﻿NO. 
  1124. 
  BEVISIOX 
  OF 
  THE 
  MELAXOrLI—SCUDDEB. 
  363 
  

  

  W. 
  S. 
  Blatchley); 
  Michigan, 
  M. 
  Miles; 
  Bear 
  Lake, 
  Michigan 
  (r.S. 
  

   N.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  collectiou); 
  Lake 
  AViiiuipeg, 
  Manitoba; 
  Illinois, 
  I'hler, 
  

   Stromberg 
  (S. 
  Henshaw; 
  S. 
  H. 
  Scudder); 
  Moline, 
  Eock 
  Island 
  Connty, 
  

   Illinois, 
  McXeill; 
  Deni.son, 
  Crawford 
  County, 
  Iowa, 
  J. 
  A. 
  Allen; 
  Mis- 
  

   souri, 
  (U.S.^.M. 
  — 
  Eiley 
  collection); 
  Fort 
  Eobinson, 
  Dawes 
  County, 
  

   Nebraska, 
  Bruner 
  (same); 
  Colorado, 
  5,500 
  feet, 
  Morrison; 
  Cheyenne, 
  

   Laramie 
  County, 
  Wyoming, 
  O.sten 
  Sacken; 
  Evanston, 
  Uinta 
  County, 
  

   Wyoming, 
  6,800 
  feet, 
  August 
  6; 
  Steele, 
  Wyoming 
  (U.S.X.M.— 
  Riley 
  

   collection); 
  Calgary, 
  Alberta, 
  June 
  15 
  (S. 
  Henshaw); 
  British 
  Columbia 
  

   (same); 
  Vancouver 
  Island, 
  British 
  Columbia, 
  H. 
  Edwards; 
  Vancouver 
  

   Island, 
  British 
  Columbia, 
  Crotch 
  (Museum 
  Comparative 
  Zoology); 
  

   Wasliington, 
  Morrison 
  (S. 
  Henshaw); 
  Mount 
  Shasta 
  district, 
  California, 
  

   H. 
  Edwards; 
  Siss(»ns, 
  Siskiyou 
  County, 
  California 
  (Museum 
  Compara- 
  

   tive 
  Zoology); 
  Los 
  Angeles, 
  California, 
  Coquillett 
  (CJ.S.y.M. 
  — 
  Riley 
  

   collection). 
  

  

  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  reported 
  from 
  Hudson 
  Bay 
  (Walker); 
  Quebec, 
  

   Canada 
  (Provancher), 
  and 
  Carolina 
  (Burmeister, 
  Saussure). 
  Its 
  range 
  

   in 
  the 
  eastern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  is 
  therefore 
  from 
  Hudson 
  Bay 
  to 
  

   Korth 
  Carolina, 
  on 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Coast 
  from 
  Vancouver 
  to 
  southern 
  

   California, 
  while 
  in 
  the 
  interior, 
  south 
  of 
  Canada, 
  it 
  occurs 
  in 
  less 
  

   abundance 
  as 
  far 
  south 
  as 
  latitude 
  40° 
  or 
  thereabouts. 
  

  

  An 
  examination 
  of 
  three 
  females 
  in 
  Vermont 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  August 
  

   showed 
  thirty-nine 
  eggs 
  in 
  the 
  ovaries 
  on 
  one 
  side 
  and 
  thirty 
  on 
  the 
  

   other 
  of 
  the 
  first; 
  forty-five 
  on 
  one 
  side 
  and 
  forty-two 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  of 
  the 
  

   second; 
  and 
  thirty-eight 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  third, 
  the 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  

   eggs 
  varying 
  from 
  sixty-nine 
  to 
  eighty-seven. 
  A 
  fourth 
  female 
  had 
  no 
  

   eggs 
  in 
  the 
  ovaries, 
  but 
  the 
  abdomen 
  was 
  filled 
  with 
  a 
  filarian 
  worm 
  

   at 
  least 
  tiro 
  feet 
  long; 
  the 
  eggs 
  are 
  pale 
  yellow. 
  

  

  This 
  insect 
  is 
  very 
  fond 
  of 
  perching 
  by 
  the 
  roadside 
  on 
  the 
  broad 
  

   leaves 
  of 
  Inula 
  helenium, 
  sunning 
  itself. 
  

  

  126. 
  MELANOPLUS 
  BIVITTATUS. 
  

   (.Plate 
  XXIV. 
  tio-. 
  5.) 
  

  

  GrijUus 
  hivittatiis 
  Say, 
  Journ. 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sc. 
  Philad., 
  IV 
  (1825), 
  p. 
  308; 
  Ent. 
  

   N. 
  A., 
  ed. 
  LeC, 
  II 
  (1859), 
  p. 
  237. 
  

  

  Acridium 
  {Opsomala) 
  hivittatum 
  De 
  Haax, 
  Bijdr. 
  Keun. 
  Orth. 
  (1842), 
  p. 
  144. 
  

  

  Caloptenus 
  hivittatiis 
  Uhler 
  (pars) 
  Say, 
  Ent. 
  N. 
  A., 
  ed. 
  LeC, 
  II 
  (1859), 
  p. 
  238. 
  — 
  

   Scudder! 
  (pars), 
  Can. 
  Nat., 
  VII 
  (1862), 
  p. 
  287; 
  (pars), 
  Bost. 
  Journ. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  

   VII 
  (1862), 
  p. 
  465.— 
  Walsh, 
  Riley, 
  Amer. 
  Ent., 
  I 
  (1868), 
  p. 
  16.— 
  Packard, 
  

   Guide 
  Ins. 
  (1869). 
  p. 
  570.— 
  Thomas, 
  Proc. 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sc. 
  Pbilad., 
  1870 
  k^SIO), 
  

   p. 
  78; 
  Ann. 
  Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surr. 
  Terr., 
  II 
  (1871), 
  p. 
  265.— 
  Dodge, 
  Can. 
  

   Ent., 
  IV 
  (1872), 
  p. 
  15.— 
  Scudder, 
  Rep. 
  V. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Nebr. 
  (1872), 
  pp. 
  

   250, 
  259.— 
  Glover, 
  111. 
  N. 
  A. 
  Ent.. 
  Orth. 
  (1872), 
  pi. 
  i, 
  fig. 
  16.- 
  Thomas 
  (pars). 
  

   Rep. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  V 
  (1873), 
  p. 
  166; 
  Key 
  111. 
  Orth. 
  (1874-75), 
  

   p. 
  3.— 
  Scudder!, 
  Daws. 
  Rep. 
  Geol. 
  Rec. 
  49th 
  Par. 
  (1875), 
  p. 
  343.— 
  Riley, 
  Ann. 
  

   Rep. 
  Ins. 
  Mo., 
  VII 
  (1875), 
  pp. 
  124, 
  173, 
  fig. 
  34.— 
  Thomas, 
  Proc. 
  Dav. 
  Acad. 
  

   Nat. 
  Sc, 
  I 
  (1876^ 
  p. 
  261.— 
  Scudder!, 
  Bull. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  Terr., 
  II 
  (1876), 
  

   p. 
  261. 
  — 
  Whitman, 
  Grasshopper 
  (1876), 
  p. 
  19, 
  fig. 
  — 
  Uhler, 
  Bull. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  

  

  