restricted 
  to 
  the 
  tops 
  of 
  hills 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  ravines 
  which 
  are 
  

   too 
  barren 
  for 
  pasturage.'' 
  At 
  Provincetown, 
  Massachusetts, 
  I 
  found 
  

   it 
  at 
  the 
  sandy 
  edges 
  of 
  neglected 
  cranberry 
  beds. 
  According 
  to 
  

   Blatchley, 
  this 
  species 
  may 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  i)airing 
  time 
  ''among 
  the 
  leaves 
  

   and 
  branches 
  of 
  the 
  iron-weed."' 
  I 
  found 
  one 
  s[)ecimen 
  devouring 
  a 
  i)er- 
  

   ffctly 
  dry 
  and 
  dead 
  hickory 
  leaf. 
  At 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  August, 
  in 
  Vermont, 
  

   the 
  eggs 
  are 
  quite 
  undeveloped, 
  the 
  ovaries 
  lying 
  as 
  mere 
  films 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  